ESG Consulting (Integrated ESG Advisory & Transformation), Manager

KPMG Services Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

KPMG Services Pte Ltd in Singapore seeks an experienced Manager to lead its ESG Consulting team, combining deep ESG domain knowledge with broad advisory capabilities.

You will direct client engagements across ESG topics, translating priorities into practical solutions and measurable business outcomes with multidisciplinary teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in ESG consulting, sustainability strategy, reporting and regulatory requirements.
• Ability to lead client engagements and manage teams across projects.
• Strong problem structuring and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead ESG consulting engagements across sustainability strategy, reporting, transition planning and risk areas.
• Own day-to-day client relationships and guide stakeholders through complex ESG issues.
• Structure ambiguous problems and drive from analysis to recommendations and implementation.
• Maintain engagement quality with robust, practical outcomes.

Skills

ESG

Client management

Engagement leadership

Regulatory awareness

Problem solving

Job description

We are looking for an experienced Manager to join our ESG Consulting team, combining strong ESG domain experience with broad consulting and advisory capability.

You will lead client engagements across a range of ESG and sustainability topics, helping clients navigate complex requirements, address broader business and transformation challenges, and translate sustainability priorities into practical solutions and business outcomes.

The role requires someone who can operate across both depth and breadth: sufficiently rigorous to navigate complex ESG, regulatory, reporting, finance and risk considerations, while also being comfortable with ambiguity, structuring broader enterprise problems and bringing together multidisciplinary capabilities to develop integrated solutions.

As a Manager, you will be expected to lead engagements and teams, manage client relationships and engagement economics, contribute to business development, and help build the capabilities and propositions of the ESG Consulting practice.

What you will do -

Lead client engagements

• Lead ESG consulting engagements across areas such as sustainability strategy and transformation, ESG reporting and disclosure, transition planning, climate risk, sustainable finance, sustainable supply chains, circularity, ESG risk and related areas.
• Own day-to-day client relationships and guide client stakeholders through complex ESG and business issues.
• Structure complex and ambiguous problems, establish clear approaches and guide engagement teams from analysis through recommendation and implementation.
• Maintain oversight of engagement quality, ensuring conclusions and recommendations are robust, practical and appropriate to the client's circumstances.

Translate complexity into practical solutions

• Navigate ESG standards, regulatory and reporting requirements, methodologies and relevant finance and risk considerations, exercising judgement on their implications for clients.
• Translate technical or regulatory requirements into practical business responses rather than stopping at interpretation or assessment.
• Connect sustainability considerations to broader enterprise priorities, including strategy, finance, operations, supply chain, technology, workforce, risk and business performance.
• Translate strategies and recommendations into practical roadmaps, operating changes, implementation plans and measurable outcomes.

Develop integrated solutions

• Look beyond individual ESG issues to understand the broader client problem and identify opportunities for enterprise transformation and value creation.
• Bring together capabilities across consulting, advisory and specialist teams to develop holistic client solutions.
• Work effectively across functions and geographies, mobilising the appropriate expertise around the client’s needs.
• Synthesise different perspectives and disciplines into a coherent client proposition and delivery approach.

Manage commercially successful engagements

• Manage engagement scope, budgets, resourcing, timelines and delivery economics, balancing quality and client outcomes with profitable delivery.
• Anticipate and actively manage scope changes, delivery risks and resource requirements.
• Deploy teams effectively and make sound decisions on how work should be delivered.
• Maintain a strong understanding of the client’s business and commercial context, ensuring our work addresses issues that matter to the client.