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Job Description
- We are seeking a Manager – Sustainability Programmes to support the delivery of donor-funded sustainability and energy transition initiatives. This presents an exciting opportunity to work on high-impact sustainability programmes across Africa with exposure to global donor institutions and development initiatives. We are often key in the Involvement in large-scale, meaningful energy transition and infrastructure projects. This role offers the opportunity to build expertise in a fast-growing international development and sustainability domain.
This is a high-impact role operating within the International Affairs & Development (IAD) space, focused on:
- Delivering technical assistance programmes
- Supporting large-scale international development initiatives
- Contributing to proposal development and programme funding efforts
- The role is ideal for candidates with experience in international development, sustainability advisory, or donor-funded programme delivery, who are passionate about driving environmental and societal impact.
Key Responsibilities:
Programme Delivery (Technical Assistance)
- Support the delivery of multi-year donor-funded sustainability programmes
- Provide technical assistance across:
- Energy transition
- Environmental and sustainability initiatives (e.g. climate impact, GHG reduction, urban resilience planning)
- Infrastructure-related programmes (e.g. energy, water, municipalities)
- Contribute to ensuring programmes deliver measurable environmental and operational impact
Proposal Development & Bid Support
- Support the preparation of high-quality proposals for donor-funded programmes
- Apply donor-specific frameworks, language, and compliance requirements
- Contribute to large-scale bids for international development projects
Stakeholder Engagement
Engage with:
- International donor organisations (e.g. development agencies, multilateral institutions)
- Public sector stakeholders
- Internal consulting teams
- Support alignment between programme objectives, funding requirements, and delivery outcomes
Sustainability & Energy Transition Advisory
- Contribute to projects focused on:
- Energy transition and decarbonisation
- Climate and environmental sustainability
- Urban resilience planning (adaptation and resilience)
- Support development of practical, impact-driven solutions for clients
Qualifications
Minimum:
- Tertiary degree in Environmental Sciences, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Marketing Science, Engineering, Business Administration or related field
- Professional Certifications e.g. Professional Natural Scientist (SACNASP), Certified Risk Management Professional (IRMSA), or equivalent
Preferred:
- An MBA or Masters in a relevant field is an advantage
Experience
- Experience in international development / donor-funded programmes
- Exposure to working with:
- Donor institutions (e.g. development agencies, multilateral organisations)
- Government or public sector programmes
- Proven experience in:
- Proposal writing / bid development
- Programme or project delivery
- Background in:
- Sustainability, environmental management, or energy-related fields
Preferred
- Experience with:
- Technical assistance programmes
- Energy transition or climate-related initiatives
- Understanding of:
- Donor funding processes and compliance requirements
- Exposure to:
- Financial modelling or programme costing (supporting level)
Key Skills & Competencies
- Demonstrated ability to deliver strategic insights, manage client relationships, and drive profitable engagements
- Strong proposal writing and structuring capability
- Understanding of donor programme frameworks and requirements
- Ability to work across multi-stakeholder environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Interest in impact-driven, sustainability-focused work
- Strong leadership, sales, and negotiation abilities
- Exceptional communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Passion for developing talent and building inclusive, high-performing teams
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Job Description
- The Senior Manager – Decarbonisation / Net Zero will originate, shape and deliver client engagements that support organisations across Africa to set credible net zero strategies, decarbonise operations and value chains, and mobilise capital for the transition. The role combines deep technical capability with strong client leadership, project delivery excellence, and practice-building responsibilities. The role sits within Deloitte Africa Consulting Services in Strategy & Business Design Offering within the Sustainability Team.
- Our multidisciplinary team spans across the continent and combines strategic foresight with rigorous analysis to drive growth, manage risks, and enhance industry performance.
- We empower our clients to navigate complex challenges and uncover opportunities to create value and competitive advantage while also building organisational trust and resilience for the long run.
As a Senior Manager, you will:
- Lead multidisciplinary teams to deliver tailored strategic solutions for our clients.
- Support Service Line Leadership in delivering projects and engagements.
- Develop high-performing teams, foster collaboration, and set the direction for exceptional client service.
- Build strong client relationships and identify new business opportunities.
- Drive the sales cycle and shape proposal responses including resourcing, budgeting and quality control.
- Champion Deloitte’s purpose, values, and transformation agenda.
Key Responsibilities:
Client advisory & delivery
- Lead end-to-end delivery of decarbonisation and net zero programmes, including diagnostics, strategy, roadmaps, implementation support and benefits tracking.
