Careers and employability
Completing this programme enhances your career prospects in Accounting and Finance and beyond – you will emerge as employable, future-fit graduates professionally trained and well-equipped to contribute to global sustainability.
Accounting firms and financial institutions are increasingly looking for employees with specialisation and in-depth knowledge of new developments in investment strategy, making you highly desirable graduates. This programme also enables you to pursue a career as valuable insiders in ethically minded companies outside the industry to advance their sustainable strategy and reporting quality.
From the moment you start your master’s programme, you’ll have access to a specialist, in-house careers team and one-to-one careers guidance, workshops, seminars and employability initiatives as such as our wide-ranging and rewarding Enhance programme events and benefit from the School’s close ties with local, national and international organisations.
As well as developing a range of subject-specific and technical skills in sustainability and business, students will also gain more general skills to enhance their employability. These include:
• Knowledge and awareness of business organisations
• Numerical and quantitative skills
• Problem-solving and analytical skills
• Oral and written communication skills
• The ability to construct an argument as a basis for building a commercial case and for developing negotiation skills
• Knowledge of global business issues and business language skills.
Graduates from this course will be equipped to meet the growing demand from diverse industries for professionals who can integrate sustainable practices into business operations.