Sustainability Graduate Programme FY25

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa KPMG-SouthAfrica Full time
of the role and purpose of the job:

Our national Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Services practice provides strategic sourcing of Internal Audit; Enterprise Risk Management; Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Contract Compliance and Sustainability/ ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) services.


Sustainability has become critical to the success of businesses across all sectors.

KPMG's Sustainability team helps to support our clients drive the Sustainability agenda focusing on topics such as Sustainability Assurance, Impact Reporting and Decarbonization, amongst others.

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 Sustainability and its increasing importance for all organisations, there has been an increase in Sustainability considerations and inclusions in proposals and potential client liaisons throughout the business.

We are looking for dynamic, diverse graduates to join our Sustainability Services team.

Key responsibilities:

  • Executing Sustainability audit and assurance programmes, tests and procedures
  • Delivery of sustainability assurance and reporting engagements including preparation of adequate working papers to support Sustainability consulting outputs and conclusions
  • Identifying weak/problem areas and developing effective corrective action plans
  • Report writing and quality outputs
  • Client liaison and communication throughout various stages of a project
  • Undertaking site visits with the team
  • Strong technical analytical skills, methodical with strong emphasis on attention to detail
  • Well-developed investigative, evaluative and problem solving ability
  • Ability to multitask
  • Basic responsibilities in respect of supporting KPMG implementation of its ESG strategy including research and participation in development of Sustainability thought leadership/leading practice/proposals.
Skills and attributes required for the role:

  • Keen interest in ESG and Sustainability and appreciation of the United Nations sustainable development goals, Global Reporting Initiative Standards, other industry and technical developments, assurance and reporting framework would be advantageous
  • A high performing team player who can work independently and contribute to a positive and cohesive team environment
  • Strong attention to detail/methodical/analytical
  • Self-starter, presentable, professional and confident
  • Report writing, good communication and presentation skills
  • Target/results driven with a sense of urgency to get things done
  • Desire to improve the status quo. Persistent, persuasive and tenacious
  • Willing to travel

Ability to:

  • Be agile and adapt to changing environments, spot problems, and trace to root cause to recommend solutions
  • Develop innovative and creative solutions to problems/initiates smarter ways of working and improving processes
  • Work in a fast-paced, dynamic team and environment

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