Sustainability Assistant Associate

Sustainability Assistant Associate; Matosinhos; On-site; EUR 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

PwC Services Portugal is seeking a Sustainability Assistant Associate to join our Matosinhos-based team. You will contribute to enhancing non-financial reporting through robust risk and controls analyses and support audit engagements for international clients.

The role offers exposure to ESG frameworks, macro trends, and a chance to work with a Centre of Excellence for ESG within PwC. Strong communication and MS Office proficiency are essential.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or equivalent; ESG specialization is a plus.
• Knowledge of sustainability frameworks and regulations (GRI, Taxonomy).
• Strong interest in ESG and sustainability topics.
• Excellent communication; adaptable to diverse profiles.
• Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Assist in advising clients to enhance non-financial reporting and governance.
• Participate in international client audits on sustainability information.
• Implement PwC ESG audit methodology and identify gaps.
• Seek opportunities across different environments and perspectives.
• Communicate findings in a structured and clear way.

Skills

Strong communication

Fluent English

ESG knowledge

Adaptability

Education

Master’s degree (ESG advantageous)

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Sustainability Assistant Associate

PwC Services Portugal (PSP) is a joint venture between PwC Luxembourg and PwC Portugal, serving as an integral extension of PwC Luxembourg. Our growing team operates as an acceleration center supporting PwC Luxembourg’s clients. Leveraging a unique pool of talented professionals based in Matosinhos, our operating model ensures scalability, consistency, and quality in service delivery by integrating seamlessly into PwC Luxembourg’s operations and addressing talent attraction challenges sustainably.

PSP provides a range of services, including Assurance Audit (spanning all industries, with a particular focus on Real Estate and Private Equity), Broader Assurance Services, Tax (including Managed Services, Corporate Tax, VAT, and Accounting), and Advisory (specializing in the Global Fund Industry and Real Estate Valuation).

Your mission:

• Be part of the teams who advise our clients, supporting them to bring their non-financial reporting to the appropriate level through an effective enhancement of their processes, risks and controls framework;
• Take part in audit engagements for international clients in various business sectors aiming at providing assurance on non-financial information related to Sustainability;
• Implement our audit methodology (understanding and analysing the client’s environment, building an independent expectation, comparing client’s assessment and independent expectation, identifying gaps, converting findings into practical solutions, drafting recommendations and specific reports );
• Seek and embrace opportunities which give exposure to different situations, environments and perspectives;
• Use straightforward communication, in a structured way, when connecting with others.

Be a part of our team where:

A career within the Sustainability Assurance, Reporting and Risks and Controls Team will provide you with the opportunity to provide a range of assurance services and business advice to a variety of clients from small, fast growing clients to large entities.

Our clients are often well known brands and many have broad international reach. We focus on using an in-house developed technology to minimise the level of manual testing ensuring you’ll focus on the most valuable areas of client service and on enhancing corporate governance and the reliability of our clients’ information.

We offer you:

• The possibility to discover and gain a deep expertise in various economic sectors and industries;
• An opportunity of working with the Centre of Excellence for the PwC Network in the ESG field, with a state of the art technology;
• The chance to work in a dynamic environment of multicultural teams while enjoying a competitive remuneration package and contributing to a societal impact;
• A flexible learning and development policy that will enable you to design and schedule your training plan based on your needs and personal aspirations;
• Full support in your plans of upgrading your skills through participation in external relevant courses, drafting of thought leadership publications or network driven working groups.
• Stimulating work environment with workplace flexibility, and an open minded team for new and innovative ideas.

Let’s talk about you. If you have …

• You have (or will soon have) a Master’s degree or equivalent - a master in ESG would represent an advantage.
• You have a good knowledge of or are really interested to know more of the sustainability frameworks, initiatives and regulations including the Taxonomy Regulation, Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) amongst others.
• You have a strong interest in ESG and Sustainability linked topics;
• Good communication skills, ability to adapt dynamically to various challenging situations and various profiles.
• You are fluent in English and any other language will be considered as an asset
• You have a good command of Microsoft Office

…You are the candidate we are looking for!