You will be a senior manager within the Cyber Resilience team helping both grow our business and also ensure our teams are able to deliver high quality advice to clients. You should expect to be involved in a wide range of challenging engagements, ranging from major executive level exercises and threat reviews, through optimisation of client resilience controls and large resilience programmes, to providing specialist support in areas such as business continuity, technology and cyber resilience and GDPR.

Our clients are under regulatory scrutiny, but are also continually battling to match a rapidly changing global business threat landscape while harnessing the opportunities o

Programme Manager

The Programme Manager one or projects at any one time in an efficient and effective manner, and is responsible for their delivery within agreed timescales, budgets and conformance to agreed requirements. This person is also responsible for leading more junior PM’s and the efficient utilization of assigned staff and any associated third parties. They are accountable for ensuring that all project activities conform to the company’s quality management standards and processes.

Responsibilties

• Plans and manages one or more projects assigned, keeping the customer and senior management informed about project progress;
• Compiles and agrees the project plan with the client.
• Compiles and agrees with the client any Statements of Work in line with contractual arrangements with the client.
• Monitors progress against project plan and budget, correcting and / or escalating abnormal situations when necessary;
• Maintains the Project Plan, in particular with forecast completion dates and impact analysis;
• Tracks actual costs vs plan (using Microsoft project and our internal Dynamics AX time recording system);
• Maintains awareness of all ongoing non-trivial problems towards their solution. Ensures that project objectives are met;
• Monitors and controls all individuals allocated to the project ensuring that all project activities are carried out in accordance with the appropriate standards. This includes ensuring that activities are planned and executed in line with the KPMG Microsoft Business Solutions project delivery methodology;
• Manages any third parties that may be involved as sub-contractors within the project, as relevant, and ensures that any deliverables are produced on time, to required quality standards, and in line with agreed commercials;
• Ensures Risks and Issues are being correctly assessed and reported. Pro-actively predicts and mitigates risk;
• Participates in client reporting sessions, including as relevant, weekly progress review meetings and (typically) monthly Steering Committee meetings
• Tracks actual vs. budgeted costs and effort on a weekly basis;
• Plans and monitors any validation activities with the customer to ensure that all requirements are met;
• Plans and monitors any internal verification activities, including any reviews, walkthroughs and testing, and oversees the correction of non-conformities to ensure quality of all project deliverables;
• Plans and monitors release and implementation activities (e.g. release and/or implementation plans, hand over/support documentation, etc.);
• Works very closely with the Solution Architect on an ongoing basis in ensuring the overall quality of deliverables prior to release to the client;
• Receives, analyses and co-ordinates the implementation of project/system live changes requested by the customer when applicable;
• Addresses all project customer satisfaction issues, escalating feedback as necessary for further action;
• Participates in KPMG Microsoft Business Solutions resource management, utilisation and capacity planning processes.
• Minimises non-billable resource utilisation on projects, and escalates as required with the Senior Programme Manager and Resourcing to optimise billable use of resources. Escalates any forecasted requirements for non-billable effort with the Senior Programme Manager in order to maintain awareness and if possible mitigate. Tracks non-billable effort against the project budget;
• Contributes towards continuous refinement and improvement of our best practice project delivery methodology. Offers advice and mentors more junior Project Manages and members of staff. Liaises with peers to provide assistance and convey lessons learnt as required, in order to promote and improve t

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 KPMG Infrastructure, Government & Healthcare (IGH) business is growing and because of investment in a new and strategic business unit we are now looking for sales leaders who can contribute to our ongoing success in this sector by positioning KPMG as a technology transformation partner to our clients. This role will be at the forefront of leading client and industry relevant responses to requirements in the market which align to KPMG’s capabilities to deliver digital resilience, risk and cyber solutions, Cloud transformation programmes, data, analytics, and sustainability propositions.

CE Solution Architect 

KPMG Microsoft Business Solutions is building a world class Microsoft Dynamics Practice:  The team is focusing on advisory and implementation services that relate to the implementation of Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CRM & ERP). This will include leading the implementation of these systems and engagements relating to Independent Programme Assurance where third parties are delivering such programmes. 

The Senior Solution Architect role is required to lead the technical delivery of Microsoft Dynamics 365/CRM centred solutions on large complex programmes or a portfolio, drive deep technical expertise within DevOps and functional leadership within the practice to deliver quality, client-centric solutions. Provides deep industry expertise to build and cultivate strong business relationships at a senior level. The role will champion innovation both within the firm and with clients, sharing Thought Leadership within the practice across the relevant Industry specialism. Collaborating with the Global team to enhance the out of the box Dynamics functionality, giving KPMG a unique selling point and also a resalable asset. Takes a leading role in identifying development needs of team members and provides coaching, mentoring or stretch assignments to support individuals achieve their full potential as well as promoting collaboration across team.

Role Responsibilities 

• Leads customer delivery of our Microsoft Dynamics 365/CRM centred solutions on large, complex programmes or portfolios, through the management of a team of professionals and possibly with the contribution of cross-functional/team specialists
• Contributes to the management of commercial and contractual aspects of an engagement to achieve expected levels of quality and profitability
• Executes projects to a level that meet member firm’s quality standards within a commercial context.
• Manages scope and delivers timely and quality deliverables
• Provides inputs/takes a lead in the creation of innovative and repeatable solutions that strengthen business performance and differentiate KPMG from our competition.
• Responsible for ensuring our pre-sales engagements are delivered with the same rigour and attention to detail as our client engagements. 
• Identify business/project risk and mitigates as necessary, does not undertake work that does not fit with firm capabilities or Risk Management criteria
• Deliver all consultancy according to the MBS and/or KPMG Methodology, ensuring that all software applications are implemented successfully according to the project plan
• Holds review on completion of projects to identify lessons learned and enhance future quality and commercial planning
• Works on CPD to maintain Microsoft accreditation status and keeping up to date with technical developments.
• Role models Firm values and behaviours, actively promoting and supporting inclusive collaboration within the Practice
• Demonstrates the abilitiy to drive change through motivating and influencing team members. 

Knowledge and Skils (including Qualifications)

• Deep technical expertise in DevOps and broad working knowledge of technical and functional capabilities of Dynamics CRM including appropriate certification is essential .
• Strong technical architecture experience is essential especially around integrating Microsoft Dynamics CRM with other solutions such as other Microsoft products and third party or legacy systems.
• Extensive experience of leading the end to end delivery of multiple complex CRM so