Sustainability Services Manager

2 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa Pro Tem Full time

The Sustainability Services team provides assurance and a wide range of 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 potential 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 is being considered when offering services or delivering on work, which will ultimately result in increased value to the client.

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.

Key responsibilities:

- Management and delivery of sustainability assurance and reporting engagements
- Oversee/ conduct site visits with the team
- Review of work performed
- Report writing
- Quality review of client deliverables
- Team planning and management
- Client liaison
- Oversight of financial elements of projects (budget determination and management, billing, overrun negotiations with clients)
- Responsibilities for wider unit management within the Sustainability Services team (training, finance, planning, and performance management)
- Supporting and mentoring junior staff, both technically and personally

Minimum requirements:

- Undergraduate degree in either commerce, accounting, economics, development economics, finance, social science, business administration or equivalent.
- Postgraduate diploma / degree is advantageous.
- 3- 5 years’ experience within Assurance and Reporting of non-financial/ ESG information
- 2- 3 years project management experience in a similar environment.
- Detailed knowledge and experience in performing and managing external assurance and reporting engagements.
- Detailed knowledge regarding assurance standards and ESG reporting criteria.
- Experience in advisory engagements would be advantageous.
- An understanding of the broader services offered by the Company in order to identify internal and external business opportunities across advisory, and the ability to work across teams / business units is essential.
- Experience in people management and business development is necessary.



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