Assistant Manager - IGH GRCS – KPMG - Consulting

Base Location: London plus network of 20 offices nationally: KPMG Office Locations

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Joining KPMG means joining a talented team of exceptional colleagues who bring innovative thoughts and a natural curiosity to the work they do each day. No one type of person succeeds at KPMG; a diverse business requires diverse personalities, characters, and perspectives. There really is a place for you here.

Why Join KPMG as a Assistant Manager - IGH GRCS? 

KPMG's Governance, Risk and Compliance Services (GRCS) practice within IGH is an area of the firm with tremendous growth potential. GRCS is an integral part of our Enterprise Risk advisory practice. We provide services relating to internal audit, internal control, corporate governance, risk management and related assurance projects. Clients are based in the public sector and our services deliver added value to clients using modern control assessment, risk management and audit techniques focusing on strategic, management and operational issues as well as financial management and reporting controls. We also work closely with other consulting teams including our colleagues in Technology Risk and Cyber Risk to ensure our clients receive the best possible advice and assurance. 

What will you be doing?

•    Assurance mapping
•    Creating annual audit plans for clients
•    Providing internal audit services on both outsourced and co-sourced contractual basis
•    Managing and directly delivering a programme of internal audit projects which includes planning, review, quality assurance and reporting
•    Working with a client’s in-house internal audit function for co-source engagements to supply specialist or additional resource needed
•    Process improvement projects
•    Risk management, governance and internal audit advisory services
•    Risk identification workshops and control reviews
•    Delivering control and risk training
•    Managing and reviewing internal control questionnaires
•    Corporate governance reviews
•    Contract compliance audits
•    Assessing effectiveness of internal audit functions, audit committees and boards
•    Working with members of other KPMG advisory teams 
•    Business development 

What will you need to do it?

•    Assisting with the management of UK-wide portfolio of clients, maintaining relationships with senior KPMG and client staff and being responsible for the financial performance and delivery of these accounts
•    Demonstrating a detailed understanding of how current and emerging legal, regulatory, governance, risk management, auditing, accounting and financial reporting standards affect their clients
•    Understanding and assisting managers to undertake KPMG's internal risk management and client engagement management procedures including client acceptance, continuance and engagement procedures
•    Keeping up to date with all industry specific issues and circumstances which affect your clients
•    Developing internal audit strategies which address all internal audit, client service and project management issues, in accordance with the KPMG internal audit methodology
•    Delivering against those audit strategies
•    Recognising where specialists are required and involving other KPMG staff, managing their input to the client
•    Reviewing the audit evidence obtained ensuring it is sufficient in line with International Internal Audit (IIA) and PSIAS (Public Sector Internal Audit) Standards and KPMG method

Our Transaction Services practice comprises approximately 500 people across the UK, organised to align to KPMG’s market orientated structure, and is at the heart of the Firm's agenda to increase its penetration of boardrooms and work with clients across the economic and transaction cycle. Our team works closely with colleagues across Deal Advisory as well as Tax, Audit and other Advisory teams; it is a multi-disciplinary and international environment that sits right at the heart of our One Firm agenda. We are recruiting Managers in our Private Equity, Financial Services, Corporates and Capital Markets teams across the UK to support the growth of our TS business.

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 Business Development Manager

Role Overview

The Business Development Manager will be responsible for driving utilisation and dependence upon KPMG Microsoft Business Solutions as the go-to place for all Microsoft at KPMG. Providing trusted advisor expertise with member firms around their strategic approach to fulfilling their client’s business and technology needs. The BDM will create and progress on opportunities for MBS in the International market by leveraging a hybrid skillset of business development, presales, technical excellence and delivery. Adding to this, the BDM will advocate innovation both within the firm and with clients and take a role in developing team members to their full potential as well as promoting collaboration across teams.

