KPMG’s Strategy & Performance Transformation practice is looking for exceptional candidates for a 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 Team

We are looking for passionate individuals to join our Asset Management Advisory (AMA) team, part of the KPMG Infrastructure Advisory Group (IAG). Our team advises infrastructure owners in both the public and private sector, including government with their most complex challenges. IAG is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading independent financial and business advisers in infrastructure consisting of over 380 professionals.

Our team leads exciting projects across both public and private sectors principally focused on major capital and infrastructure portfolios in Transport, Energy, Water, Defence, Oil and Gas and Health. This is a fast-growing area offering many opportunities building upon a global capability in Asset Management where we provide:

• Asset Strategy and Transformation, including operating model design and transformation of asset management functions.
• Asset Health and Performance including investment planning, efficiency improvements in capital and operating expenditure, as well as asset resilience, asset data, investment business cases and benchmarking.
• Digital asset management including asset performance and financial modelling and smart technology.
• Investor assurance of asset performance and transaction due diligence support.

KPMG maintains a robust network of strategic Alliances and partnerships with leading technology, data, and services organisation, including Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, and ServiceNow. These Alliances enable KPMG to deliver global reach, enhanced value, and a comprehensive suite of transformational capabilities and solutions to address clients' most critical needs and challenges.

As a member of the EMA Alliances team, the role holder will contribute to the growth objectives of KPMG member firms through effective alliance management of the Oracle Alliance. This includes maintaining consistency and collaboration to position KPMG as the preferred choice for clients and Oracle. The primary focus will be on developing, expanding, and managing the Oracle Alliance within the EMA region, as well as strengthening KPMG's regional relationship with Oracle.

The role holder will also collaborate with the Global Oracle Alliance Director and counterparts in ASPAC and the Americas to ensure the successful implementation of the Global Oracle Strategy across regions and to facilitate network-wide collaboration.

The role will report to our EMA Head of Alliances and EMA Oracle Alliance Platform Lead, with input from Global Oracle Alliance Director.

Role summary

The Director – Global Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) Lead, holds a pivotal strategic role within KPMG’s Global Information Security Services (ISS) function.   This role will set the strategic direction for CSIRT, within Global, embedding AI into the core capabilities and leveraging its findings to drive enterprise-wide transformations across firms.  This role must navigate complex regulatory requirements, managing high risk and high pressure decisions, supporting but not limited to providing recommendations to implement isolation of member firm from the network, inline with the crisis protocols

This role presents an exciting opportunity to join a growing team and play a key part in building and shaping the future of the Cyber Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT) across the global organisation. Reporting directly to the Global Head of ISS, the Director will stand up the new global CSIRT capability, by developing and leading the continuous improvement of the processes and technologies that support core CSIRT services.  The role will be accountable for budget allocations, resource planning across multiple regions, leveraging 3rd party resources where required to support demand.

The ideal candidate will be a strategic thinker with the ability to design, implement, and oversee CSIRT operations. They will ensure KPMG maintains the capability to respond to and recover from cybersecurity threats on a 24/7 basis across its global network, managing cross-border leaderships, informing Global leadership, IOGC, GCISO, GSIO and equivalents within member firms of key finds to support actions carried out that could lead to disciplinary consequences.

This role also involves staffing and leading a high-performing team dedicated to managing both cybersecurity and information handling incidents within KPMG, mentoring other leaders across the firms and driving talent strategy

This role will be required to act as cyber commander (part of a roster) during a critical or major incident and supporting cyber commanders when off roster.

Role summary

KPMG is a digital business, and as a result, technology enables everything it does and requires KPMG to continue to transform with technology in support of its Growth and Trust agenda. This role, which is focused on Intellectual Property (IP), Technology and Data, is an important part of IOGC. It involves the provision of legal advice  to KPMG International leaders and their teams on: (i) complex, strategic technology procurement and supply chain matters, especially technology leveraging data and analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies, (ii) strategic alliances and partnering with technology providers, (iii) complex strategic, change management and legal remediation projects, and (iv) the amalgamation of supplier-developed technology and IP into AI-enabled platforms developed and managed by KPMG International. This role also involves driving the development and on-going management of procurement and alliance templates, playbooks, guidance and best practice principles, and developing and providing training to IOGC and procurement professionals on the use of them.   

This role requires a person to influence, collaborate with, and provide significant value-add to business and technology development teams (particularly those in the Global Business Functions, Global Procurement, Global Alliances and Global Technology & Knowledge) by enabling and supporting a diverse range of IP, technology and data matters that support KPMG’s Collective Strategy, the Global Business Functions’ strategic goals, and our “Artificial Intelligence First” mindset, all while supporting IOGC’s senior leadership team in managing, mitigating and preventing legal, commercial and reputational risk.

The person performing this role is expected to drive substantial cost savings by performing complex matters internally without reliance on external counsel.

The person in this role is expected to execute their responsibilities under the overall supervision of the Partner-equivalent co-leads of the IP, Technology and Data group (the Legal Head of IP, Technology and Data and a Principal/Associate General Counsel) or, where delegated by one of them, the most senior Global Director lawyer with respect to the commercial technology transactions, and:

(a)          with a significant degree of autonomy while exercising appropriate judgment on when to consult/escalate; and