Senior - Financial Risk Management at KPMG

KPMG’s Financial Risk Management (FRM) practice offers broad ranging financial risk management services. We help banks, asset managers and corporate and public clients identify, assess, manage, report and limit the risks they face. We work with clients to highlight concerns and help improve processes, governance and strategy across a range of areas, including:

• Credit risk measurement and management
• Operational risk measurement and management
• Market and liquidity risks
• Economic capital management
• Capital adequacy & regulatory services
• Basel II and Solvency II transformation
• Treasury management and transformation

We are trusted risk management advisers to the boards and executive teams of some of the leading enterprises in the region.

To complement our existing team, we seek dynamic and motivated professionals for the role of Senior Advisor with a regional mandate

Key roles and responsibilities

Execute Engagements

• Plan and execute FRM consulting engagements for all our East Africa clients in banking
• Ensure the production of quality deliverables on time and on budget
• Ensure buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels of our clients
• Ensure the quality of deliverables exceed client expectations
• Contribute to successful client oral presentations
• Manage engagement risk and project budget

Qualifications and experience

• Minimum of three years working experience in banking sector or in a professional services firm focusing on banking
• Bachelor’s Degree in Actuarial, Engineering or Economics or Business equivalent
• Strong understanding of international banking best practices
• Strong analytical and presentation skills
• International exposure in financial risk engagements will be an added advantage

Skills and attributes

• Able to demonstrate commercial awareness with sound knowledge of matters affecting the market
• Ability to interpret complex data
• Ability to undertake multiple parts of an engagement gaining management and supervisory skills
• Entrepreneurial mind-set and ability to identify opportunities and develop high quality proposals
• Socially confident, and able to create a strong presence with clients and the KPMG team
• The ideal candidate must be able to provide support to various management and leadership levels, and work well independently.

We offer:

• Exciting unparalleled exposure to advisory skills, competencies and tools
• Continuous learning and development;
• Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams; Local and regional travel
• Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.