Qualified Actuarial Consultants - Life

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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 across a wide range of client projects such as IFRS 17 impact assessments and implementations, finance transformations, companies mergers and acquisitions, providing advice on capital models or supporting our own Audit colleagu

We are seeking a skilled and experienced, client facing, Cyber Security Engineer with a strong focus on cloud security to join our security team. The successful candidate will play a critical role in securing multi-cloud environments, embedding in client teams to deliver robust protection across platforms including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

This role requires hands-on technical expertise, strategic thinking, and the ability to collaborate across engineering, DevOps, and security teams to embed security principles into cloud-native architectures, with a working knowledge of Secure Architecture concepts.

KPMG has one of the leading Indirect Tax practices in the UK. We work as a national practice providing advice and support in all aspects of Indirect Tax (VAT, Customs Duty, Green taxes) to a broad range of business sectors including large multi-nationals, household name retailers, public sector organisations and Financial Services.  The Indirect Tax practice is a fast-growing and dynamic business, currently with approximately 200 professional staff located across the UK.  We work to support our portfolio of clients with a variety of Indirect tax issues. 

In order to support our plans for our North of England Indirect Tax team, we are looking to recruit a motivated individual with a commercial edge who is seeking a real challenge, at Director level across our Indirect Tax business, to build on our successes to date and help us achieve our growth targets.

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.

Director, Business Solution & Service Design

• Grade: A
• Capability: Audit
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Team: Innovation & Deployment
• Sub-Team: Solutioning (Product Lifecycle)
• Experience Level: Director
• Location: Canary Wharf or UK-wide

Job Summary

KPMG Audit Technology is building a world-class product organisation. We are looking for a visionary, business-outcome-focused leader to establish and run our new Business Solution & Service Design function. This is a critical team that will ensure we build a cohesive, user-centric, and rationalised product portfolio, transforming our technology landscape from a collection of fragmented, siloed applications into a service-oriented ecosystem designed around value streams.

The Director, Business Solution & Service Design is the senior Product counterpart to the technical architecture team within Engineering. This role is responsible for shaping and leading strategic business initiatives through a business capability, value stream, and user-experience lens. While highly technically literate, this role is decisively business-outcome focused. You will act as the primary bridge, ensuring that business capabilities, operational workflows, and logical data needs are clearly defined, mapped, and translated into logical blueprints that Engineering's technical architects can seamlessly execute.

The ideal candidate will champion robust service design principles, drive application rationalisation based on business utility, and ensure our product roadmap is optimised to deliver seamless end-to-end user journeys. Professional Services experience, and preferably knowledge of Audit within the Big 4, is essential. 

We are seeking a talented individual with experience of Procurement implementations and detailed working knowledge of Source to Pay software including one or more of the following; Coupa, Ivalua, Oracle, GEP, ZIP, ORO or ServiceNow. While predominantly focusing on ensuring successful delivery of our programmes you will play an important role in several key areas, including:
•    Procurement Solution Architectures – driving business strategy that meets the relevant client business, technology and regulatory requirements
•    Delivery Excellence – achievement of high-quality outcomes in the delivery of products or services to our clients. 
•    Practice Development – Ensuring that the team continues to deliver value to our clients through understanding leading practice developments, potential disruptors to the market in the shape of new technologies (including Agentic AI, intake and orchestration) and helping to ensure the team are sufficiently equipped to support our clients
•    Sales Support – Providing your experience and knowledge into the sales cycle ensuring our clients are set up for success