Job Opportunities 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.

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• KPMG People & Change wish to recruit a Senior Associate to assist in analyzing client needs, developing strategies, and delivering HR solutions, ensuring compliance to KPMG policies and professional Standards.

Key roles and responsibilities

The Senior Associate will have the following responsibilities:

• Participate in the development of a work plan, budget and quality plan to ensure efficiency, high performance and high-quality work on engagements..
• Maintain a progress tracker of engagement milestones, tasks and deliverables.
• Schedule and conduct engagement (internal and client) kick-off, progress and close out meetings.
• Keep all engagement stakeholders updated on progress.
• Ensure financial closure of all engagements.
• Ensure engagement files are compliant.
• Lead and participate in the preparation of proposals, bids, quotations, etc. and including pitching for jobs.
• Manage revenue, maintain a cross-selling value, meet individual revenue targets and ensure proper billing of clients.
• Supervise staff on engagements including leading, coaching, training, directing and reviewing work products of team members who may include Seniors, Associates, etc. and as necessary.
• Build industry knowledge through involvement in events, articles and thought leadership.
• Ensure all pre-engagement risk activities, including at the proposal stage, are undertaken and signed off.
• Any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree qualification in humanities or any other related field.
• Master’s degree in Human Resources is an added advantage.
• Membership of a relevant professional bodies such as CIPD, IHRM.
• Minimum 5 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 and 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.

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Key roles and responsibilities

Delivery:

• Take ultimate ownership of a portfolio of development finance mandates in the region, often taking the formal role of Team Lead and leading multi-disciplinary teams of KPMG professionals and sub-consultants, harnessing skills across commercial, financial, procurement, legal, regulatory, environmental, social, and technical/engineering backgrounds.
• Oversight of delivery teams that are developing strategy, policy, pipeline, and investment attraction programs.
• Developing a suite of solutions for Development Partners, DFIs and Philanthropies which will involve the transaction services offering of strategy development, fund design, due diligence, feasibility studies, debt and equity advisory and value for money assessments.
• Lead the capacity building of teams in region on development finance.
• Influence the achievement of strategic outcomes (deployment of DFI capital) for the benefit of our clients.

Business development:

• Work with partners and directors to develop all aspects of the Deal Advisory business.
• Lead on service line innovation and expansion for Development Partners, DFIs and Philanthropic clients.
• Lead an agreed portfolio of client service teams with specific revenue generation targets across the various Deal Advisory service offerings. Participating as a member of other Deal Advisory client service teams.
• Lead the development of a robust business development pipeline of opportunities including the development of detailed concept notes, ownership of the preparation of all elements of technical and financial proposals, leadership of (or participation in, as the case may be) of client pitches, etc.

Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:

• Relevant Masters Degree in Finance/Business/Law.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience working with Government agencies, DFIs and Philanthropies.

Technical skills and competencies:

• Deep strategy expertise, leading on Development Finance and impact investment strategies.
• Leading engagement with Senior Executives in DFI space working with multilaterals and development partners.
• Business development: develop strategies for clients, sectors, countries, or regions with the objective of building a robust project pipeline of opportunities across the Africa region. This includes anticipating market trends, sector/country knowledge, leveraging existing networks, building new networks and directly pursuing opportunities.
• Supervising, mentoring, coaching and managing staff: mentor and coach less-experienced colleagues to help build talent and grow their skills base. Support relevant manager(s) in staff recruitment and skills development.
• Knowledge of the various sectors financial services, healthcare, public sector, international development, Philanthropies.
• The ideal candidate will need to work with the KPMG Africa’s Lead for Elevate in the development and deployment of KPMG’s Elevate service offering across Africa.

Personal attributes:

• An expert-level grasp of blended finance and the issues impacting MBD reform, DFI strategies and Philanthropies.
• Relationships: owning primary relationships with clients at the highest level (chair/CEO/minister/ambassador or equivalent level).
• Priority account leadership: experience leading priority accounts and achieving stretch revenue targets.
• Team leadership: ownership of pursuit, conversion and delivery of multiple complex assignment simultaneously.
• Analytical skills: transaction structuring, financing strategy structuring.
• Influencing skills: positively influencing client decision making and ability to deal with a variety of stakeholders at the highest level of client interaction.
• Pragmatic problem-solving skills: ability to handle and resolve unstructured problems, flex and adapt in new environments to create order and stability and provide effective solutions.
• Goal driven and result oriented: enjoys being measured and being judged by performance results.
• Multicultural skills: must be able to operate and interact across multiple African jurisdictions and uphold cultural diversity.
• Resilience and tenacity: must be able to sustain motivation and commitment to goals and ability to deal with difficult client conversations.
• Willingness for significant travel.
• Highest standards of ethics and integrity.

We offer:

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