- Advise executives on target-setting and transition planning aligned to leading frameworks (e.g., SBTi, TCFD/ISSB, GHG Protocol), tailored to African market realities.
- Develop marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs), decarbonisation levers, and investment cases across Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.
- Support clients with carbon accounting approaches, data requirements, controls and governance (working with audit/risk counterparts where relevant).
- Integrate climate risk, adaptation and resilience considerations into transition strategies where material.
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams (energy, engineering, finance, digital, supply chain) to deliver integrated outcomes.
Business development
- Own or co-own priority accounts and drive pipeline through client relationship management, opportunity identification and value proposition development.
- Lead proposal development (problem framing, approach, pricing, resourcing) and contribute to contract negotiation and mobilisation.
- Represent Africa Consulting Services in client forums, conferences and industry working groups to build market presence.
Practice & capability building
- Build and mentor high-performing teams; coach managers and consultants on both technical and consulting skills.
- Develop reusable assets (methodologies, tools, benchmarks, training) to scale delivery quality and efficiency.
- Contribute to thought leadership relevant to Africa’s transition (power, hard-to-abate sectors, nature, finance, just transition).
- Promote quality, risk management and independence considerations across engagements.
Typical engagements (illustrative)
- Net zero strategy, transition planning and implementation roadmaps for corporates and public sector entities.
- Emissions baseline development and improvement plans for GHG data, systems and governance.
- Decarbonisation opportunity assessment and MACC for industrial operations and portfolios.
- Scope 3 hotspot analysis, supplier engagement strategy and value chain interventions.
- Apply risk management tools and techniques to drive operational efficiencies that derive intended climate benefits e.g. GHG emission reduction.
- Lead end-to-end delivery of decarbonisation and net zero programmes, including diagnostics, strategy, roadmaps, implementation support and benefits tracking.
- Advise executives on target-setting and transition planning aligned to leading frameworks (e.g., SBTi, TCFD/ISSB, GHG Protocol), tailored to African market realities.
- Develop marginal abatement cost curves (MACCs), decarbonisation levers, and investment cases across Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions.
- Support clients with carbon accounting approaches, data requirements, controls and governance (working with audit/risk counterparts where relevant).
- Integrate climate risk, adaptation and resilience considerations into transition strategies where material.
- Lead multi-disciplinary teams (energy, engineering, finance, digital, supply chain) to deliver integrated outcomes.
Business development
- Own or co-own priority accounts and drive pipeline through client relationship management, opportunity identification and value proposition development.
- Lead proposal development (problem framing, approach, pricing, resourcing) and contribute to contract negotiation and mobilisation.
- Represent Africa Consulting Services in client forums, conferences and industry working groups to build market presence.
Practice & capability building
- Build and mentor high-performing teams; coach managers and consultants on both technical and consulting skills.
- Develop reusable assets (methodologies, tools, benchmarks, training) to scale delivery quality and efficiency.
- Contribute to thought leadership relevant to Africa’s transition (power, hard-to-abate sectors, nature, finance, just transition).
- Promote quality, risk management and independence considerations across engagements.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Tertiary degree in Environmental Sciences, Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, Computer Science, Marketing Science, Engineering, Business Administration or related field.
- An MBA or Masters in a relevant field is an advantage.
- Professional Certifications e.g. Professional Natural Scientist (SACNASP), Certified Risk Management Professional (IRMSA) or equivalent.
Experience:
- 7–10 years’ experience, including at least 5 years in a client-facing and management role in Strategic Advisory.
- Experience with a Tier-One Professional Services Firm and/or blue-chip organisation.
- Deep knowledge in one or more industry sectors (e.g., Energy, Mining, Government, Donor Funded Infrastructure Programmes e.g. Just Energy Transition).
- Proven track record in leading and managing strategic projects and teams.
Skills & Competencies:
- Strong leadership, sales, and negotiation abilities.
- Exceptional communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver strategic insights, manage client relationships, and drive profitable engagements.
- Passion for developing talent and building inclusive, high-performing teams.
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Job Description
Engagement lifecycle & delivery management (IT Internal Audit / Technology Assurance / Technology Advisory)]
- Proven track record to scope, plan, execute & manage, report & conclude on Internal Audit engagements that specialise in IT.
- Proven track record to deliver on Assurance and Advisory Internal Audit engagements by identifying risks, performing testing, researching governing policies / regulations, and developing reports.
