The role of the Technology Operating Model Design Architect is to significantly contribute towards efforts to improve, and create alignment between, the business and technology functions within KPMG to ensure that the Firm can execute its strategy and achieve its primary goals. The Enterprise Business Architect must therefore have a good understanding of both business and technology strategy and concepts; requirements and designs; their mutual dependencies and impacts on one another; and an understanding of technology transformation and project management disciplines to create practical and feasible plans that deliver on the Firm’s primary goals.

With significant annual growth and ambitious plans for further expansion between now and the end of 2024, our team is home to one of the UK's leading Indirect Tax practices and an exciting place to be. Our expertise spans across the various indirect taxes in the UK - including VAT, Customs and Excise, Insurance Premium Tax and Environmental Taxes. We help clients to successfully manage their indirect tax compliance, to adopt and apply new technology, whilst also forging broader advisory relationships. It’s varied and pioneering work, which helps businesses to anticipate and manage change.  As part of this collaborative team, you’ll use your expertise to do work that matters, helping to create opportunity for clients in a world of increasing complexity.

The Lead HR Business Partner partners a business where there is a need for a distinct and articulated people strategy such as Performance Group or KBS functional team. The Lead HR Business Partner is a strategic partner within their area of the business, the key facilitator and enabler of the matrixed organisation and a driver of change. They are a member of the business area Leadership Team...

About KPMG International

Through helping other organizations mitigate risks and grasp opportunities, we can drive positive, sustainable change for clients, our people and society at large. KPMG firms operate in 143 countries and territories, and in FY22, collectively employed more than 265,000 partners and people, serving the needs of business, governments, public-sector agencies, not-for-profits and through KPMG firms' audit and assurance practices, the capital markets. KPMG is committed to quality and service excellence in all that we do, bringing our best to clients and earning the public's trust through our actions and behaviors both professionally and personally.

We lead with a commitment to quality and integrity across the KPMG global organization, bringing a passion for client success and a purpose to serve and improve the communities in which KPMG firms operate. In a world where rapid change and unprecedented disruption are the new normal, we inspire confidence and empower change in all we do."    

About the team

GISG (Global Information Security Group) is one of five domains within KPMG’s Global Technology & Knowledge group. GISG provides the information protection and technology infrastructure that secures KPMG’s technology environment and connects its network of member firms. GISG works with the other GT&K domains to ensure that appropriate security controls are in place for KPMG technology solutions.

Role summary

•    Provide Bridge between GISG Operational teams and ITS Global Major Incident Management Process
•    Coordinate Security Incident management activities across Regions
•    Provide Member Firms with Incident Response advice and support through the regional model
•    Provide guidance to GSOC Operational Teams on advice given to MF when escalating incidents
•    Provide Regionally aligned situational awareness to MF's and GSOC Operational Teams
•    Define, set up, and maintain repeatable Teams War Room structure
•    Define, set up, and maintain communication structure and templates for the three below high level incident types. Assist in coordination with GCISO to link into board level and regulatory comms requirements
•    Give Service Management the Security context of any Security Incident promoted to Major Incidents 
•    Assist in the delivery of Cyber War games and purple teaming activities
•    Initiate US Advisory IR assistance requests
•    Coordinate US Advisory IR activities when necessary

Key accountabilities

• Provide Security Incident Management Framework and coverage between GISG and the ITS Global Service Management Major incident management process
• Define and maintain a collaborative workspace structure for Security incident management activities, to enable near real time exchange of incident related information.
• Oversee the establishment, and provide ongoing management, of a Regional Security incident management model. The model should be based on Security Incident management/Incident response staff in each region
• Provide Incident response advice to all customers based on existing and expected Threat scenarios
• Provide feedback to GSOC, ISS and GISG management on prevalent threats encountered by the regional Teams
• Act as a coordination point for Cyber War Games and Purple team activities
• Act as a coordination point for Incident Response engagements with US Advisory 

Experience & knowledge

•  Experience of security incident response in a large, distributed organisation
•  Experience working in, or alongside, Security Operations Centres in

Qualified Actuarial Consultants - Non- Life Reserving

Base Location: London, Manchester and Edinburgh plus network of 20 offices nationally:

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The KPMG Actuarial Consulting function is a cornerstone of our business. Operating from our major UK offices 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 & Digital, Strategy, Forensic, Risk & Regulatory, People and Talent, and Operational & Financial Transformation, through to Cyber and Technology. We do that by immersing ourselves in our clients' organisations, applying sector knowledge and technology solutions to deliver the best possible outcomes.

As a Qualified Actuarial Consultant at KPMG you take a lead delivery role, managing small teams of advisors and auditors to a wide range of general insurance companies, in the Retail and Commercial sectors, including within Lloyd’s and the London Market. The entities that KPMG work with range from FTSE100 and global (re)in