Forvis Mazars Sustainability Team is looking for a manager to actively contribute to the teams growth. The manager will contribute to multiple client engagements, including business development and team management. The candidate will join a diverse team of open-minded professionals with our consulting division.
Your why?
This is an opportunity for an experienced manager, to further develop their career managing consulting projects and working closely with leadership. The role lends to further professional development opportunities for a manager and is agile enough to allow for specialization due to its growth.
What will your day look like?
ESG regulations
- Advising clients on how to comply with ESG-related current or upcoming standards and regulations (including, but not limited to, IFRS S1 and S2, GRI and CSRD).
- Training various audiences on current or upcoming regulations and helping to design and implement frameworks and processes to ensure compliance with the regulations is achieved.
- Performing gap analyses on clients ESG compliance processes against regulations.
- Advising on how risk governance structure and risk management framework should be adapted to incorporate ESG risks.
- Implementing processes, controls, and systems to improve management of ESG (including climate) risks, comply with regulatory expectations, and align to industry best practices.
- Assisting with the identification, measurement, management, and quantification of ESG risks, in particular climate risks.
- Developing climate change related and ESG metrics.
- Assisting with climate stress tests and scenario analysis.
- Delivering benchmarking studies, identifying industrys best practices, conducting research.
- Performing materiality assessments and stakeholders engagement studies.
- Oversee any changes in regulation or practices that become necessary for them to maintain its ESG Strategy and suggest improvements when necessary.
- Developing and executing ESG/Sustainable finance KPIs and Goals.
- Developing climate-neutral and net-zero strategies.
- Creating and implementing ESG rating improvement programs.
- Supporting Circular Economy initiatives.
- Developing Sustainability Reporting and associated governance and production processes.
- Aligning with reporting frameworks such as SASB, UN Global Compact, GRI, TCFD, CDP, etc.
- Develop training programs for employees to integrate ESG and Sustainable finance into their workflows.
- Performing gap analysis and assessing the impact on existing processes against regulatory standards and stakeholders expectations.
- Assisting with data need identification and collection.
- Implementing processes and controls required to produce reporting.
- Supporting with reporting production.
- Staying up to date on ESG trends and developments and providing recommendations to the Sustainability teams at Mazars for enhancements in approaches.
- Producing thought-leadership publications, providing insights on the regulatory horizon and market-wide developments.
- A minimum of 12 months managerial experience in a sustainability role.
- Managing sustainability strategy and reporting engagements.
- Structuring, planning, and managing the execution of deliverables.
- Preparing, facilitating, documenting, and actively participating in meetings and workshops.
- Proven track record and strong sustainability report writing expertise.
- Experience in sustainability assurance and/or due diligence would be advantageous.
- 5+ years of relevant sustainability consulting experience.
- University Degree with a relevant environment, social science or sustainability-related major.
- Professional certifications in sustainable finance and or climate risk are considered as an asset (e.g., SCR, CCI, ESG Investing).
- Practical experience in sustainability, climate change strategy development stakeholder engagement, and change management.
- Understanding of key sustainability frameworks ISSB, GRI, IR and high-level knowledge of CSRD.
- A self-starter and motivated individual.
- Project management and time management skills.
- Emotional intelligence is key.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to discuss complex ideas, present innovative approaches to implementing project deliverables, and present in a coherent manner.
- Prepare client proposals.
- Mentor, coach, and develop more junior staff.
