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KPMG Overview:

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax & Pensions, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 17,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.


People Consulting:

People Consulting is an integral part of KPMG’s Management Consulting practice. The team draw upon the knowledge of a wide range of in-house experts, as well as collaborate globally with other People Consulting teams, to enable organisational transformation. The team revolutionise the way people are led, managed and developed, to ensure organisations of all shapes and sizes are future-ready.

Client megatrends and challenges which People Consulting is accustomed to dealing with include regulatory changes, disruptive technology, globalisation, changing customer needs, demographics and business impact on the environment.
People Consulting focus upon a number of key areas to support these challenges including: digitally enabled employee engagement; skills and capabilities; agile organisation and workforce; shaping the future of the workforce; people change and leadership capability; value-driving efficient and cost effective HR, powered by tech; predictive insightful people consulting.


The Opportunity:

• We are seeking talented individuals with experience in Workforce Transformation to design and shape the future workforce for our clients, taking a data and evidence led approach.
• Through Workforce Transformation we help our clients to navigate complex workforce transformation programmes through identification and adoption of workforce strategy, skills, workforce mix, employee experience, location, change management and more.
• An expanding area for us, and a hot topic for many of our clients, you will have the opportunity to shape our Workforce Transformation offering and develop our capability.
• You will be working closely with FTSE 100 clients across a broad range of industries including Energy, Telecoms, Retail, Life Sciences and Aerospace & Defence.


Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required:

• You will have proven experience in helping clients to shape and deliver Workforce Transformation solutions including:

o Designing workforce transformation programmes to roll out data-driven workforce strategies that maximize the capabilities to match future ambitions
o Strategic Workforce Planning: developing future proofed organisational structures fit for a digital environment, moving away from traditional hierarchies and functional groups
o Operational Workforce Planning: developing solutions to challenges faced by our clients in resource management, capacity planning and short term workforce planning.
o Workforce Analytics: utilising data analytics to drive insight on people and organisation from organisational data
o Workforce Optimisation: ensuring that the workforce is optimised to move quickly between products, services, tools and geographies to meet client needs

• You will be proficient in some of the workforce management and analytics tools such as Microsoft WPA, Kronos, Retain, PowerBI, Tableau, Qlickview, Splunk.
• You will possess knowledge and experience in the workforce analytics modules of key human capital systems such as Workday, Oracle, SNOW.
• Advanced excel/data modelling skills are desirable but not essential


Key Responsibilities:

As a Manager in our team we will expect you to:


• Shape projects, or workstreams within in a larger programme, to improve the way clients deliver Workforce Transformation
• Manage projects, or workstreams within in a larger programme, comprising of roughly 4 consultants
• Build and manage relationships with clients on a daily basis
• Leverage your Workforce Transformation expertise and network to generate new client opportunities
• Contribute to the development of our Workforce Transformation propositions and assets
• Take a lead in knowledge sharing and developing Workforce Transformation skills within our team
• Be a career coach for up to 4 consultants helping them to develop and progress their careers

Joining KPMG means joining a talented team of exceptional colleagues who bring innovative thoughts and a natural curiosity to the work they do each day. No one type of person succeeds at KPMG; a diverse business requires diverse personalities, characters and perspectives. There really is a place for you here.

At KPMG, our values define who we are and the way we do business. As a leading professional services firm, we know that our strength and capability come from our people – their different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds. From our inclusive leadership strategy to our diversity and inclusion targets – we’re making bold changes to who we are and what we do. Be part of it.

Introduction to KPMG's Reward practice

The Reward practice at KPMG is a dedicated national team that advise on the design, tax, market practice, corporate governance, regulatory and accounting aspects of management and broader employee incentive structures. The team advises on incentive plan design and structuring, drafting plan documents and advising on the tax, legal, regulatory and corporate governance aspects of incentive arrangements for both UK and global clients. The successful applicant will want to be involved in business development activities, including client proposals, internal and external presentations and writing articles and alerts on technical and other matters.

