Senior Manager - Business Sustainability at Forvis Mazars Group

Duties and Responsibilities

• The team lead for ESG DD service offering
• Providing technical consultation support to reporting and assurance teams
• Delivery of high-quality client and internal reports on the DD value chain
• Understand the investment cycle for ESG integration.
• Develop proposals and take an active role in the business development activities including prospect meetings, preparation of proposals and project plans.
• Support in the further development of our advisory/consulting offering
• Facilitate strategy sessions at C-Suite level.
• Research and project management essential
• Team and project management essential
• Conduct in-depth research and analysis on ESG standards, data, and trends.
• Analyse ESG data, evaluating its quality and performance to draw insight useful for investors and decision-makers as an authority on the subject.
• Create thought leadership and engagement tools, presentations, and documents for private market investors and other stakeholders.
• Engage with clients and partners in the financial sector to help them understand ESG.
• Ensure policy and regulations compliance and play a key role in advisory projects.
• Be creative in generating ideas and recommendations in pursuit of new and improved products and services.
• Be proactive and independent in task management and contributing to the objective sector and decision-maker as an authority on the subject.
• Have a strong analytic mindset and exceptional reporting and writing.
• Ensure policy and regulation compliance and play a key role in advisory projects.

Minimum Requirements

Candidate requirements:

• Relevant post-graduate qualification essential (sustainable development, business, finance or accounting)
• Knowledge of the universal frameworks on sustainability and integrated reporting frameworks and standards highly advantageous
• Confidently hold C-Level client engagements
• In addition to the technical qualifications, experience and/or qualifications in a business management-related field would be beneficial (e.g. financial, change management, strategy etc.)
• A minimum of 5 years focussed ESG DD experience for private and listed entities
• Commercially focused and adept in applying your sustainability knowledge to differing client situations.
• Good business developer with a good network within the ESG value chain
• Commitment to the B-BBEE transformation agenda
• Ambition to grow withing Mazars and participate in working groups

Essential competencies:

• Self-Starter and pragmatic leader
• Team player with good communication, interpersonal and client servicing skills
• Proven ability to manage people and clients
• Excellent technical ability on business transformation
• A strong support to the head of the department
• Strong project management, research, analytical and report writing skills
• Problem solver and effective, efficient decision maker
• Solutions Oriented
• Catalyst for changes
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment, shaping and reshaping teams / services to meet evolving needs