Senior Climate Lead

Do you have a passion for contributing to sustainable development together with an extensive experience and a special interest in the climate area? Do you have a consultancy background and excellent leadership skills? Then this is your chance to join our growth journey and to make your mark on the market!

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About us
KPMG’s Sustainability Advisory Sweden consisting of a wide group of skills and expertise, and of mixed seniority. In our Sustainability Advisory team, you’ll find plenty of opportunity to collaborate in an inclusive environment, where everyone is encouraged to bring unique and diverse perspectives into the work that we do for our clients. We work side by side in a well-composed team, combining sustainability expertise with traditional consulting skills. In our engagements and day-to-day interactions, we meet colleagues from KPMG’s Management Consulting team, Risk Consulting & Compliance team, and Assurance team, as we try to mix and match competences and utilize each other's skills as relevant. We make an impact for our clients in a broad range of topics including regulatory and reporting, climate change, biodiversity, circular economy and human rights. With sustainability increasingly being raised as a key strategic topic for our clients, a role in the sustainability team offers numerous opportunities for your personal and professional development.

Sustainability is considered a high focus growth area for KPMG Sweden and KPMG Global, which means that we have global and regional hubs dedicated to developing relevant thought leadership, content and global experts available for our engagements. Our global network allows us to benefit from cross-border expertise and in the coming two years we will start working even closer to our Nordic member firms. Joining our team will give you the chance to work in an international environment in your day-to-day job.



Your role
As our Climate Lead you'll be part of a global organization and work within various industries and areas. Due to the high growth of projects related to the climate agenda, we see a need for a senior person who can bring in the experience and expertise needed to lead these engagements in-house as KPMG’s senior Climate Lead. You will be part of interesting projects with our clients, working shoulder-to-shoulder with top-tier consultants.

​​With your relevant deep subject matter skills, you will be engaged as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in our engagements and is expected to drive deep trust in KPMG’s ability to support this agenda. It is also of importance that you can drive bigger engagements and develop people in your roles as project lead and capability lead.

You will:

- Drive increased sales within the climate consulting area, perhaps via your well-recognized name within this space.
- Provide relevant guidance to clients based on your well-established experience with climate consulting.
- Lead client engagements and client proposals and act as expert in various other projects
- Deepen KPMG’s internal capabilities relating to climate area and develop more junior colleagues in climate subject matter.
As a senior member of Sustainability Advisory, we expect that you will engage both in external and internal matters and will be present at our office a few days per week. While we appreciate the opportunity for KPMG’s employees to work from home, we want to meet in person on a regular basis to secure a good team ambience, feedback and growth culture, and social connection between our team members.
To be successful in this role, you have/are;

- At least 10 years of experience in sustainability
- Experience with work within the climate area, e.g. transition plans, climate risk assessments/climate scenario analysis, GHG accounting, LCA analysis
- Consultant background (project management, leadership) is an advantage
- Fluent in English. Multilingual proficiency and Swedish proficiency are meritorious.
- MSc Sustainability / Engineering /Business /Economics or similar
As a person you are self-driven and an active learner who wants to stay on top as an SME/lead for the climate area. You have good communication skills, which make you good at driving sales, develop more junior colleagues, and connect to existing clients.



Want to make a difference with us?



We’re very excited to welcome you to our team and we assure you that you'll get a steep learning curve and valuable experiences from working alongside our clients while targeting their critical challenges, and in addition to that, you will have a lot of fun on the way!

Don’t wait with your application as we review applications and are hiring on a rolling basis. If you have any questions please contact Talent Manager Susanne Hedberg, susanne.hedberg@kpmg.se



We look forward to your application and for new colleagues to join our team!



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In this process we have the following steps;

- Business interviews

- Personality and logical tests with a follow-up in depth interview

- Final discussion

- References

- Background check

At KPMG, we know that if we use and act on our insights together with the right people, we find opportunities everywhere. With 2000 employees in Sweden, Latvia and Lithuania, and a network of more than 265 000 experts in 143 countries across the globe, we are one of the world’s leading professional services firms.

We offer expertise within advisory, audit and tax and legal services to many of our region’s leading companies. We may support their organizational change, provide advice regarding risk and compliance, ESG reporting or development journeys, cyber threats, technology transformation, or finance strategy optimization. We also have experts within analysis, M&A and transactions, audit, tax and legal.