Sustainability Services Manager

KPMG South Africa; Johannesburg; Sur place; ZAR 1 200 000 - 1 800 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

KPMG South Africa’s Sustainability Services team seeks a Manager to lead ESG assurance and advisory engagements from Johannesburg. The role involves coordinating a multidisciplinary team, applying established ESG methodologies, and ensuring high-quality client deliverables across sectors.

You will drive proposals, manage project timelines and budgets, and collaborate with other KPMG units to deliver integrated solutions. Strong knowledge of ISAE standards and IFRS S1/S2 is preferred.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with ISAE standards and ESG reporting requirements (ISAE 3000/3410).
• Experience delivering complex sustainability assurance and advisory engagements.
• Strong project management and client liaison capabilities.
• Excellent report writing and presentation skills.
• Proven track record in business development and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsabilités

• Supervise team to ensure high-quality testing, assurance fieldwork and deliverables.
• Oversee site visits and review work for quality and compliance.
• Lead client liaison and maintain relationships with internal/external clients.
• Manage budgets, timelines, billing, and project economics.
• Direct wider unit management activities including training and performance reviews.
• Drive opportunities for new work and translate proposals into projects.

Connaissances

ISAE 3000

ISAE 3410

IFRS S1

IFRS S2

Project management

MS Office

Report writing

Business development

Leadership

Formation

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

MBA or related master's degree

Description du poste

Function And Business Unit

Internal Audit and ERM: JHB, specific sub-unit: Sustainability Services

Description Of The Role And Purpose Of The Job

The Sustainability Services team provides ESG assurance and a wide range of ESG-related advisory services. Our multidisciplinary team works with a range of established methodologies to identify strengths, weaknesses, and risks in organisations’ interactions with society, and uses this knowledge to strengthen impact.

Job Title/position

Sustainability Services Manager (C3)

Number Of Positions

1

Function And Business Unit

Internal Audit and ERM: JHB, specific sub-unit: Sustainability Services

Description Of The Role And Purpose Of The Job

The Sustainability Services team provides ESG assurance and a wide range of ESG-related advisory services. Our multidisciplinary team works with a range of established methodologies to identify strengths, weaknesses, and risks in organisations’ interactions with society, and uses this knowledge to strengthen impact. Due to the heightened awareness around ESG and its increasing importance for all organisations, there has been an increase in ESG considerations and inclusions in proposals and client liaisons throughout the business. It is imperative that the Sustainability Services team works with teams across all business units to ensure that each of the relevant ESG pillars are being considered when offering services or delivering on work, which will ultimately result in increased value to the client. We provide assurance for corporate companies across a range of sectors, on a wide variety of topics or key performance areas, including (but not limited to) Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, waste, water, social-related spend, occupational health and safety (H&S) etc. Sustainability Services requires a Manager to work with the current leadership team to deliver on the upcoming workload of assurance and advisory projects. The Manager will need to project manage the assurance and reporting engagements and direct, guide and supervise the allocated team. The role entails management of all aspects of the end-to-end engagement process. Furthermore, there is a need to work with the leads across the KPMG Business units to build KPMG solutions in Assurance & Reporting and Advisory as well as prepare and deliver on proposals.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervision of the team to ensure testing, assurance fieldwork and deliverables are of the highest quality
• Overseeing site visits
• First review of work performed and documentation thoroughly and completely and in line with KPMG’s quality standard
• Report writing
• Team planning and management
• Client liaison, building and maintaining close working relationships with existing and potential internal and external clients
• Management and delivery of sustainability assurance and advisory engagements
• Oversight of financial elements of projects (budget determination and management, billing, overrun negotiations with clients, agreement of project timelines)
• Responsibilities for wider unit management within the Sustainability Services team (training, finance, planning, and performance management)
• Performance managing junior team members and ensuring that there are valuable and enriching development conversations that support their career progression

In Terms Of Both Assurance And Advisory Pillars

• Actively seeking opportunities for new work, proposal development and translating these into revenue-generating projects
• Proactively engaging with other teams within the wider KPMG to take advantage of cross selling opportunities whilst ensuring holistic client solutions
• Ongoing relationship building, ideas sharing and support of global pursuits with other KPMG international offices
• Ongoing personal and professional development to remain technically relevant and able to deploy applicable methodologies with confidence
• Quality review of client deliverables

Skills And Attributes Required For The Role

• Good understanding of assurance standards applied (ISAE 3000 and ISAE 3410 at minimum).
• Familiarity with the upcoming ISSA 5000 assurance standard as well as reporting and assurance requirements of IFRS S1 and S2 would be beneficial.
• Familiarity with KPMG sustainability assurance methodology would be beneficial.
• Proven track record of managing and delivering high quality, complex projects with commensurate deliverables
• Project management skills
• Fully Microsoft office competent, specifically Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Report writing and communication skills
• Business development skills }