Job Title
Associate – ESG Assurance
Grade
Graduate
Department
Corporate Solution and Innovation
Descriptions
KPMG in Malaysia provides audit, tax, and advisory services. Established in 1928, not only is our firm one of the oldest in Malaysia, but also the oldest KPMG firm in the Asia Pacific region. With approximately over 2000 staff positioned in 8 offices nationwide, our goal is turning knowledge into value for the benefit of our clients, our people, and the capital markets.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a renowned, fast-paced and professional organization with good career development opportunities.
Responsibilities
Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) Assurance typically involves assessing and providing independent verification of a company’s ESG practices, disclosures, data, and performance. Overview of the job scope by an ESG Assurance professional may involve the following:
- Assessment and verification: Reviewing a company ESG reports, policies, data, and practices to ensure accuracy and compliance with relevant standards and regulations.
- Data Analysis: Analyzing data related to environmental data, social responsibility, and corporate governance to evaluate its accuracy, relevance, and consistency.
- Stakeholder engagement: Engaging with various stakeholders, including the company’s management, data process owners, investors, regulators, supplies, where required, to gather input and feedback.
- Reporting: Responsible for producing ESG Assurance reports, which may be published and used by stakeholders to make informed decisions.
- Recommendations: Required to offer recommendations for improvement in a company’s ESG practices based on their assessment.
- Compliance: Engaged to assess a company’s compliance with ESG standards such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Integrated Reporting Framework (IR), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) or the International Sustainability Standards Board’s IFRS S1 and S2.
- Continues monitoring: Continuously be engaged and monitor a company’s ESG performance and provide updated assessments year by year.
Regulatory compliance: Stay up to date with evolving ESG regulations and requirements to ensure that the company’s practices are aligned accordingly.
Overall, the goal of ESG Assurance is to build trust among stakeholders by ensuring accurate ESG reporting and encouraging responsible business practices that consider the environmental and social impacts of a company’s operations.
Requirements
- Degree from an accredited university, be it accounting and finance or sustainability academic focus.
- Efficient, highly effective work ethic - able to work in a fast-paced environment;
- Ability to work in 3 or more projects at one time; averaging 3 projects at one time;
- Ability to work in and contribute to the effective delivery of project deliverables, outputs, and support the growth of project team members;
- Ability to analyze regional and client sustainability data as well as information, create interesting and engaging findings, and present the information in a concise manner;
- Ability to support Project Manager in conducting sustainability trainings at the most senior levels (executive management teams and boards);
- Ability to support in client interviews and catalyze engaging conversations with stakeholders);
- Highly proficient with computers, Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and the internet;
- Fluent in English – reading, speaking, writing.
