PMO Sustainability

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career in our Sustainability and Climate Change will provide you with the opportunity to help clients seize essential advantages by working alongside business leaders to solve their toughest problems and capture their greatest opportunities. We work with some of the world’s largest and most complex companies to understand their unique business issues and opportunities in an ever changing environment. We help create sustainable change by stimulating innovation, unlocking data possibilities, navigating risk and regulatory complexity, optimising deals, and aligning costs with business strategy to create a competitive advantage.

Sustainability and climate change are at the top of the agenda for many organisations, but many are at different stages in understanding how they should respond. As part of our team, you’ll help our clients balance competing economic, social and environmental goals. Our advice goes right to the heart of policy and strategy, addressing everything from the international development policies of major donors to changing regulations and consumer preferences, to the security of supply chains, climate risk and the challenges of urbanisation.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Use feedback and reflection to develop self awareness, personal strengths and address development areas.
• Delegate to others to provide stretch opportunities, coaching them to deliver results.
• Demonstrate critical thinking and the ability to bring order to unstructured problems.
• Use a broad range of tools and techniques to extract insights from current industry or sector trends.
• Review your work and that of others for quality, accuracy and relevance.
• Know how and when to use tools available for a given situation and can explain the reasons for this choice.
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives.
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when influencing and connecting with others.
• Able to read situations and modify behavior to build quality relationships.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

About the team

The Change Cluster is made up of three key areas - Supply Chain and Operations, Change Managed Capacity and Change Managed Services. We provide hands-on delivery capability, backed-up by tried and tested technology, methodologies and infrastructure to assist clients with their projects and programmes using a model that is cost effective and scalable.

About the role

Overall this role delivers project outputs. Working with clients to develop their sustainability strategy, the programme needed to effect change and to support clients with running the programme needed to achieve their sustainability targets. Working to set the project up for success, working the schedule, managing risks and issues, exploiting opportunities and solving problems as they arise.
Critical to this role is managing stakeholders, internally to PwC, with our clients and externally.

Skills and Experience

● You will have previous Project Management or Assistant Project Management experience covering the entire Project Lifecycle with direct experience.
● Ability to apply a logical, solution based and analytical approach to work.
● You will have a track record of engaging with stakeholders and developing those relationships.
● You will have the ability to engage not just on the how, but also on the why with the courage to challenge.
● Excellent project planning skills and experience of using project management and planning tools such as MS-Project.
● Comprehensive working knowledge of the MS Office and/or Google Workspace (formally GSuite), and able to demonstrate a high proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
● If you have a professional qualification such as PRINCE2, APMP, PMP, Agile, Scrum, this is great but not essential.

Desirable Experience

● Understanding of sustainability regulations & ability research present options
● Economic and financial modelling skills
● Data collection and management
● Financial accounting
● International funding grant application and reporting
● Carbon modelling & accounting
● Build/construction environment skills (infrastructure, real estate and urban development,
energy efficiency, renewables, building retrofit)

Key Responsibilities

● Working directly with our internal stakeholders and external clients to ensure effective project delivery.
● Support in scoping the high level requirements of projects and the development and preparation of Business Cases.
● Development and maintenance of planning documentation including Project Plans, Plan in a Page, Milestone Plans etc.
● Managing the Project Budget/Finances in accordance with contractual agreements.
● Providing input into Project Reports including but not limited to Highlight Reports, Working Group Packs etc.
● Development & Management of RAID Artefacts, including the identification and management of Risks, Issues etc.
● Support the management of resources and suppliers.
● Development and management of Change Controls Procedures.
● Support the Closure / Transition of the project to BAU.
● Production of presentations and excel based Management Information (MI) for senior management/stakeholders.
● Utilising appropriate and repeatable technology solutions to support high quality, efficient outcomes

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

November 8, 2024