Digital Assurance & Transparency (Dat) Sustainability Associate - Summer / Fall 2024

Time Type: Full-time

Travel Requirements: Up to 20%

Our Digital Assurance and Transparency practice (DAT) is at the forefront of innovation, supporting both delivery of quality, tech-enabled solutions focused on trust and transparency and value-add growth in business and social issues that are top of mind with our clients. You’ll work closely with clients, your Digital Assurance and Transparency team, and our external audit teams to understand the systems and technologies our clients use and how they can mitigate risk. As a Digital Assurance and Transparency professional, you’ll be part of an organization with a focus on quality, value, innovation, emerging technologies (e.g. cloud, digital assets), and growth and gain experience across several of our specialized areas of focus throughout your career. A career within the Environmental Social and Governance team in our Digital Assurance and Transparency practice enables you to have the opportunity to work with a diverse team of professionals that have a blend of sustainability, finance, accounting, and industry expertise who are focused on providing audit and consulting services to our clients to help them build trust with their stakeholders. The practice specializes in providing audit and consulting services in significant areas such as climate change, greenhouse gas emissions, human capital, Environmental Social and Governance reporting frameworks, and sustainable finance.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

Responsibilities

PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to

As an Associate, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution.

• Identify and make suggestions for improvements when problems and/or opportunities arise.
• Share and collaborate effectively with others.
• Seek opportunities to learn about how PwC works as a global network of firms.
• Follow risk management and compliance procedures.
• Build and maintain an internal and external network.
• Invite and give in the moment feedback in a constructive manner.
• Keep up-to-date with developments in area of specialism.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.
• Communicate confidently in a clear, concise and articulate manner - verbally and in the materials I produce.
• Handle, manipulate and analyse data and information responsibly.

A career in our ESG practice, within our Digital Assurance & Transparency practice, will provide opportunities to assist clients in identifying and prioritizing sustainability issues, setting goals that support alignment and integration of the sustainability vision into the overall corporate strategy, implement policies, procedures and controls to help companies operationalize and bring to life their sustainability programs and provide assurance on a company’s sustainability metrics.

Basic Qualifications

Job Requirements and Preferences:

Minimum Degree Required

Bachelor Degree

Required Fields Of Study

Accounting, Management Information Systems, Computer and Information Science, Information Technology, Sustainable Resource Management, Environmental Science, Analytics

Minimum Years Of Experience

0 year(s)

Preferred Qualifications

Additional Educational Preferences:

Preferred cumulative GPA: 3.0

Preferred Major GPA: 3.0

Preferred Knowledge/Skills

Demonstrate some proven knowledge and ability within the following areas:

• Demonstrating prior internship experience in a role related to sustainability.
• Possessing knowledge of ESG reporting frameworks (e.g., SASB, GRI, CDP);
• Having flexibility and desire to travel, as client assignments required; and,
• Writing, communicating, facilitating, and presenting clearly when interacting with team members in a professional setting;
• Demonstrating abilities as team member by building solid relationships, communicating in an organized and knowledgeable manner, delivering clear requests for information, demonstrating flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks, understanding personal and team roles, contributing to a positive working environment by building solid relationships with team members, proactively seeking guidance, clarification, and feedback, and communicating potential conflicts to a supervisor;
• Exhibiting an interest in all aspects of Sustainability Consulting, and a desire to pursue a career in consulting;
• Helping clients develop their ESG strategies (such as climate risk, diversity, equity and inclusion) by identifying sustainability issues, setting goals and metrics to support alignment of the sustainability vision into strategy, tech enabling their ESG reporting through the implementation of processes, controls and systems, and providing assurance on ESG information;

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PwC does not intend to hire experienced or entry level job seekers who will need, now or in the future, PwC sponsorship through the H-1B lottery, except as set forth within the following policy: https://pwc.to/H-1B-Lottery-Policy.

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