Sustainability Graduate Programme - JHB FY27, Johannesburg

Job Description - Sustainability Graduate Programme - JHB FY27 (2600001F) Job Number: 2600001F

Sustainability has become critical to the success of businesses across all sectors. KPMG’s Sustainability team helps to support our clients drive the Sustainability agenda focusing on topics such as Sustainability Assurance, Impact Reporting and Decarbonization, amongst others. Our multidisciplinary team works with a range of established methodologies to identify strengths, weaknesses, and risks in organisations’ interactions with society, and uses this knowledge to strengthen impact.

Due to the heightened awareness around Sustainability and its increasing importance for all organisations, there has been an increase in Sustainability considerations and inclusions in proposals and potential client liaisons throughout the business. We are looking for dynamic, diverse graduates to join our Sustainability Services team.

Key responsibilities:

Executing Sustainability audit and assurance programmes, tests and procedures

Delivery of sustainability assurance and reporting engagements including preparation of adequate working papers to support Sustainability consulting outputs and conclusions

Identifying weak/problem areas and developing effective corrective action plans

Report writing and quality outputs

Client liaison and communication throughout various stages of a project

Undertaking site visits with the team

Strong technical analytical skills, methodical with strong emphasis on attention to detail

Well-developed investigative, evaluative and problem-solving ability

Ability to multitask

Basic responsibilities in respect of supporting KPMG implementation of its ESG strategy including research and participation in development of Sustainability thought leadership/leading practice/proposals

Skills and attributes required for the role:

Keen interest in ESG and Sustainability and appreciation of the United Nations sustainable development goals, Global Reporting Initiative Standards, other industry and technical developments, assurance and reporting framework would be advantageous

A high performing team player who can work independently and contribute to a positive and cohesive team environment

Strong attention to detail/methodical/analytical

Self-starter, presentable, professional and confident

Report writing, good communication and presentation skills

Target/results driven with a sense of urgency to get things done

Desire to improve the status quo. Persistent, persuasive and tenacious

Willing to travel

Ability to:

Be agile and adapt to changing environments, spot problems, and trace to root cause to recommend solutions

Develop innovative and creative solutions to problems/initiates smarter ways of working and improving processes

Work in a fast-paced, dynamic team and environment

Qualifications

Relevant honours degree (i.e.): Environmental, Economics, Environmental Management, Chemical Engineering or Social Science, Climate Change and Finance or similar

Fully Microsoft office competent, specifically Word, Excel and PowerPoint

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