This is an exciting opportunity for a talented professional to join our Department of Professional Practice – Audit (DPP Audit) capability at Senior Manager level. We are a dynamic team of passionate and highly skilled professionals, working hard to support our audit teams in the field to get things right first time.  

Summary of Role Purpose:      

As the digital workplace changes, CEOs are prioritising learning, skills, and workforce planning. AI is increasing the skills gap, creating significant demand for re-skilling and up-skilling, and opportunities to help clients design learning and workforce solutions.

This is an exciting time to be joining our team! You will have the opportunity to work with FTSE100 clients across a broad range of industries, including Energy, Telecoms, Retail, Life Sciences and Aerospace & Defence, shape our approach to learning and workforce transformation and further develop our brand and capability.

We are looking for a skilled professional who shares our enthusiasm for the potential of learning and workforce solutions. This individual should be committed to making a meaningful difference for both individuals and organisations, while contributing to the development of innovative solutions and helping us position ourselves as thought leaders in the field.

You will join our People Practice which is an integral part of KPMG Advisory and is a growing part of our business. This team helps to transform organisations by focusing on the people lens of any transformation. We do this by focusing on 4 key capability areas:

•         Learning Solutions

•         Workforce Transformation

•         People Centric Transformation

•         HR Transformation

Across these capabilities we support our clients around: digitally enabled employee engagement; skills and capabilities; learning transformation, agile organisation and workforce; shaping the future of the workforce; people change and leadership capability; value-driving efficient and cost-effective HR, powered by tech.

Description of the role:   

We are seeking a Manager with experience in large scale People Centric Transformations who will bring experience, insight, and energy to drive complex solutions for our clients.

We are specifically looking for an individual who has experience in learning solutions, learning op model, skills and capability analysis and strategy build, future strategic workforce planning, and an understanding of AI solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience of learning consulting with large, complex clients.

We are looking for a candidate who wants to grow their leadership experience and practice at KPMG, who is also passionate about developing their team members and expanding their knowledge of emerging learning and capability solutions.

Role dimensions: 

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Work closely with FTSE 100 clients primarily across a diverse set of corporate clients, for example Energy, FMCG, Telco, Pharma, Life Sciences, and Media
• Lead learning and workforce projects and workstreams with a small team of consultants, to drive business change, integrating across large multi-disciplinary programme teams and providing direction and knowledge on the learning and workforce side of the solution/ implementation
• Build and manage existing relationships with clients, and support in generating new client opportunities
• Take a lead role in continuing to innovate our learning and workforce tools and assets
• Take a lead in knowledge sharing and developing skills internally across our team
• Be a coach for consultants helping them to develop and progress their careers

The Person.  Required Skills and Qualifications:

You will ideally have proven consultancy experience in helping clients to shape and deliver their learning transformation programmes and solutions including:

• Learning strategy & planning
• Learning op model
• Training needs analysis
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Title: Strategy & Performance Transformation, Industrial Markets and Defence - Assistant Manager

Location: London

The Opportunity

KPMG’s Strategy & Performance Transformation practice is looking for exceptional candidates for an Assistant Manager role, with experience in Industrial Markets and Defence (IM&D) across one or more of our core propositions: Enterprise-wide Transformation, Growth Strategy, Cost and Operational Strategy, and Commercial and Operational Due Diligence.

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 practice.

Our Strategy & Performance Transformation team works closely with c-suite and senior executives to identify and execute transformation opportunities that add and protect value for shareholders, employees and society. As the world continues to face unprecedented levels of change, we have experienced significant market demand for our core services. We are now accelerating our mission to create value, by turning ambitions into reality, through executing sustainable, fair and profitable business strategies, at pace.
 

Responsibilities

To be an effective Assistant Manager within our Strategy & Performance Transformation applicants will be expected to:

• Liaise effectively with clients while working on engagements and act as an 'ambassador' for KPMG
• Design and run small projects and / or large, complex workstreams with limited oversight
• Product client-ready deliverables that exceed expectations and require limited review
• Develop solutions to complex problems and challenge the thinking of more senior colleagues and clients
• Contribute to thought leadership and knowledge management activities
• Construct detailed financial / business models performing complex scenario and sensitivity analysis
• Ensure the firm's risk management frameworks are adhered to
• Be a strong effective team player
• Provide timely feedback and coaching to other team members
• Support practice development activities to ensure successful delivery of initiatives

The Person

Skills and Experience

Successful applicants will demonstrate the following:

• Experience working in a leading strategy house, Big 4 firm, public sector organisation or strategy / development team in industry
• Strong foundational understanding of the value drivers within IM&D
• Experience of leading project workstreams and take responsibility for small teams
• Prior involvement in business development activity and ability to contribute to thought leadership and knowledge management initiatives
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with team members and broader (internal and external) stakeholders 

Technical Skills

• Evidence of strong problem-solving & analytical capabilities
• Structured thinking skills combined with creativity
• Ability to evaluate complex challenges and deliver insightful recommendations that can be practically executed
• Ability to gather, review and assess large volumes of technical data and distil the key strategic insights
• Strong num

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Due to our ongoing growth, we have a number of job openings for exceptional candidates. This posting is for a role focussed on Alternative Investment Fund tax and would be well suited to a driven and motivated candidate with experience in the Alternative Investment Fund sector. We would also like to hear from candidates who have experience of working in a tax team within an alternative investment fund.