Job DescriptionTo keep pace with Mazars’ international sustainability success, evolving regulation and market sentiment, Mazars in South Africa is seeking an experienced sustainability senior 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 senior manager, specifically with a strong and proven record focus on ESG Due Diligences.
This role offers a great opportunity for an experienced senior manager to build the business, train the team, manage sustainability projects and extend their expertise to our broader offering.
Minimum RequirementsCandidate 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
- A minimum of 3 - 5 years in a Senior Manager role
- 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
