Enterprise Risk Management Manager at KPMG

Position Summary

KPMG Financial Risk Management wish to recruit an Enterprise Risk Management Manager to support with executing risk management projects for our financial services clients including developing and implementing ERM programs.

Key roles and responsibilities

The ERM manager will have the following responsibilities:

• Manages engagements or projects to consistently achieve specific revenue and profit objectives and deliver designated engagement realization as per set KPIs. 
• Maintaining a progress tracker of engagement milestones, tasks and deliverables. profit objectives and deliver designated engagement deliverables. 
• Plan and manage client engagement risk and project budget while providing quality work on the engagement. 
• Supervise and provide technical knowledge, direction, and training to the engagement team to produce quality deliverables on time and on budget. 
• Manage and provide leadership to teams of staff level professionals and becomes actively involved in recruiting, staff development, mentorship, and practice management. 
• Lead in business development through writing proposals and client presentations. 
• Maintain compliance with all firm policies and procedures
• Build an understanding of client business and markets to assist in the development of client relationships and developing a commercial mindset on how work performed impacts profitability at the engagement and practice levels. 
• Manage pipeline and revenue as required, maintain a crossselling value, meet individual targets and ensure proper billing and timely follow up. 
• Manage client relationships through cross selling by knowing and sharing valuable client information 
• Build industry knowledge through involvement in internal and external events, documenting and circulating articles and thought leadership. 
• Any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Actuarial, Financial engineering, Business, Engineering, Economics, Statistics, or related relevant degree course. 
• Must have at least 7 years of experience working in Enterprise Risk Management within the financial services sector (Banking & Insurance). 
• Demonstrated experience in reviewing and/ or implementing Enterprise Risk Management systems/ frameworks. 
• Must have a professional qualification such as FRM, ERM, IRM, ACCA, CFA, CPA or CIA. 
• A masters degree as well as certifications in ESG and climate risk would be an added advantage.

Technical competencies and Personal attributes: 

• Exhibits commercial, technical and social awareness. 
• Exhibits strong project management skills 
• Client focused delivery that is effective and efficient. 
• Demonstrates creativity, agile performance and innovation in the way they work. 
• Successful delivery of the risk initiatives as they arise. 
• Ability to train and mentor team members on different tasks. 
• Possess strong written, verbal and research skills with the ability to work well both autonomously and collaboratively. 
• Resilience and Tenacity: must be able to always sustain motivation and commitment and can contain and absorb stressful moments and issues. 
• Multicultural Skills: must be able to operate and interact in a multicultural environment and uphold cultural diversity; and 
• Pragmatic Problem-Solving Skills: ability to handle and resolve unstructured problems and provide effective solutions or avenues for the solutions to come from other team members. 

​​​​​​​We offer:

• An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting edge clients across Africa. 
• Continuous learning and development. 
• Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams. 
• Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative