In the Procurement Advisory domain we are recognised as industry leaders by clients and analysts including:

• ALM Vanguard leader in Sourcing and Procurement Consulting
• A Spend Matters 50/50 Provider to Know
• Leader in IDC MarketScape Worldwide Operations Improvement Consulting

At KPMG’s highly successful Management Consultancy and Digital practices, we’re working with our clients to help them understand how technology can drive business performance. As such, we’re looking for outstanding technologists to join us, grow with us, and develop our Procurement Technology delivery capability, driving our strategy through large-scale Procurement transformation. Part of a developing team that will become our ‘go to’ for Procurement Technology, you will play a key role in the growing of our propositions to sell and deliver large programs. You’ll have excellent listening skills, and a proven track record of helping clients reach their desired outcomes. On the technical side, you’ll need a thorough understanding of Procurement technology solutions.

KPMG’s Strategy & Performance Transformation practice is looking for exceptional candidates for an Associate Director role.  The role will focus on Deal Strategy within the Media industry as part of the wider Telecommunications-Media-Technology sector, but with scope to work on the wider range of services including Growth Strategy, Deal Strategy, Cost and Operational strategy (including Economic Profitability Analysis) and Enterprise-wide Transformation.

The Strategy & Performance Transformation team is part of KPMG’s rapidly expanding Strategy Group, which delivers value for clients by challenging conventional thinking, bringing deep industry and functional insights and executing with investor-grade rigour.  We are a diverse team of over 150  practitioners, working collaboratively with and orchestrating KPMG’s broad set of capabilities within our Deal Advisory business.

• Responsible for the continuous investigation of correlated security event feeds and the appropriate escalation in case of an identified security incident.
• Assess and assist in the creation and improvement (fine-tuning, whitelisting, etc.) of correlation rules, processes and procedures and other related documentation.
• Work with Threat Intelligence and Vulnerability Management to monitor for emerging threat patterns and vulnerabilities.
• Support, advise, assist and mentor L1 and L2 shift Analysts.

Role summary

The Director – Global Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) Lead, holds a pivotal strategic role within KPMG’s Global Information Security Services (ISS) function.   This role will set the strategic direction for CSIRT, within Global, embedding AI into the core capabilities and leveraging its findings to drive enterprise-wide transformations across firms.  This role must navigate complex regulatory requirements, managing high risk and high pressure decisions, supporting but not limited to providing recommendations to implement isolation of member firm from the network, inline with the crisis protocols

This role presents an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and play a key part in building and shaping the future of the Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) across the global organisation. Reporting directly to the Global Head of ISS, the Director will stand up the new global CSIRT capability, by developing and leading the continuous improvement of the processes and technologies that support core CSIRT services.  The role will be accountable for budget allocations, resource planning across multiple regions, leveraging 3rd party resources where required to support demand.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with the ability to design, implement, and oversee CSIRT operations. They will ensure KPMG maintains the capability to respond to and recover from cybersecurity threats on a 24/7 basis across its global network, managing cross-border leaderships, informing Global leadership, IOGC, GCISO, GSIO and equivalents within member firms of key finds to support actions carried out that could lead to disciplinary consequences.

This role also involves staffing and leading a high-performing team dedicated to managing both cybersecurity and information handling incidents within KPMG, mentoring other leaders across the firms and driving talent strategy

This role will be required to act as cyber commander (part of a roster) during a critical or major incident and supporting cyber commanders when off roster.