Job Title/Req Number: Forensic Manager Data Analytics

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

The KPMG Forensic function is a cornerstone of our business. Operating from London / Regions, we do work that matters, serving the country with diligence and expertise.

KPMG is one of the world's largest and most respected consultancies. We've supported the UK through times of war and peace, prosperity and recession, political and regulatory upheaval. We've proudly stood beside the institutions and businesses which make the UK what it is.

By encompassing a wide range of disciplines across a breadth of areas such as Customer Experience and Digital, Strategy, Forensic, Risk and Regulatory, People and Talent, and Operational and Financial Transformation, we become immersed in our clients' organisations, applying sector knowledge and technology solutions to deliver the best possible outcomes and get it right first time.

Why Join KPMG as a Forensic Manager Data Analytics

KPMG’s FS Forensic Financial Services practice is a key contributor to the Firm’s strategic growth initiatives. We have achieved rapid year-on-year growth since the team’s inception and have set ourselves ambitious targets to maintain the momentum. We possess a strong pipeline of work for the year ahead and continue to develop innovative market-leading solutions for our clients. We now need an experienced and dependable Manager to assist in converting the existing pipeline, expand it with our current offerings and to develop Data Analytics propositions.

Our managers are responsible for managing the delivery of a range of financial crime projects with a particular focus on Data Analytics. Each project will generally incorporate a review and assessment of the current state of compliance, discussing matters directly with the client, proposing and delivering solutions, and providing oral presentations. They will be expected to collaborate across FS Consulting to deliver the best solutions for our clients.

The role will also involve the opportunity to take a leading role in our growing team of Data Analytics specialists, supporting the delivery of a range of financial crime projects and delivering comprehensive and well-considered solutions to clients’ challenges. A core part of the role will also include leveraging your industry contacts, skills, and experience to contribute to winning work and knowledge sharing and practice development across the team.

What will you be doing?

• Managing financial crime engagements or projects from scoping, analysis, and execution of the project, through to reporting (including delivery workstreams focusing on data modelling).
• Managing the risk and commercial aspects involved in the delivery of projects including budgets, planning, and project governance.
• Taking accountability for the successful delivery of engagement outputs and Client outcomes.
• Providing structure and direction to the delivery of engagement activities.
• Supporting relationships between Vendors and Clients to translate system ‘jargon’ into business terminology.
• Building positive and collaborative relationships with senior Client stakeholders.
• Facilitating collaborative and fulfilling working environments for the Client and KPMG staff on engagements.
• Managing and mentoring more junior colleagues from diverse backgrounds during projects and as part of the KPMG appraisal process.

Business Development

• Building and leveraging both internal and external relationships to support senior stakeholders to contribute to business development opportunities.
• Contributing to the development of responses for proposals (RFPs) to Client opportunities.
• Developing innovative and Client-

KPMG’s Deal Execution practice is looking for exceptional candidates for an Associate Director role, with a technology, digital, AI and M&A specialisation.

The Cyber Response & Recovery Manager role will be working in the Cyber Response Services (CRS) Team within our Cyber Advisory practice, reporting directly into the head of cyber response. Cyber security is one of the areas which KPMG has identified for tremendous investment and growth. Our clients face a challenging cyber threat and look to us to help them understand and respond to that threat.

The Cyber Response & Recovery Senior Manager role will be working in the Cyber Response Services (CRS) Team within our Risk Consulting practice, reporting directly into the head of cyber response. Cyber security is one of the areas which KPMG has identified for tremendous investment and growth. Our clients face a challenging cyber threat and look to us to help them understand and respond to that threat.

This is a hands-on and operational management role with opportunities to grow into service line leadership. The successful candidate is expected to manage a broad range of cyber-security incidents as well as perform digital forensics (disk, volatile memory, network packets, logfiles) and help advance KPMG’s incident response processes and methodologies.

In this role we are looking for a person who can demonstrate strong technical background, significant experience in incident response and digital forensics and is looking to grow into an incident response leadership role as part of a growing team. You will be expected to lead a number of incident response case managers and practitioners, as well as have the opportunity to work with, and learn from, the service leadership as part of your continuous development.

As a firm we help our clients navigate their biggest issues and opportunities. We aim to be universally recognised as a great place for great people to do their best work – a firm known for our collaborative and inclusive culture. And we will take pride in driving lasting, positive change in society.

KPMG's Commitment to Inclusion: We are proud of the value we place on individuality; we want you to bring your full self to work and truly maximise your potential. We believe that your individuality helps us to deliver the best results for our clients. Diversity of background, diversity of experience, diversity of perspective - that's the KPMG difference. 

KPMG research shows that 2/3 of deals fail to deliver value, and amongst the top reasons are People and Culture.

HR M&A was set up as part of the Integration & Separation (I&S) team in Deal Advisory, which has been growing year on year and seen by our clients as a market leader. We have worked on some of the largest and most high-profile client engagements in the deals space, including multi-billion spins, integration of global mega mergers, disposals of non-core assets for large multinationals. We have launched a market differentiating digital engagement platform for M&A as well as a campaign focused on ‘the Human Side of Deals’, and we continue to drive digital innovation.

This is an opportunity to be part of a fast growing, dynamic, working flexibly, collaborative culture and diverse team, made up of HR deals professionals working alongside with deal execution teams on large scale, global integrations, separations and Joint Venture, across a range of sectors (Financial Services, Healthcare, Real Estate, Consumer, Industrial, Technology, Media and Telecommunications or Business Services). We work together to develop solutions to the issues our clients may face and understand the financial benefits or risks that may be present from a people perspective.