We have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Manager to join our Financial Services Audit team.

As an Assistant Manager, you will be responsible for the day-to-day high-quality delivery of audit engagements from planning through to completion.

Alongside audit delivery work, you will also supervise junior team members, and provide coaching and development to help them reach their full potential. This will include planning and reviewing their work to ensure the work quality is to a high standard. 

You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of stakeholder relationships at audited entities and can expect to work with senior level staff.

You will work closely with the Audit Manager, Senior Manager, Director and Partner, ensuring that they are kept up to date with progress, involving them on a timely basis in all phases of the audit and when issues arise. 

As an Assistant Manager, you will be responsible for the day-to-day highquality delivery of audit engagements from planning through to completion.  Alongside audit delivery work, you will also supervise junior team members, 
and provide coaching and development to help them reach their full potential. This will include planning and reviewing their work to ensure the 
work quality is to a high standard. You will be responsible for the day-to-day management of stakeholder relationships at audited entities and can expect to work with senior level staff.

About KPMG International

KPMG is a global organization of independent professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. KPMG firms operate in 143 countries and territories with more than 273,000 partners and employees working in member firms around the world. 

KPMG International acts as a coordinating entity, carrying out business activities for the benefit of KPMG firms. More than 2,500 talented colleagues make up the KPMG International team, with a focus on ensuring global consistency and providing expertise to support member firms in the achievement of KPMG's Trust and Growth ambition. 

KPMG International is comprised of a number of high-performing global teams, including Global Advisory, Global Audit, Global Clients & Markets, Global Corporate Affairs, Global People, Global Quality and Risk Management, Global Tax and Legal, Global Technology and Knowledge, the International Office of General Counsel, and the Office of Chief Administrative Officer. 

Working together, our global team is changing the way our business operates, delivering value to our member firms and driving positive change in the communities we serve.

About the team

Increasingly businesses are looking at how opportunities to buy, sell, partner, fund or fix a company can add or preserve value. 
.To gain and maintain competitive advantage, organizations are using mergers and acquisitions, alongside organisational transformation, as a way to accelerate change, growth and embed emerging technologies. 

To help clients navigate these strategic decisions, KPMG has an integrated deals and strategy business that has portfolio of global services covering strategy, restructuring, valuations, acquisitions divestiture, integration, and separation These are underpinned by value creation models, advanced analytics, strategic insights, and benchmarks to improve the pace and quality of the decisions that can be made. From helping clients to plan and implement strategic change to measurably increasing portfolio value, our experts focus on delivering tangible results.

The KPMG Deal Advisory (DA) practice forms part of KPMG Advisory which more widely supports clients on their business transformation journey – we are collectively focused on supporting our clients from deals to transformation. At the heart of our vision is “Elevate” our KPMG proprietary approach towards value identification and quantification and our key solution differentiator.  

Reporting to the Marketing Director, Global Advisory, the candidate will be a key member of the global KPMG Advisory marketing team focusing primarily on the marketing of our Deal Advisory practice. 

Role Summary

This complex and diverse role is responsible for leading the global marketing that will position KPMG strongly in the Deal Advisory marketplace. Within a fast pace and competitive market the role includes development of the necessary marketing plans, assets and toolkits for the KPMG member firms to activate, including global thought leadership studies and solutions campaigns for demand generation.   

The candidate  will work with colleagues in sector and functional marketing teams to promote our capabilities and support revenue generation. This individual will have one direct report supporting the DA agenda.

The Marketing Director, Global Deal Advisory will be part of the Deal Advisory leadership team and collaborate and build consensus with numerous stakeholders – including working closely with deal advisory leadership, and global and member firm marketing and communications teams, subject matter experts, and key third parties. 

All outputs and activities must be to the highest possible standar

The Ops and Supply COE within our Global Deal Advisory business. We specialise in supporting manufacturing, supply chain and procurement across the end-to-end deal cycle from operational due diligence, value creation, integration and separation. Over the last few years, we have established a reputation as the leading provider of operations deal advice on global transactions, particularly within the Life Sciences sector. Our team brings a depth of both industry and functional expertise, combined with an agile and value led approach to deliver at deal speed. We have large growth ambitions and a strong pipeline to enable further penetration into other sectors including Consumer and Retail, Industrial Manufacturing and ENR. We are looking for someone to bring extensive procurement experience in a deals environment to lead and drive our procurement proposition forward with an ambition to become a future leader in our Deal Advisory business. This is a fantastic time to join our team.

Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Manager

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Base Location: London, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester plus network of 20 offices nationally: www.kpmg88careers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations

Powered Enterprise is KPMG’s world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation approach for cloud-based solutions driven by a pre-defined back-office function based on leading practices and KPMG’s six-layer Target Operating Model. The target operating model comprises of service delivery model, people, process, technology, data & insight and governance & controls. This solution combines the breadth and scale of KPMG’s leading practice, capabilities and insight into what makes a world class corporate services function with the latest in ERP technology provided by the leading SaaS ERP vendors such as Oracle.

The Powered Apps teams are communities of technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver SaaS ERP and EPM based transformation programmes based on KPMG Powered Enterprise. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g. Planning, Finance, Procurement), coupled with their expertise in the cloud applications (e.g. Oracle, Workday, Coupa) to lead and deliver client programmes, to support pre-sales activities and to develop improvement and extensions to the Powered Enterprise model. KPMG are growing their Powered Apps team to meet an ever-increasing demand for our market leading services and are seeking IT management consultants with relevant expertise and experience.

Why Join KPMG as an Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) Manager

- Consulting?

· Communicating compelling and well thought out solutions for Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) in response to complex client problems.

· Supporting business development and project delivery activities across clients from multiple industries.

· System design and delivery, including release management, integration management, data migration strategy and management.

· Defining an overall Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solution leveraging leading practice solutions to support the business requirements.

What will you be doing?

· Recognizes the importance of continuous self and team development and actively strives to achieve this.

· Building constructive working relationships across different teams, functions, countries or cultures.

· Helps others to understand how their work contributes to the overall success of an engagement and the wider firm.

· Fosters a sense of self belief and confidence in others.

· Seeks to understand other’s motivations.

· Supports others to make brave decisions.

What will you need to do it?

· Educated to degree level or equivalent.

· Experience of multiple industry sectors - e.g. Public sector (local / central government), Retail, Higher Education, Financial Services etc.

· Experience of working effectively with senior client representatives.

· Experience in leading and delivering multiple full life cycle implementations of Oracle EPM Cloud products

· Experience with FP&A processes Planning, Financial close and consolidation, Reconciliation, Data management and other oracle cloud products

· Experience in design and Implementation EPM applications Primarily EPBCS, FCCS, ARCS, DM and EDMCS; experience in other processes like PCMCS and EPRCS would be advantageous

· Experience in Key finance and accounting processes that includes general accounting and corporate consolidation, financial planning and analysis, accounts payables and receivable, fixed assets, and Management Reporting

· Experience with governance controls, change management, conceptual data modeling, master data management,