- Ensures findings and recommendations are aligned with the audit objectives by keeping in mind the engagement business context and also Board Expectations (ARC).
- Demonstrated technical skills and methodology application.
- Able to develop customised audit programs for ad hoc systems.
- Ability to perform specialised IT internal audit services, such as: IT governance, cloud risk, project assurance, emerging technology assurance and ESG
- Experience in performing project audits, systems post-implementation reviews (incl. data migration reviews) for multiple systems (i.e: SAP ECC / SAP S/4 / Oracle / Coupa / Sage).
- Proven track record to run end-to-end ITGC and ACR audits independently.
- Ability to independently lead multiple concurrent IT Internal Audit engagements while maintaining quality, timelines, and stakeholder expectations.
- Ability to translate business objectives and strategic risks into a clear, risk-based IT audit approach.
- Ability to manage engagement risk, including scope creep, dependency risks, and data availability constraints.
Risk, controls & assurance standards expertise]
- Uses industry leading frameworks and tools to analyse client’s documentation and identify risks that require control assurance.
- Tests validity of client’s historical financial and non-financial information, leveraging relevant standards (e.g. ISAE 3000), as appropriate.
- Ability to execute on Third party assurance engagements (ISAE3402 / SOC) and unstructured controls advisory projects.
- Articulates client’s regulatory framework by leveraging Deloitte’s proprietary approaches and applicable audit standards and guidelines.
- A good understanding of how to link risks and controls to ensure test steps and controls and risks all speak to each other.
Technical IT & systems knowledge]
- Demonstrated knowledge of ERP systems including SAP, Oracle etc.
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience of key databases (SQL, Oracle) and understanding of the associated security issues and vulnerabilities.
- Demonstrated knowledge and technical skills on “core operating systems” e.g. Windows, UNIX, etc.
- Ability to perform focused IT reviews including data conversion, interface reviews, segregation of duties and SAP authorisations.
- Ability to research “unknown” systems or audit in-house developed systems
- Experience analysing system evidence independently (configurations, logs, extracts) rather than relying solely on management-prepared documentation.
Digital, emerging technology & unstructured advisory capabilities]
- Fluent on Digital Risk and highly knowledgeable on Emerging Technologies.
- Ability to execute on unstructured controls advisory engagements including Cloud, Payments, IT risk & governance, RPA etc.
- Developed skills in Agile and DevOps methodologies
- Developing Digital fluency and knowledge on Emerging technologies, including Cloud, RPA, AI, etc.
- Understanding of control considerations in cloud-native environments (e.g. shared responsibility models).
- Awareness of ethical, data privacy, and model governance risks relating to AI and advanced analytics.
Sales, business development & client relationship management]
- Ability to proactively identify client pain points and translate them into clearly articulated engagement opportunities.
- Experience contributing to proposal development, including scope definition, effort estimation, and risk considerations.
- Ability to position IT Internal Audit and digital risk services as enablers of business value, not only compliance.
- Ability to identify cross-service collaboration opportunities within broader assurance or advisory offerings.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Commerce Information Systems and / or Internal Auditing, Bachelor of Science Computer Science
- Relevant Degree, Honours or post graduate diploma preferably
- Professional certifications such as CISA and CRISC + relevant CPD
- 4–7 years in a client facing role
- 4–7 years IT Audit, Third Party Assurance and IT Controls Advisory experience
Professional Development:
- Ability to form a core technology and data risk skillset through proactively conducting research.
- Understands and applies major program management approaches and practices (e.g., SDLC, ITIL).
- Develops strong knowledge of technology and data management frameworks (Technology Risk, Data Risk, Cyber Risk Maturity Model).
- Becomes familiar with technology and data risk, as well as industry-specific regulations; keeps up to date with emerging trends.
- Demonstrated adaptability in learning new technologies, tools, and methodologies as client needs evolve.
