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KPMG’s Innovation Reliefs and Incentives team is made up of tax, engineering, science and technology specialists delivering expert advice to a broad range of clients across almost every industry sector. As one of the largest teams in the industry, our continued investment in innovation advisory means that we seek engineers, scientists and tax professionals to join us on the next exciting phase of our growth.

Our team works with clients from owner managed business, to large multinational organisations, and we are looking for an Assistant Manager with a strong financial, accounting and tax background to assist clients across a suite of innovation advisory services including R&D tax Credits, Patent Box, R&D Allowances, Grants and Innovation Advisory services. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with an Honour/ Post Graduate Degree in finance, accounting and tax or other related discipline that either has industry financial experience or working knowledge of the R&D tax legislation.

KPMG’s Pensions Advisory business continues to build out its new pensions team, and requires individuals that can bring different skill-sets to the team. We are looking for a talented and experienced Senior Manager to join our team, who will be responsible for working closely with colleagues in the area of defined contribution pensions.

• Advise member firms on the implementation of KPMG information risk and security standards / requirements related to Incident Management .
• Recommend and support member firms to enforce defined security policies and global technology standard.
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge base following global incident trends, security advisories and alerts, information on global standard and best practices.
• Vulnerability management and controls validation: Evaluating and selecting vulnerability assessment and other security assessment capabilities, as well as deploying, operating and maintaining these technologies and adjacent processes

The Strategy group’s teams work with C-level Executives to identify, structure and solve their most critical strategic issues across the economic and transaction cycles. As part of a fast-paced and dynamic group, our consultants offer strategic advice on financial, business and operating models to corporate, public sector and private equity clients.

Within the Strategy group team we have an established pricing strategy practice, serving number of sectors including retail, consumer goods, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, transport and industrial manufacturing sectors serving UK, European and international clients. We work with C-level executives to identify, structure and solve their most critical strategic issues related to deal strategy, and growth strategy.

Role summary

As Senior Enterprise Architect, you will be responsible for establishing the Application and Technology domains within the EA team, developing appropriate architecture, ensuring alignment with relevant initiatives in the Business and Data domains (i.e. the Integrated Value Chain program), and establishing appropriate metrics
You will manage/oversee architecture governance within your domain(s).

You will contribute to driving strategic alignment between KPMG International’s business and technology, enabling architecture-driven transformation

You will act as a single point of contact for EA initiatives in your domains (both within KPMG International and within the wider KPMG organization), integrating decentralized efforts into a coherent architectural landscape, supporting federated governance, distributed decision-making, and continuous improvement.

You will own and evolve Technology Blueprint, which is a cornerstone for KPMG’s enterprise-wide technology strategy and governance approach. For this you will collaborate with business and IT stakeholders to ensure the Blueprint supports enterprise objectives.

As part of your remit, you will actively engage in horizon scanning to identify and assess emerging technologies and trends within the Technology and Application domains, ensuring KPMG International remains at the forefront of innovation and strategic opportunity.

Being a member of a small team, you will contribute to building out and maturing the EA function within KPMG International and the wider KPMG organization, helping to establish best practices, frameworks, and a collaborative team culture.

This is an exciting opportunity to work closely with senior business and technology leadership across the organization, strengthening our EA capabilities. You’ll be part of a global team, based in The Netherlands, yet collaborating across (primarily US east coast, UK and India) time zones.