Job description

The role sits within our KPMG Sectors Governance, Risk and Compliance Services (GRCS) practice. The team is based nationally and covers a range of sectors including consumer and retail, manufacturing, energy and natural resources, technology media and telecoms and life sciences.

The role

The Assistant Manager will play a key role in driving delivery on various Governance, Risk and Internal Audit engagement for clients across a number of markets. You will need to be adaptable and be able to respond to the dynamic landscape we are currently operating in and respond to client needs in areas such as ESG, Operational Resilience, Third Party Risk Management.

As an Assistant Manager in sectors GRCS there will be opportunities to be involved in a variety of engagements and support the development of key propositions.

• Supporting the managers/senior managers in the day-to-day delivery of a portfolio of internal audit, governance, risk and control engagements, SoX framework design and controls testing or External Quality Assessments.
• Identify and communicate findings arising from the testing results to senior management within the team and external stakeholders.
• Help identify performance improvement opportunities for assigned clients
• Working with a supportive group of managers/senior managers to develop innovative, market leading solutions and proposals
• Supervise, coach and review the work performed by associates and interns on the assigned engagements.
• Collaboration with a number of firm-wide subject matter experts providing assurance to clients on emerging risk areas.

Skills, qualifications and experience

The following could be required to be demonstrated during the role, but are not all required from the outset:

• 3 years or more experience in internal or external audit, internal controls, risk assessment/management, regulatory compliance or governance with either a leading company or within a consulting environment
• Strong leadership and communication skills, technical knowledge, and the ability to write at a publication quality level in order to communicate findings and recommendations to the client's senior management team
• Ability to identify observations and recommendations for business operations and control issues associated with key risk disciplines (including financial reporting, regulatory, and operational)
• Experience of managing internal and external stakeholders, including management level colleagues
• Strong ability to organise and prioritise your own work and that of others to meet project requirements
• Experience with project management principles
• Good communicator with the ability to build strong and lasting relationships
• Proven track record of delivering high quality outputs, on time and meeting/exceeding expectations
• Evidence of being an active listener, strong team player and willingness to develop new skills and capabilities
• Strong PowerPoint, Excel and Word skills