KPMG’s Strategy & Performance Transformation practice is looking for exceptional candidates for an Associate Director role, with a sector focus on the Consumer, Retail & Leisure industry and with particular experience in Deal Strategy, one of our core propositions. Additional experience across our other propositions - Growth Strategy, Cost and Operational strategy (including Economic Profitability Analysis) and Enterprise-wide Transformation - will also be valuable.

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 Advisory business.

Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations Solution Architect

KPMG Overview:

The Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) business unit at KPMG is looking for a Dynamics 365 F&O Solution Architect with extensive experience across all phases of large-scale enterprise Dynamics 365 F&O projects. With a hands-on approach and proven experience in end-to-end implementations, strong understanding of primary process and procedures combined with practical knowledge of interfacing and integration with Dynamics products. A demonstrable history of consultancy experience is a must as this role will entail continuous interaction with clients, managing onshore consultants, working alongside both onshore and offshore development teams.
Specifically, we want to extend and expand our on-going advisory services post implementation into our evolution service, chiefly responsible for the on-going improvement and stabilisation of the solutions and platform, the improvement through adoption of new features and technology and the on-going benefits realisation remediation the implementation delivered. Using your experience and expertise as a solution architect, you would assist building out the evolution service, and subsequently you would work with multiple customers to deliver the evolution agenda, providing continuous improvement and working across our wider team.
 

This role is therefore key to KPMG Microsoft Business Solutions’ customer delivery of Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations solutions. It is a dynamic and exciting opportunity to join a rapidly growing business area within an established and market-leading global Big 4 firm.

Specifically, we want to extend and expand our on-going advisory services post implementation into our evolution service, chiefly responsible for the on-going improvement and stabilisation of the solutions and platform, the improvement through adoption of new features and technology and the on-going benefits realisation remediation the implementation delivered. Using your experience and expertise as a solution architect, you would assist building out the evolution service, and subsequently you would work with multiple customers to deliver the evolution agenda, providing continuous improvement and working across our wider team. The solution architect experience would be paramount to ensure clients understand the proposition and delivery of the offering, and have a trusted person to reach out to for the execution of it.

Evolution Responsibilities:

• Work alongside and understand pre-sales, sales and delivery and overlay where we can propose additional, differentiating evolution type services to each stage of client engagement.
• Lead and own the creation and maintenance of the evolution service agenda, materials and delivery derived from such findings.
• Participate in the pre-sales and sales stages as well as during on-going delivery upsell to help close evolution engagements.

The Deal Execution 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 105 practitioners, working collaboratively with and orchestrating KPMG’s broad set of capabilities within our Advisory business, and are focused on continually enhancing value for clients across the deal and economic cycle. Our teams comprise of specialists capable of helping clients right through from conceptual thinking of buying a business to turning their business around in times of difficulty.

The People in M&A Centre of Excellence deals with all aspects of the employee journey in M&A, as well as leveraging our experience to enact transformational change outside of a deal context. From early-stage strategy development and organisational design for carve-outs, to synergy cases and cost benefits, employee experience and corporate culture, employee transfer, through to the conception, development and management of effective transformational solutions to help an organisation achieve its ambitions and objectives. 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. Above all, we are driven by a passion to help our clients execute transactions and transformational change efficiently, maximising value through people and ensuring a smooth people transition.