Why Join KPMG as a Programme Assurance Manager?

We are looking for a transformation change professional to join our busy, growing team. Our Programme Assurance team works with clients to help them deliver their transformations successfully by helping them to navigate risk. We do this by using our delivery and assurance experience to review programme status, and where required, provide practical recommendations to help move our clients delivery forwards. We have expertise across areas such as: PMO, change, testing, data migration, early life support and service transition. Our portfolio of clients are undertaking change programme enabled by a range of technology platforms including SAP, MSD, Workday and Oracle. If you have been working in a PMO role, or as a project manager or workstream lead, we'd love to speak to you about this role. 

Key areas of expertise: 

Leadership & Management: Management of multiple engagements at one time working for a dedicated Senior Manager and / or Director. Leadership of the junior team to coach and develop their skills and experience around Programme Assurance.

Stakeholder Interaction & challenges: Engagement directly with senior stakeholders at our clients (for example Programme Directors and CFOs), robustly and articulately describing risks and recommendations from our assurance work. 

Impact, Risk, Accountability & Governance: Role will be contribute to risk management activities over large multimillion pound engagements which will run over a multi year period. Programme Assurance work is by nature high risk and this role will therefore need to be adhering to all KPMG risk processes.

Role requirements: 

• Full understanding of an end to end business transformation ERP programme, understands the challenges involved and therefore the requirements of programme assurance.
• Full understanding of all critical workstreams including PMO, business change, business architecture, testing, data and cutover / transition and ability to lead focussed reviews in these areas.
• Strong awareness of the key risks a programme will generally experience throughout the life-cycle and critically what mitigations are required to course correct.
• Ability to convert observations into risks with clear impact articulation and practical recommendations (not text book ones)
• Ability to manage multiple pieces of work (stage gates, deep dives etc) and align to other client side assurance activities (such as IA driven work). Ability to speak to internal Q&A teams using the right language around 1st / 2nd  / 3rd line etc.