Role summary

We are recruiting for a Director in the KDN Internal Audit & Controls team who will be responsible to grow the practice by onboarding KPMG Member Firms and embedding KDN in client delivery. This would require engagement with KPMG Member Firms to educate them on KDN capabilities, solutions offered and collaboration with pursuit/engagement teams to help with pre-sales activities including proposals and solutioning.

In addition, the responsibility would also involve leading key engagements from delivery standpoint. This would require owning the delivery end to end which would include understanding and setting up the project, stakeholder engagement, driving quality and ensuring timely delivery within defined budget. 

Job Title/Req Number: Manager - Procurement Transformation / 108395

Base Location: UK wide

About KPMG:

KPMG is one of the world's leading professional services organisations — a global network of member firms operating in 150+ countries offering Audit, Tax, and Advisory services to thousands of clients.

About our team:

We are seeking an experienced Procurement professional to join our Corporates Operations Transformation team. Our team helps clients build leading practice capability across plan, source, make, move and sell - focussing on large corporate clients in the FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 businesses.

In the Procurement 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

We are specifically seeking an individual with experience of Procurement Transformation programmes including digital / technology.

KPMG’s Strategy & Performance Transformation practice is looking for exceptional candidates for a 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.

As a Director in the Finance Centre of Excellence you will play a senior leadership role in shaping, delivering, and growing our finance-focused deal advisory propositions. You will lead complex, high pressure, multi workstream engagements, working directly with CFOs and finance leadership teams on both the buy-side and sell-side to design, plan, and execute finance workstreams within transaction environments.

KPMG’s Pensions Advisory business continues to build out its new pensions team, and requires individuals that can bring different skill-sets to the team.

We are looking for a talented Consultant to join our team, who will be responsible for working closely with colleagues in the area of defined benefit pensions. Specific areas of focus, but not exhaustive, will include

• Journey planning and risk management, aiming for self-sufficiency or buy out, and endgame options including use of surplus
• Funding advice to sponsors and advice on compliance with DB funding code
• Advice on contingent funding options and work on special purpose vehicles
• Pensions due diligence on mergers and acquisitions
• Provision of member education and communication
• Advice on benefit change, benefit design and implementation
• Advice on good governance and compliance