Associate - Business Solution (ESG)

Job Description & Summary

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) is a term that covers a range of issues facing the world today. At PwC, it’s an opportunity to have a purposeful career and to positively contribute to one of the most pressing problems of our time by helping to reshape the whole economy and the society in which we live.

With speed, collaboration, and imaginative thinking we’re helping our clients to build trust in the climate transition. In particular, we’re building trust by strengthening the credibility of non-financial and climate reporting, by focusing on the importance of sustainable and fair transitions to net zero and helping our clients achieve such transitions, by ensuring that our own business is ready to meet the challenges of the climate transition, and by sharing our own transition-related experiences with our clients.

As part of The New Equation, PwC is investing $12bn globally over the next five years, creating over 100,000 new jobs with a particular focus on strengthening our ESG capabilities across the firm. We’re working to combine our world-leading Sustainability & Climate Change practice with our market-leading consulting services, bringing the best of our firm together to help our clients. Together, we can build more sustainable businesses for a stronger world. Join us on this journey as we create real, transformative impact.

Key Responsibilities:

*Experienced ESG Associate:

The overall objective of this role is to work seamlessly with ESG professionals at PwC Vietnam and also in the Asia Pacific region. The role covers multiple aspects supporting the delivery of ESG-oriented services (i.e. ESG reporting, ESG training, ESG strategy development, ESG Assurance, etc.) for clients in the Vietnam market. You will have the opportunity to enjoy challenging ESG work, create your own professional path, make a tangible contribution to a growing, employee-centric organisation, and be part of PwC’s “The New Equation” – a future that is human-led and tech-powered.

*Responsibilities:

- Work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from ESG strategy to reporting

- Participate in open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to ensure project progress and deliver quality deliverables

- Leverage and maintain working knowledge of technical subjects impacting clients including but not limited to sustainability reporting frameworks (e.g. GRI, SASB, UN SDGs, TCFD, etc.), GHG emissions, SBTi, and relevant sustainability regulations

- Provide support to conduct research, contribute to the development of proposals, identify and escalate potential business opportunities on existing engagements

- Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct

- A bachelor’s degree preferably in the field of environmental or social science, environmental resource management, corporate governance, business administration or related fields

- A master’s degree in relevant fields is a plus

- About 1 year of experience in sustainability work

- Strong passion for sustainability and ESG issues

- Excellent organisational, problem-solving, and analytical skills

- An ability to analyse strategic, operational, risk and financial implications of sustainability trends and translate these into commercial impact

- Data management and visualisation skills

- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively

- Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, particularly when communicating on an engagement to a wide range of stakeholders from project managers to senior management

- Knowledge of international sustainability guidelines, frameworks and standards (GRI, SASB, TCFD, CDP, UN - SDGs, GHG Protocol, etc.) is a plus

- Good command of English