As a member of the GBS team, you will be primarily focussed on working with clients in the public sector i.e. Central Government, Healthcare, Higher Education, Infrastructure, Local Government and Policing. You will be focused on the delivery of market leading GBS solutions to the public sector including GBS Strategy, Target Op Model design, GBS Transition/Implementation and Business Process Outsourcing advisory.

• Extensive experience in prominent languages such as Python, Scala, Spark, SQL.
• Experience working with any database technologies from an application programming perspective - Oracle, MySQL, Mongo DB etc.
• Experience with the design, build and maintenance of data pipelines and infrastructure
• Robust understanding of design practices and system architecture and with a focus on data security
• Extensive experience of defining code review standards to drive quality
• Excellent problem solving skills with experience of troubleshooting and resolving data-related issues
• Experience working with cloud platforms and in particular architecting with native cloud resources relevant to data problems
• Extensive experience driving and leading Agile methodologies (Scrum, pair-programming etc)
• Have the ability to work in a cross functional team of Business Analysts and demonstrating an excellent understanding of business requirements.
• Strong communication skills along with ability to lead a team towards a great product/service and articulate technical strategies to non-technical audiences including clients at all levels including C-suite

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KPMG’s Corporates Indirect Tax group focusses on the large corporates market, is a well-established group of around 30 dedicated indirect tax specialists who help UK and international headed groups address all of their indirect tax advisory needs. The team has specialists in many different sectors.

We assist our clients by managing and advising on projects as part of multidisciplinary and multijurisdictional teams and provide specialist indirect tax advice on a variety of complex issues and we are shameless in our desire to pioneer and our drive to seek out new opportunities.

Base Location: We would look at London, Birmingham, Manchester, and Leeds plus network of 20 offices nationally.

Who are we?

KPMG is one of the world's largest and most respected consultancies. The Technology Risk practice sits in Enterprise Risk Services (ERS): one of seven super service lines across KPMG’s Advisory business. Operating from all over the UK we do work that matters, serving the Country with diligence and expertise.

Our IGH (Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare) Technology Risk team is a multi-disciplinary team that offers a wide variety of assurance related advisory services to help our clients build digital trust in their organisations. This includes IT internal audit, IT risk management, independent programme assurance, clinical systems assurance, GRC tooling and Tech Transformation (AI, Strategy etc). We are proud of helping our clients to innovate and navigate regulatory and governance challenges along the way and work closely alongside other specialist technology teams in IT Consulting such as our CIO Advisory, Cyber and Data Analytics teams as well as our wider Tech Risk teams in Financial Services and Corporates.

Our team is committed to helping our clients to develop and deliver key UK public services and infrastructure. We aim to make a difference.

Why join KPMG as an IGH Technology Risk Assistant Manager?

• You will be getting hands on exposure with some of the most exciting and largest public sector organisations across the UK.
• The Technology Risk team has seen significant growth in IGH meaning you will be joining at a time of real significance.
• We have a very friendly and collaborative team culture.
• You’re working with a huge variety of different teams and subject matter specialists across the advisory landscape. 

 What will you be doing?

Job Profile 

To ensure high quality and accurate payroll service to our clients whilst managing and developing the core payroll team. Working alongside the existing payroll manager the new role will help grow payroll services for both domestic and global clients.  

We are looking for a self-motivated, confident payroll professional with an analytical/logical approach. They must have the ability to think creatively whilst ensuring all compliance requirements are met. Maintaining and building excellent working relationships with clients and internal teams they will be expected to identify any process improvements, system developments and training needs.