People & Change - Manager at KPMG

Position Summary

• KPMG People & Change wish to recruit a Manager to analyze clients’ needs, develop strategies, and lead a team to deliver tailored HR solutions, ensuring compliance to KPMG policies and professional Standards.

Key roles and responsibilities

The Manager will have the following responsibilities:

• Manages engagements or projects to consistently achieve specific revenue and profit objectives and deliver designated engagement deliverables.
• Maintain a progress tracker of engagement milestones, tasks and deliverables.
• Plan and manage client engagement risk and project budget.
• Identify and escalate key client challenges to assess best possible intervention.
• Provide technical knowledge, direction and training to the engagement team to produce quality deliverables.
• Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders/ clients.
• Contribute to proposal development efforts by driving market initiatives through involvement with relevant markets team.
• Manage client relationships through cross selling by knowing and sharing valuable client information.
• Provide timely and objective feedback to teams on task performance.
• Build industry knowledge through involvement in events, articles and thought leadership.
• Ensure compliance to policies, standards and procedures.
• Ensure delivery teams are appropriately supervised, coached and supported to ensure no write offs.
• Any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree in Human Resources.
• Bachelor’s degree qualification in humanities or any other related field.
• Membership of a relevant professional bodies such as CIPD, IHRM.
• Minimum 8 years of experience in human resource consulting.
• Experience in managing HR engagements, e .g., organization structure review, workload analysis, change management etc.. In East Africa.

Technical competencies and Personal attributes:

• Strong consulting skills. Be able to effectively support all aspects of engagement delivery, end-to-end, with minimal supervision and high accountability.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills, with the ability to proactively engage and consult with others across all levels.
• Good communication skills (written and verbal).
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines.
• Strong business writing, report writing, presentation and research skills.
• A high standard of integrity.
• A high aptitude for learning new approaches and innovation.
• Self-driven and results-oriented.
• Team player with good people management, work organization and coordination skills.
• Networking & stakeholder management skills.
• Training/ facilitation skills.
• Diligent and committed to excellence.
• Excellent coordination and planning skills.
• Resilience and Tenacity: must be able to always sustain motivation and commitment and can contain and absorb stressful moments and issues.
• Willingness to travel within and outside the region on a need basis.

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.