The team is looking for individuals with experience of advising on the tax aspects of incentive arrangements to come into the team and work primarily on the design, implementation and tax advisory aspects of incentive arrangements, with the opportunity to work across other work streams within the team.

Both the National Market business and the Reward team, particularly in the South, have grown in recent years and this role offers candidates the opportunity to join a business area which has wider leadership support to build upon its success and continue to grow.

What KPMG’s Reward practice is looking for from its consultants:

- Team players who enjoy working with people from different backgrounds and disciplines
- Intellectually curious, open-minded and analytical people, with an eye for detail and pride in their work
- Proactive professionals who deliver a great service to their clients
- Relationship builders who can spot and develop new opportunities both within the KPMG network and externally
- Flexible people who are able to deal with a fluid, changing, work environment

Why you might want to join KPMG’s Reward practice:

- We encourage our team members to develop and maintain specialisms across the broad range of reward / share plans work including listed and unlisted and UK and global work. In particular there is opportunity to work across both the reward consulting area and our more traditional tax and equity based offering
- You are looking to broaden out your experience to include executive reward, global tax and/or regulatory advisory work
- You want the opportunity to develop client relationships and KPMG’s reward capabilities
- You want to join a growing team that is expanding its offering to clients
- You want to achieve a sustainable work-life balance

Qualification and Skills

- The applicant will have a relevant professional qualification. e.g. ACA/CTA qualified (or equivalent) or qualified solicitor with share plans experience of listed and unlisted and UK and global share plan work. We would also consider exceptional candidates with employee, transactions and/or private client experience
- Strong academic, technical and personal skills are a pre-requisite
- Strong project management, including the ability to plan and monitor deliverables, budget and timescales
- Effective time management, able to act under own initiative and remain calm under pressure
- Ability to lead and manage others and work across disciplines
- Ability to identify and manage areas of risk within clients' business and know when to refer upwards
- Strong communicator in a range of situations both written and oral

Experience and Background

The successful applicant will be a reward / share plans specialist who:

- has a good understanding of the UK tax and legal issues that may arise in relation to long term and equity based incentive arrangements
- has experience of drafting legal documentation, employee communications and technical advice
- demonstrates excellent organisational skills and ability to work under their own initiative
- is either working in professional services with a reputation for delivering high quality technical advice in this space; or
- working in industry but able to demonstrate the ability to deliver in a professional services environment when tested

We recognise that as individuals, we each have particular needs and that one size doesn’t fit all, when it comes to how, when and where you work. That’s why we’re proud to offer our colleagues agile working options. We believe in putting you at the centre of your career – KPMG will offer the training, development and stimulating work environment to help you get to where your career ambitions are. That’s why we introduced ‘Our Deal’ – it’s our way of saying ‘thank you’ for bringing your best to work. As part of ‘Our Deal’, you’ll benefit from a range of rewards from secondment opportunities and preferential banking services to a day off on your birthday and have open, honest conversations about your career development.

KPMG Overview:

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax & Pensions, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 17,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.


People Consulting:

People Consulting is an integral part of KPMG’s Management Consulting practice. The team draw upon the knowledge of a wide range of in-house experts, as well as collaborate globally with other People Consulting teams, to enable organisational transformation. The team revolutionise the way people are led, managed and developed, to ensure organisations of all shapes and sizes are future-ready.

Client megatrends and challenges which People Consulting is accustomed to dealing with include regulatory changes, disruptive technology, globalisation, changing customer needs, demographics and business impact on the environment.
People Consulting focus upon a number of key areas to support these challenges including: digitally enabled employee engagement; skills and capabilities; agile organisation and workforce; shaping the future of the workforce; people change and leadership capability; value-driving efficient and cost effective HR, powered by tech; predictive insightful people consulting.


The Opportunity:


• We are seeking talented individuals with experience in HR Transformation to join our People Consulting Corporates team.
• You will join an established and highly successful HR Transformation practice, with the opportunity to leverage our leading practice methodologies and continue our growth.
• You will be working closely with FTSE 100 clients across a broad range of industries including Energy, Telecoms, Retail, Life Sciences and Aerospace & Defence.