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Job Description
- To support the Transfer Pricing Tax Senior Team in providing professional and robust tax and legal advice on all local and international tax TP matters. Focus on the management and delivery of client engagements, as well as sales and practice development. Develop high-performing people and teams, leading and supporting them to make an impact that matters, and setting the direction to deliver exceptional client service
Qualifications
- Bachelor degree in Law, Economics or Accounting
- CA (SA)
- Or other relevant qualification and/or experience
- 7 years’ work experience
Preferred
- Postgraduate qualification in Taxation or Economics
- 5-7 years Transfer Pricing consulting experience
Leadership / Behavioural Capabilities
- Competitive Edge - Applies deep knowledge of disruptive trends and competitor activity to drive continuous improvement
- Living our Purpose - Acts as a role model and inspires others to embrace and live our purpose and values
- Influence - Builds deep relationships across a diverse network and uses a flexible influencing style to gain buy-in and drive impact
- Performance Drive - Creates opportunities to drive impact; anticipates client needs and delivers superior results by leveraging each person’s strengths to build high performing teams across businesses and borders
- Strategic Direction – Translates broader strategy into a compelling team vision and goals; aligns the team and sets priorities to achieve objectives
- Talent Development - Actively contributes to building the talent pipeline; creates a talent experience that attracts, develops and retains top talent and high performing teams
- Inspirational Leadership - Establishes a strong leadership brand and inspires followership through passion, integrity, and appreciation of others
Core Professional Technical Capabilities
- Strategic Impact - Supports the implementation of strategy of the Service Line / Business Area in relation to specific area of expertise
- Budgets / Profitability - Manages margins effectively through accurate budgeting, pricing and profitability management on engagements
- Tax Laws and Rules - Leads client projects and solves complex technical/business issues through innovative approaches while providing direction to others
- Delivery Excellence - Takes ultimate responsibility to meet project objectives within established budget and timeline, optimizing project profitability
- Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving - Facilitates innovative solutions to client problems and drives changes to processes or ways of working based on new trends/recent developments
- Technology Tools and Solutions - Demonstrates advanced knowledge of service line or market specific technology solutions
Specialized Technical Capabilities
- Economic Analysis – Evaluates and recommends modelling strategies that balance reliability, project objectives and shares strategy implementation plan with client
- Functional & Risk Analysis – Reviews the functional and risk write-ups and identifies how analysis can be structured for client
- Technical Knowledge of Transfer Pricing & Related Rules – Applies detailed knowledge of local or domestic TP and penalty rules, TP trends and tax authority positions to lead client or internal discussions on complex technical issues
- Advanced technical knowledge in Transfer Pricing as well as Business and Industry
Knowledge of:
- Economic principles
- International Tax
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Job Description
- Critical to the success of the Senior Manager role will will be to drive business development initiatives by enhancing our business capacity and capabilities, directly supporting our efforts to win new business. Supports service line and business area leadership in the implementation of strategic plans through the effective management of team/s. Build high performing teams to deliver in client engagements. Translate broader strategy into a compelling team vision and goals. Apply deep knowledge of disruptive trends and competitor activity to drive continuous improvement.
Strategic Impact
- Support the implementation of strategy of the Service Line and Business Area in relation to specific area of expertise
- Implement the strategy within area of responsibility by conforming to plans set by leadership in all engagements / projects including:
- Revenue targets
- Talent management
- Communication to teams
- Tracking of plans in engagements / projects
- Actively identify sales opportunities in broader market
- Contribute to preparation of proposals/tenders and presentations
- Participate in sales presentations and client negotiation teams for new and retained business
- Grow market network with key players and build long-term relationships
- Build relationships across Deloitte service lines for cross-selling opportunities and combined engagement pursuits
- Identify innovative solutions on projects / engagements to enhance / renew service offerings to client
- Drive own client portfolio and profitable book of business (depending on SL/BU)
Budgets / Profitability
- Resource engagement teams with suitable talent, balancing correct levels and numbers and recruiting as necessary
- Manage margins effectively through accurate budgeting, pricing and profitability management on engagements
- Monitor that time and expenses to engagements are recorded and submitted weekly
- Oversee WIP on projects / engagements and ensure billings are timeously done and collections followed up
- (May) negotiate pricing for engagements to ensure profitability whilst maintaining client interests
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
Desired Qualifications
- CA(SA)
- Certified Internal Auditor
Minimum Experience
- 10 - 12+ years relevant experience in an auditing/finance/control’s role
- Previous Big 4 experience
- Previous experience in a client facing role; with 5 years in a management role managing audit teams or complex engagements
Desired Experience
- Ability to lead risk-based audits end-to-end
- Engage at executive/board level
- Good understanding of banking and/or insurance regulatory environment
- Experience in internal audit or controls related roles
- Out of the box strategic thinker who is able to execute once off strategic projects for clients
- Developing strategic relationships with senior client stakeholders and driving business development
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