Director-Climate Risk and Decarbonisation Strategy Internal Audit lead

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The Role

Climate Risk & Decarbonisation Strategy

The Climate Risk and Decarbonisation Strategy Team (CR&DS) leads KPMG’s work on the climate topic, including around climate risk and decarbonisation strategy. As a fast-growing team focused on one of the defining issues of our time and directly supported by KPMG’s UK Board, we present an exciting opportunity to potential hires, both in terms of professional opportunity and potential for real-world impact.

Our team has been formed to help clients across corporates and financial services respond to the immense, systemic challenges posed by climate change. Amongst other activities, we help clients to identify and quantify climate risks and opportunities faced by their businesses to meet regulatory, investor and stakeholder demands; analyse and assess the range of mitigation and adaptation strategies available to address climate risks (including the adoption of net zero strategies, carbon market participation and transition planning); ensure business are positioned to capture the opportunity from climate change; implement the strategies; and, finally, embed the risk, strategy, targets and governance into financial reporting, helping to pave the way to a low carbon economy.

Our vision is for the Boards of all companies to consider climate change as a key part of their Enterprise Risk Management and business strategy. The team has received extremely positive feedback from clients and is currently working with a number of FTSE100 and Fortune500 clients, playing a key role in KPMG’s goal of delivering £140m of profit with purpose by 2025.

We are looking for hires who are passionate about climate change, regard this as a systemic issue and who can fit in well to a dynamic, enthusiastic and highly capable team. If this is sounds like you, please get in touch!

Roles & Responsibilities

Climate Change is becoming a feature of most Internal Audit plans, across Financial Services, Corporates and Public Sector organisations. To enable us to effectively support our Internal Audit practice, we are looking for someone to lead this area for the CR&DS team.

Key responsibilities of the role include managing and actively originating Climate Risk and Decarbonisation Strategy engagements by:

• Working closely with the KPMG Internal Audit leadership team to identify opportunities
• Acting as the primary team interface with various levels of client executives up to and including C-Suite Level
• Identifying Climate Change Internal Audit best practice and creating propositions to put KPMG at the forefront of these initiatives with our clients
• Managing the delivery of Internal Audit project deliverables and advising persuasively, earning the position of a trusted advisor
• Developing the team culture and inspiring and empowering team members to be the best
• Participating in the professional development of KPMG Climate Risk and Decarbonisation team members and assist with the recruiting and training of new staff
• Any other duties commensurate with the role.

The Person

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Experience of operating at the C-Suite level on Internal Audit topics
• Professional accountancy qualification (ACA or equivalent)
• Strong understanding of broader risk management concepts – and how climate risk interplays with wider enterprise risk management processes and systems
• Proven track record working with corporates and/ or financial services organisations
• Proven track record leading and managing teams, including:

o Ability to structure complex work programmes
o Ability to operate in the detail and to understand the big picture
o Experience in developing more junior colleagues

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication skills (verbal, written, presentation)
• Ability to build and nurture trusting relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including senior client decision makers
• Collaborative outlook and team player

Please send your CV with a cover letter of no more than 2 pages explaining:

1. Why you want to work in Climate Risk & Decarbonisation Strategy
2. The skills you would bring to the team and why you think they are important for the team to have
3. Anything else you think is relevant to your applicatio