Business Sustainability - Manager

Job Description

To keep pace with Forvis Mazars’ international sustainability success, evolving regulation and market sentiment, Forvis Mazars in South Africa is seeking an experienced sustainability manager to join our team. This role presents an excellent opportunity to grow your career whilst helping our clients navigate and positively contribute to the sustainability agenda. We are looking for an experienced manager, specifically with a strong and proven record focus on ESG Due Diligences.

This role offers a great opportunity for an experienced manager to build the business, train the team, manage sustainability projects and extend their expertise to our broader offering.

Duties and Responsibilities

• The team lead for ESG DD service offering
• Providing technical consultation support to reporting and assurance teams
• Delivery of high-quality client and internal reports on the DD value chain
• Understand the investment cycle for ESG integration.
• Develop proposals and take an active role in the business development activities including prospect meetings, preparation of proposals and project plans.
• Support in the further development of our advisory/consulting offering
• Facilitate strategy sessions at C-Suite level.
• Research and project management essential
• Team and project management essential
• Conduct in-depth research and analysis on ESG standards, data, and trends.
• Analyse ESG data, evaluating its quality and performance to draw insight useful for investors and decision-makers as an authority on the subject.
• Create thought leadership and engagement tools, presentations, and documents for private market investors and other stakeholders.
• Engage with clients and partners in the financial sector to help them understand ESG.
• Ensure policy and regulations compliance and play a key role in advisory projects.
• Be creative in generating ideas and recommendations in pursuit of new and improved products and services.
• Be proactive and independent in task management and contributing to the objective sector and decision-maker as an authority on the subject.
• Ensure policy and regulation compliance and play a key role in advisory projects.

Minimum Requirements

Candidate requirements:

• 5-7+ years of relevant sustainability consulting experience
• University Degree with a relevant environment, social science or sustainability-related major
• Professional certifications in sustainable finance and or climate risk are considered as an asset (e.g., SCR, CCI, ESG Investing)
• Knowledge of the universal frameworks on sustainability and integrated reporting frameworks and standards highly advantageous
• Confidently hold C-Level client engagements
• Commercially focused and adept in applying your sustainability knowledge to differing client situations.
• Good business developer with a good network within the ESG value chain
• Ambition to grow withing Forvis Mazars and participate in working groups

Essential competencies:

• Self-Starter and pragmatic leader
• Project management and time management skills.
• Emotional intelligence is key.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to discuss complex ideas, present innovative approaches to implementing project deliverables, and present in a coherent manner.
• Prepare client proposals.
• Mentor, coach, and develop more junior staff.