The Vendor Management team is part of the Technology Business Management function within Enterprise-Wide Technology (EWT) reporting to the Commercial & Vendor Management Lead.  The team is responsible for the day-to-day management of EWT major Tier 1 and 2 Vendors including key Managed Services Outsourcing contracts and Software deals. The team works closely with the EWT Senior Leadership and IT Procurement Teams, inputting into the overall IT Sourcing strategy which underpins EWT and KPMG Business Strategy.

 

The EWT Senior Vendor Manager will play a pivotal role in driving value, innovation and delivery assurance to realise the commercial strategy and financial control with our key vendors.

The role will be a key interface between the EWT Service Ops and Platform Engineering teams, who are responsible for operationalising the services delivered by the Vendors and KPMG Technology Procurement who play a key role in the contracting process.  

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.

Our Public Sector Audit team operates across all aspect of the UK Public Sector. Our portfolio includes entities with the NHS, Central Government, Local Government, Charities, Higher Education Institutions and Social Housing.

 

Our Public Sector Audit team therefore provides you with the opportunity for specialism, whilst maintaining variety in the sectors and clients you work with. The team also deliver several Companies Act audits for subsidiary entities within their portfolio. 

 

You will have your own portfolio of large and/or complex audited entities across a range of sectors, with responsibility for agreeing audit timetables, briefing the audit team (including specialists), monitoring budgets, and supervising the KPMG audit process. You will manage and nurture stakeholder relationships at audited entities throughout the engagement, working with senior level staff.

Our Transaction Services practice comprises approximately 500 people across the UK, organised to align to KPMG’s market orientated structure, and is at the heart of the Firm's agenda to increase its penetration of boardrooms and work with clients across the economic and transaction cycle.  Our team works closely with colleagues across Deal Advisory as well as Tax, Audit and other Advisory teams; it is a multi-disciplinary and international environment that sits right at the heart of our One Firm agenda. We are recruiting Associate Directors in our Private Equity, Financial Services, Corporates and Capital Markets teams across the UK to support the growth of our TS business.

We are looking to recruit a senior individual to improve our technology resilience and recovery capabilities across the UK firm, including those supporting Cloud and on-prem infrastructure, applications and data. You will build and lead our Resilience & Recovery team, creating risk-based resilience and recovery strategies, plans and roadmaps for our technology; create and maintain failure scenarios to guide invocation and recovery across multiple teams; and periodically test recovery plans, ensuring that recovery targets, including Recovery Time Objectives (RTOs) and Recovery Point Objectives (RPOs), can be met. This is a vital role that will help KPMG to identify, mitigate and manage significant risks in our technology estate.