KPMG’s Strategy & Performance Transformation practice is looking for exceptional candidates for an Associate Director role, with a Financial Services focus (ideally Banking or Insurance) and experience of at least one of our core propositions; Growth Strategy, Deal Strategy, Cost and Operational strategy and Enterprise-wide Transformation.

In the role, you will be responsible for managing and delivering our largest and most complex audit engagements to a high standard of quality, from planning through to completion. 

You will have your own portfolio of large and/or complex audited entities, with responsibility for agreeing audit timetables, briefing the audit team (including specialists), monitoring budgets and supervising the KPMG audit process. You will manage and nurture stakeholder relationships at audited entities throughout the engagement, working with senior level staff.

You are also likely to have a departmental role, facilitating the internal operations of running the business, for example, roles relating to finance, technology, quality, people etc. 

As an Audit Senior Manager, you will be responsible for leading teams and supervising the work of junior staff, providing coaching and development to assist them in the effective delivery of engagements. You will also have performance management responsibilities for a small number of employees.

KPMG’s Major Projects Advisory (MPA) team works with industry-leading organisations, helping to solve some of the biggest challenges in infrastructure. As a true market leader, we work with an impressive client base across the commercial and public sectors, delivering lasting results on projects and programmes which are household names.

We focus on providing clarity to Boards, Executives and SRO’s at major public and private sector organisations, on the delivery of their projects and programmes. We work on some of the UK’s most strategically important programmes, and across all infrastructure sectors including transport, natural resources, energy, power and utilities, corporates, oil & gas, defence, health, housing & education.

The Team - In Financial Transformation, we improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the finance function and generate real insights to help deliver value to the business. Our mission statement is to create a sustainable practice which is recognized as being number one in the industry.

Our Financial Transformation practice is a priority area for significant and strategic growth and the team works with leading Insurance (Life and General) organisations, focusing on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of their Finance & Risk functions. The key drivers of change for our Insurance clients are Regulatory and Accounting change (including UK SOX, IFRS17, SII), Cost Reduction and Non-Financial Reporting  Transformation and our service offerings reflect this demand.

The KPMG Audit Midlands function is a cornerstone of our business.  Operating from Birmingham and Nottingham we do work that matters, serving the region with diligence and expertise.

KPMG is one of the world's largest and most respected consultancies.  We've supported the UK through times of war and peace, prosperity and recession, political and regulatory upheaval. We've proudly stood beside the institutions and businesses which make the UK what it is.

We work with audited entities across multiple sectors including Insurance, Corporate Client, Listed and Retail.  This team is responsible for the delivery of best-in-class Audit solutions to a customer base who trust us to get it right first time.