Audit & Assurance Sustainability & ESG Intern – Deloitte

Location: Multiple locations

Overview:

At Deloitte, our Sustainability & ESG Services Team combines CPAs with specialists in sustainability assurance, risk, measurement, and reporting. The Sustainability team provides advisory and assurance services for clients on a broad range of aspects for clients who plan to or are already disclosing against established sustainability reporting standards or frameworks such as Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB), Task Force on Climate- Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), Principles for Responsible Investing, IFC Operating Principles for Impact Management, UN Global Compact, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the GHG Protocol, CDP, and the International Integrated Reporting Council Integrated Reporting Framework. Our team includes specialists who bring industry-specific sustainability perspectives. These include understanding evolving ESG trends and market forces, why certain sustainability metrics are important from both a financial and risk perspective, and experience in advising companies as they establish and improve internal processes for collecting, analyzing, measuring, and reporting information.

Roles/Responsibilities: 

Participate in the delivery of projects for clients with a focus on:

• Research, stakeholder engagement, and analysis as part of materiality assessments and ESG risk and opportunity analyses
• Sustainability-related assurance procedures such as evaluating and testing ESG data and processes and related controls
• Corporate reporting in line with recognized ESG standards and frameworks such as GHG Protocol, TCFD, GRI, SASB, CDP, PRI, and WEF-IBC
• Decarbonization, science-based targets, energy transition, energy and carbon reporting and analytics
• Climate risk assessments and mitigation strategies
• ESG due diligence and ESG advisory projects for financial service clients
• Qualitative and quantitative research using ESG data

Participate in client meetings, as applicable

Assist in preparation of deliverables and reports

Qualifications: 

Required:

• Pursuing an undergraduate degree in business with a minor or dual degree focused on sustainability-related disciplines, or undergraduate degree in sustainability management, climate policy, public policy or a related-environmental, social or engineering disciplines
• Ability to travel up to 20%, on average, based on the work you do and the clients and industries/sectors you serve
• Candidates must be at least 18 years of age at the time of employment

Preferred:

• Strong academic track record, minimum GPA of 3.0
• Plans to meet minimal education requirements for CPA licensure in the state of your assigned office location
• Understanding of ESG-related standards and frameworks including GHG Protocol, SASB, GRI, TCFD, Principles for Responsible Investing (PRI), Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
• Strong data analytics and visualization skills, comfortable working with large datasets, both in Excel and beyond
• Experience using Tableau, ArcGIS, Python advantageous
• Familiarity with ESG ratings (e.g., MSCI, Sustainalytics, ISS, S&P)
• Familiarity of any of the following fields is preferred: circular economy, sustainability target setting, carbon accounting, sustainable finance, ESG due diligence, climate change, and / or ESG governance