Business Sustainability - Manager at Forvis Mazars Group

Job Description    

• To keep pace with Forvis Mazars’ international sustainability success, evolving regulation and market sentiment, Forvis Mazars in South Africa is seeking an experienced sustainability manager to join our team.
• This role presents an excellent opportunity to grow your career whilst helping our clients navigate and positively contribute to the sustainability agenda.
• We are looking for an experienced manager, specifically with a strong and proven record focus on ESG Due Diligences.  
• This role offers a great opportunity for an experienced manager to build the business, train the team, manage sustainability projects and extend their expertise to our broader offering.

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.
• Ensure policy and regulation compliance and play a key role in advisory projects.

Minimum Requirements    

Candidate requirements:

• 5-7+ 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)
• Knowledge of the universal frameworks on sustainability and integrated reporting frameworks and standards highly advantageous
• Confidently hold C-Level client engagements
• 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
• Ambition to grow withing Forvis Mazars and participate in working groups

Essential competencies:

• Self-Starter and pragmatic leader
• 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.

Closing Date    

• 2025/07/31