Business Development

• Own the development and execution of a demand generation strategy for a key industry market to drive pipeline and sales to agreed KPI’s
• Develop the overall positioning, uniqueness, and messaging for the Microsoft offerings through KPMG Microsoft Business Solutions into that industry
• Responsible for the generation of pipeline and execution of sales for the organisation
• Identify and develop opportunities for the organisation to diversify across sub industry, emerging technology and services propositions to build pipeline
• Work with KPMG teams to create integrated propositions to meet the needs of specific industries or clients to build pipeline
• Lead the interlock with the delivery organisation to ensure:
• Contracts with clients are robust
• The sales teams support programme delivery in partnership
• The development of innovative and profitable commercial constructs
• Develop a marketing and communications plan to drive pipeline for the organisation in white space clients
• Ensure that client relationships and commercial engagements are managed effectively to ensure successful delivery and long-term relationship development

Business Development – Execution

• Own and cultivate senior stakeholder relationships within key strategic accounts
• Own and manage key relationships within the KPMG partner network to drive pipeline from within the firms’ client base
• Own and manage the relationship with key Microsoft stakeholders to develop co- selling opportunities
• Lead key bids and proposals for large scale transformation programmes (typically in the €1-4m range)
• Work as a trusted advisor with clients around their strategic business and technology needs
• Leads and supports the negotiation of contracts and ensures compliance with KPMG Microsoft Business Solutions policy

 Requirements

• Highly experienced working in Microsoft solution sales
• Working knowledge of Microsoft technology (particularly Dynamics 365, Office 365 and Azure)
• Strong cross industry experience (Financial Services, Public Sector and Consumer Markets)
• Highly experienced working in partnership with Microsoft to develop business systems or cloud-based technology propositions to meet client needs
• Experience of working in an LLP organisation
• Demonstrable track record developing long term profitable relationships with mid and large sized organisations
• Can develop a demand generation strategy for a Microsoft solution sales team and lead the team to successful execution
• Hold led Microsoft centric transformation deals with values in excess of €2m
• Has led the development of solutions, consulting offerings and assets to drive repeatable sales
• Extensive experience working with senior stakeholders within a large consulting organisation or system integrator to develop pipeline, understanding of the unique  s

Service Delivery Security Manager

Team

The Service Delivery Security Manager role is in the KPMG UK Information Security function and reports directly to the Security Production Assurance & Compliance Lead.  This role is critical in the provision and delivery of secure, innovative, technology-enabled services and solutions for KPMG and our clients.  The role is vital to KPMG’s ability to demonstrate that we are delivering ‘secure by design’ services and solutions such that our business stakeholders, our clients and our regulators trust KPMG.

Role

The primary purpose of the role is to enable harmonious delivery of Security Services, by ensuring strong collaboration with the external Service Providers and entire range of KPMG business functions.  There are 3 main areas of focus:

• Manage the security services relationship to protect the delivery of the end to service services that involve all KPMG UK Technology services, or third-party suppliers.
• Provide governance for infrastructure security services
• Provide an overview of the complete set of services provided by all KPMG UK Technology services, or third-party suppliers and troubleshoot any issues and escalate as appropriate.

Key responsibilities are:

• Work closely with the Service Owners who are accountable for the end-to-end services, understand their roadmap for the service and the day-to-day operational requirements

• Maintain and lead the process to manage the Governance of these services
• Ensure firm standards and guidelines are followed, and contractual or operational commitments are delivered
• Review and govern the Service Provider Quality, Improvement Plans, Issues and Operational Risks, engaging the Security Production Assurance & Compliance Lead as required
• Raise and build consensus around issues or escalations and enable timely resolution.
• Govern Service Provider Knowledge Management, Knowledge Transfer, Reporting, Documentation and other engagement practices to ensure ongoing operational excellence
• Review Service Provider capacity plan to ensure it has enough capacity to meet the required demand and is in line with the Service Owner’s roadmaps
• Consolidate and provide reports on the delivery of Security services and initiatives across the relevant KPMG capabilities
• Ensure any planned changes across Technology or Service Provider are co-ordinated to ensure there is minimum disruption to Information Security services.
• Communicate major changes or enhancements in Information Security to Service Provider/ Business function and vice-versa
• Act as a single point of contact for general queries or issues flowing to and from the Security Function to the delivery teams
• Work closely with the Service Delivery Managers and Service Owners to ensure everyone has a clear view of the remediations and expectations
• Work closely with the Security Production Assurance & Compliance Lead to implement the operational security activities, processes and standards as determined by them.
• Build long-term stakeholder relationships including negotiating service levels, and defining project scope.
• Monitor, review and drive compliance to security policies, guideline and standards (as defined by KPMG) using compliance reports supplied by the Supplier and internal teams. You will escalate issues to the Security Production Assurance & Compliance Lead where necessary
• Use your experience to propose changes to existing policies and procedures based on feedback from Internal and Supplier Service Operations teams to Security Production Assurance & Compliance Lead to drive operating efficiency and compliance
• You will support incident and problem management teams in prioritisation o