Consulting, Economics & Sustainability, Manager (KSA)

Why PwC

Established in the region for over 40 years, PwC Middle East employs over 6,000 people across 12 countries: Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, and the United Arab Emirates. Complementing our depth of industry expertise and breadth of skills is our sound knowledge of local business environments across the Middle East region. Our tailored solutions help our clients meet the challenges and opportunities of doing business in the Middle East market, and beyond.

BU Description

PwC is a global professional services firm that provides a range of Finance & Accounting consulting services to clients in various industries. Some of the finance & accounting consulting services that PwC offers include Accounting Advisory, Finance Transformation, Economics & Sustainability, AL&V, Government Reporting, and shift SAP. The services that PwC provides are designed to help clients improve their financial performance, manage risk, and meet regulatory requirements.

OU Description

You will be working within the Economics and Sustainability team (E&S). We are an analysis-driven team that uses economic principles and techniques to support the strategy and policy-making process. We help governments and private sector organisations make better decisions, grounded in robust and compelling evidence. We provide the necessary foresight that helps make and deliver critical business decisions and investments. We work across the Middle East for clients in a range of sectors, including but not limited to central government, real estate, energy and utilities, transport, and health.

As a Manager, 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:

• Proven experience in delivering high-quality ESG reporting transformation strategic engagements across multiple industries or co-developing reporting strategies to integrate ESG reporting considerations into wider ESG strategy.

• Experience in supporting clients through understanding the impact of the emerging regulatory and reporting agenda around ESG reporting transformation, with a focus on regional and global initiatives such as the ISSB standards, Regional Stock exchange guidelines, Government national standards on sustainability, mandatory reporting, and disclosure requirements under the different standards and frameworks.

• Strong working knowledge of current and emerging reporting frameworks and standards with particular focus on GRI but also including SASB, TCFD, and CSRD as you help clients deliver their ESG reporting.

• Experience in advising clients as they write and develop their ESG reports.
• Strong knowledge of current tools and trends for ESG reporting is a plus.
• Expand disclosure requirements into qualitative and quantitative reporting in alignment with standards.
• Track record of identifying market challenges and creating opportunities in ESG reporting transformation.
• You will be expected to actively support the Partner / Senior Manager within the ESG reporting transformation team working on business development in identifying and converting new opportunities across the region for ESG reporting transformation work.
• The role also requires collaborating with the capital markets team to help companies assess their state of ESG readiness as part of IPO readiness and more broadly to help clients implement ESG reporting.
• You will be required to demonstrate extensive project management skills related to projects, including developing project plans, budgets, and deliverables schedules.
• The role also requires that the candidate is able to collaborate with colleagues across different competencies within the firm regionally and globally within the ESG area and wider consulting/xLoS practices including a thorough understanding of ESG reporting transformation process and regulatory requirements and guidelines for ESG disclosures and reporting.
• Demonstrate flexibility to travel as client assignments require.
• Currently working as an experienced Manager in an accounting firm’s or part of the ESG reporting team.

The ESG reporting transformation team focuses on offering client-based solutions across strategy and reporting transformation to help clients determine their sustainability reporting priorities. The role focuses on helping clients align their ESG reporting frameworks and standards, explain how ESG issues/material topics affect the business and their impact on strategy, determining and identifying reporting formats and ESG disclosures, reporting data, regulations, and investor communication and reporting for debt issuers and impact on IFRS accounting. The candidate will preferably have experience internationally or in the region in delivering and implementing ESG reporting transformation projects and ESG strategy engagements and have demonstrated extensive experience in reviewing and assessing compliance with regional and international ESG reporting frameworks (GRI, SASB, TCFD, CSRD, and other standards) and guidelines to serve our clients including knowledge of emerging ISSB standards S1 and S2.

• Experience in economic impact analysis or related modelling techniques. Proficiency in MS Office and Google Suite is mandatory and experience in working with Stata, R, EViews, PowerBI, Tableau, or ThinkCell is preferred.
• Proven experience of delivering high-quality strategic engagements across multiple industries.
• The ability and willingness to travel within the Middle East or where the project requirements dictate.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts to a non-technical audience through written and oral communication.
• Strong interest and passion for developing, growing, and leading a team through advanced coaching and mentoring, as well as proactive knowledge sharing.

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics or Econometrics.
• Masters (preferable) in Economics and/or Public Policy.

Qualifications:

• 4-5+ years of experience in a similar industry/role.
• Experience in leading projects in one of the following areas: economic impact assessment, macroeconomic analysis or forecasting, public finance management, economic policy development.
• Experience in economic impact analysis or related modelling techniques.
• Proven ability to structure issues and use analytical skills to solve complex problems. Proven experience of delivering high-quality strategic engagements across multiple industries.