This is an exciting opportunity to work within a fast growing general insurance team that is working across many different types of work and exposed to a variety of clients. The candidate will be working as a leader, within the team supporting both on development of opportunities in the market and development of more junior resource in team, whilst being integral to high quality deliverables to our clients.   

The Cost & Value Management team are looking for a Senior Manager to expand our delivery capacity to serve a growing pipeline of opportunities.

The KPMG Finance Transformation capability within our FS Consulting business specialises in delivering large scale Finance function transformation initiatives and supporting CFOs on a wide range of issues. Over the last few years, we have established a reputation as the leading provider of top-quality consulting and technology delivery services in the Banking sector. Our teams are recognised by our clients for the depth of industry and functional expertise they bring combined with our practical and innovative technology capabilities. As a result of our strategy and strong pipeline of exciting projects, we are looking to grow our Cost & Value Management capability. We are looking for candidates who bring a combination of technology skills and business acumen, possesses the ambition and potential to become future leaders of our Insurance Finance Transformation consulting business. This is an exciting time to be part of growing business.

Our Cost & Value Management practice is a priority area for significant and strategic growth and the team works with leading Investment and Retail Financial Services Institutions, focusing on understanding the core issues and opportunities, in order to deliver value-adding change across their functions. The key drivers of change for our clients are value creation and cost reduction, leveraging analytics capabilities to deliver these outcomes. Our service offerings reflect this demand.

The role will be working in the UK Cyber Security practice within Connected Technology – Technology Risk. Our clients are increasingly under cyber-attack and regulatory scrutiny to demonstrate effective management of cyber risk. Our specialists provide independent, jargon free advice and advanced technical capabilities to help our clients proactively manage cyber and technology risks to drive value from their business information assets whilst protecting business.

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. 

The Role 

• 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. 

The Person 

• 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. 

Functional skills: 

• 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, data standardization and data quality management 

• An understanding of the key business issues/drivers that result in clients pu