SATIC - FS Sustainability Consultant

2 Months ago • 6-8 Years • Finance

Job Summary

Job Description

The SATIC - FS Sustainability Consultant role at PwC involves leading project teams in various sustainability reporting activities, including assessments, impact analyses, and implementation design. This includes working with clients in the financial services sector to navigate new regulations like TCFD, CSRD, SDR, and ISSB. Responsibilities encompass managing engagements, serving as a subject matter expert, building stakeholder relationships, and developing junior team members. The role requires experience in sustainability reporting, financial services, and project management, along with strong communication and client-facing skills. The position is crucial for helping clients meet their sustainability reporting challenges and build value for the future, working closely with the PwC UK Sustainability practice.
Must have:
  • Sustainability reporting experience
  • Financial services knowledge
  • Project management skills
  • Client management expertise
  • Strong communication skills
  • Knowledge of sustainability regulations (TCFD, CSRD, etc.)
Good to have:
  • Financial modeling skills
  • Data management skills
  • IFRS experience
  • Experience with sustainability strategy development

Job Details

Management Level

Senior Associate

Job Description & Summary

A career in Corporate Sustainability and Social Responsibility, within Internal Firm Services, will provide you with the opportunity to deliver positive social impact with measurable, long lasting results in the areas of youth education, social inclusion and the environment. You’ll focus on coordinating and overseeing the organisation’s charitable activities, designing and implementing programmes to ensure safe working conditions and compliance with all environmental regulations, and developing policies and programmes to ensure organisational awareness of government legislation and regulatory issues that affect the organisation.

Our Sustainability and Social Responsibility team works to enhance PwC’s brand and reputation as a socially responsible leader. As part of the team, you’ll help us plan initiatives that continue to make PwC a reliable and socially responsible partner in the accounting market place, our communities, and to our existing and potential clients.

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 PwC SATIC

PwC has recently launched the South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC).
SATIC is designed to innovate, build and deploy for our global clients across a range of technology and transformational solutions.
We are looking for a number of candidates who can support our global clients transform their approach to sustainability reporting. We'll need people who understand how technology can be used to support this reporting, but also candidates with backgrounds in sustainability and delivering change for clients to tackle the biggest challenges in society.
The Sustainability delivery centre will work closely with the PwC UK Sustainability practice, where you will play an integral part in engagements, working as part of an extension of the UK team. It presents an exciting opportunity to shape a meaningful career, contributing positively to some of the most pressing global challenges.
If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you.

Role Summary:

Joining PwC's Sustainability team in SATIC presents an exciting opportunity to shape a meaningful career, contributing positively to some of the most pressing global challenges.
Through speed, collaboration, and imaginative thinking we’re helping our clients to build trust in the climate transition by:
● enhancing credibility of non-financial sustainability and climate reporting,
● driving sustainability transformation programmes to ensure the transition to Net Zero
is fair.
We are also ensuring our own business is ready to meet the challenge ahead. As part of The New Equation, PwC is committing $12bn globally over the next 5 years, creating over 100,000 new jobs, with a specific emphasis on strengthening our Sustainability capabilities.


This role primarily focuses on Sustainability Reporting, providing an opportunity to work virtually with the PwC UK practice, to deliver a broad spectrum of sustainability reporting services to UK-based clients as well as clients around the world.
The next 24 months will be a critical phase for Sustainability reporting, given the numerous new and emerging Sustainability regulations expected to be applicable from 2024 onwards. As our Sustainability Reporting team expands, we are actively seeking talented professionals with a background in Sustainability Reporting or non-financial control
frameworks, to play a leading role in delivering complex engagements to senior client stakeholders.
We want to help our clients to tackle their Sustainability reporting challenges and to create value not only for today, but for the future.

Qualifications /
Certifications required:

We will consider a range of university degrees and professional qualifications in a relevant subject matter area. However, on top of this, candidates will be expected to demonstrate experience in client delivery across one or a number of sustainability reporting requirements.

Experience required:

● Experience aligned with the outlined activities

● Knowledge of asset managers, banks and insurers from working within the
business or providing professional services consulting support to firms in the
financial services sector.
● Experience of having worked on implementations of new financial services
regulations.
● Up to date with emerging regulations and standards such as TCFD, CSRD,
SDR, SS3/19, ISSB and global transition planning activities, such as the
Transition Plan Taskforce in the UK
● Project management skills with a demonstrated ability to work on multiple
engagements effectively
● Experience in a fast-paced environment and effective prioritisation skills
● Experience in managing and coaching teams
● Clear and effective communication skills: particularly in managing complex
stakeholder landscapes
● Ability to build key stakeholder relationships, both internally and with clients

Responsibilities of role:

Key Responsibilities:

Lead the project team in various Sustainability reporting activities, including:
● Current state Sustainability reporting assessments
● Regulatory impact assessments and gap analysis
● Sustainability reporting landscape reviews and horizon scanning
● Sustainability materiality assessments
● Sustainability reporting maturity assessments

● Sustainability reporting implementation design
● Sustainability reporting assurance readiness assessments
● Manage client-facing and internal engagements, overseeing progress and
budgets Serve as a subject matter expert on projects, specific topics, or reporting frameworks
Stay updated on the latest reporting developments through continuous research Manage day-to-day relationships with key client and internal stakeholders Identify new client opportunities and contribute to the development of sales and marketing materials, including proposals and thought leadership
Contribute to the further development of our Sustainability Reporting proposition and approach, including digital assets


People Responsibilities:


● Develop junior team members through effective coaching, supervision, and
training
● Practise upward management and communication
● Foster a positive and inclusive team environment

Desirable skill sets include:
 

● Demonstrable financial services expertise including qualified accountants with experience auditing financials services companies or investment funds
● Development of sustainability strategy and models to support::
○ Economic and financial modelling skills
○ Data collection and management
○ Financial accounting and annual reporting under IFRS

❖ Industry experience required:
 

We work across all industries - public sector, private sector and financial services clients,
so value experience in one or more of these industries.

Travel Requirements

Up to 20%

Available for Work Visa Sponsorship?

No

Job Posting End Date

December 31, 2024


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