Skills, Qualifications and Experience Required:

You will have proven experience in helping clients to shape and deliver HR Transformation solutions including:

• HR Assessments: reviewing the current operating environment with the objective to identify issues and opportunities for improvement
• Operating Model / Service Delivery Model: developing and implementing a Service Delivery Model which includes definition, design and implementation of roles, responsibilities, span of control within HR, governance structures, HR Shared Services and CoE strategy, development and set up
• Business Case and Roadmap: building the business case to demonstrate a value proposition for senior management to make a decision to move forward projects
• HR Technology and Strategy: understanding of cloud based technology (ideally Workday, Oracle and / or SuccessFactors) and a point of view on how HR tech drives HR Service Delivery
• Cloud implementation: experience of working on a HR cloud system implementation is desirable but not essential
• Experience as a HR Practitioner would be desirable but not essential


Key Responsibilities:

As a Senior Manager in our team we will expect you to:


• Shape client programmes of work, to drive HR functions of the future through process, operating model or technology change
• Manage large programmes of roughly £2m revenue, comprising of upwards of 6 consultants
• Effectively manage all commercial and contractual aspects of a client programme
• Develop a portfolio of clients and maintains strategic relationships
• Leverage your HR Transformation expertise and network to generate new client opportunities
• Identify opportunities to expand or extend existing programmes
• Lead the development of our HR Transformation proposition and assets
• Be a career coach for up to 4 consultants, helping them to develop and progress their careers

The Team:

We help our clients make critical business decisions using modelling and data analytics. We work with large corporates nationally and internationally on business issues across their entire organisations. We make use of a broad range of technologies (Excel, VBA, SQL, Python, Qlik, Tableau, Power BI) to support our clients evaluate options, make business plans, forecast financial impacts, monitor performance, and identify and remediate data issues. If you enjoy translating complex business problems into technical solutions, this is the team for you.

We are looking for a Senior Manager to join our Corporate Modelling team in London, responsible for our data modelling propositions.

The Role:

Contributing to and driving the growth of the modelling team focused on corporate clients

Leading large projects to support clients in tackling business issues our corporate clients face

Reviewing data models and analytics solutions for quality assurance sign-off

Building constructive working relationships to develop internal and external networks

Leveraging existing managerial experience and leadership skills to help grow and develop the modelling team

Building strong client relationships and assist business development efforts including taking new propositions to the market and pitching for new work

Managing teams of modellers and other professionals to provide high quality and flexible modelling solutions for a diverse range of clients

Managing both onshore and offshore delivery teams

End to end engagement and stakeholder management including day to day project management

You will use existing Excel, VBA, and/or SQL skills to support delivery and develop capabilities, share knowledge on solutions, and best practice techniques

Supporting the professional development of the junior members within the team through mentoring and coaching

Developing tactical solutions for automation of corporate services, data quality checks and data remediation

Development of data models to support modelling and analytics deliverables

Incorporation of VBA within the model to streamline Excel processes

Using visualisation and analytical software (such as the Power BI, Qlik and Tableau) to drive insights from data to inform client decisions

The Person:

Experience as a senior manager in consultancy, actively winning modelling work and delivering on engagement

Experience in developing modelling and analytics propositions and taking out to market

Experience in developing new strategy and propositions to generate business

Experience in working with large and multinational organisations

Experience scoping, designing and building financial and data models in best practice

Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously

Experience in building and maintaining strong working relationships across a range of teams

Experience in performance management and developing & retaining talent

Strong IT skills in data analytics and automation (Excel, VBA, SQL)

Strong communication skills. Able to describe complex technical issues in a clear and non-technical way

Desirable Experience:

A first-class or upper second-class degree (or international equivalent) in a numerate subject

An accounting qualification such as ACA or CIMA or an finance qualification such as CFA are desirable but not essential

Technical experience in Python, C#, PowerShell are desirable but not essential

Experiences of cloud based technology, such as Azure and AWS are desired but not essential