Associate Director Carbon Markets - Melbourne, Australia - KPMGau

KPMGau

Verified Company

Melbourne, Australia

3 weeks ago

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Olivia Brown

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Description

**Company Description
**KPMG is one of the most trusted and respected global professional services firms. Through depth of expertise, clarity of insight, and strength of purpose, we help our clients solve complex challenges, steer change, strengthen, transition, and grow sustainably and responsibly. We are looking for talented people who share our purpose of inspiring confidence and empowering change for our clients, people, communities, and planet.

KPMG's Climate Change & Sustainability service is focused on assisting a wide variety of Australian and International clients to understand and optimise their organisational response to the risks and opportunities of climate change, carbon management and emission reduction.

**Job Description

**We work with leading organisations across industry sectors and cover a wide range of exciting areas, including: - Carbon Markets, projects, offsets, as well as carbon pricing

Physical climate risk assessment including mitigation and risk management opportunities
Transitional climaterelated risk and opportunity assessments and effective use of scenario analysis
Assisting clients to understand and improve climaterelated disclosure against the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD)
Integrating climate change strategy into sustainability, organisational risk management and strategic processes
Development of innovative and practical recommendations to manage risks and maximise opportunities
Managing and reporting on climate, carbon and GHG data and developing key performance indicators
Helping clients to establish their GHGreduction goals and a pathway to achieving them
Assisting both government and the private sector develop effective responses to climate change, including policies, guidelines and effective stakeholder engagement and management.

We work with organisations across various sectors, including infrastructure, government, mining, power and utilities, energy, oil and gas and retail.

In response to growing client demand for our services, there is an exciting opportunity for a carbon market professional to join our team in Sydney, Melbourne or Perth.

Your new role:
This role takes guidance from the Director or Partner in the execution of work activities on engagements.

Provides input and contributes to the planning and delivery of engagements including work plans, timelines, project management, resource allocation and career development of others.

Takes responsibility on projects or engagements below management and works with less experienced team members, including directing and reviewing the work outputs and assisting with training as necessary.

Staying at the cutting edge of technology and innovation, to be part of continually building these elements into our service offering, is a key part of your role.

Essential expected leadership and behaviours are:

Inspires others by developing and motivating people, championing inclusion, and connecting individuals by building collaboration
Demonstrates a growth mindset by growing self, others and client relationships through selfawareness, innovation, and an exceptional client experience
Is open to change and new ways of thinking and doing
Tackling difficult decisions in conjunction with more senior team members by exercising sound, ethical business judgment
Contributes to inclusion and diversity by role modelling inclusive behaviours and providing feedback to others as needed
Builds and takes ownership of key business relationships and manages others to deliver quality work
Manages the preparation, delivery, reporting and evaluation of assigned projects and

engagements

Provides advanced technical knowledge, direction and training to others
Participates in team practice decisions including resource allocation, career development of people and other people management decisions
Has a focus on business development, building networks and people development
Actively collaborates within the firm through engagements and networks
Contributes to sales through activities including identifying new opportunities, developing

opportunities with existing clients, contributing to and/or managing the development of

proposals, source case studies/credentials and development of the project plan

Builds relationships with a broad range of business personnel over time and assists other team members by introducing them to these contacts.

You bring to the role:

Knowledge of carbon related products and processes across carbon offsets, credits,

methodologies and carbon markets in Australia and globally

Approximately 10 to 15 years of demonstrated experience in carbon or / GHG aligned activities these could be across reporting, project development and execution, policy, auditing and advisory, risk and/or program management.
Strong knowledge of emerging carbon markets, carbon offset and sequestration initiatives and / or climate change developments and policy, includi