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The Team


The Innovation Reliefs and Incentives team is looking to expand with the appointment of an R&D Associate based in central Bristol.

The team assists businesses carrying out qualifying Research & Development activities to claim incentives from the UK government. The team works with businesses from almost every sector of the economy to identify their qualifying Research & Development activity, quantify it and obtain the relief for them.

The Role


This role requires an individual with a technical (scientific / engineering / software development) background to work with our local incentives team to accelerate the growth of our business in this region. You will be required to use your technical knowledge and experience to assist clients in making claims for Research & Development Tax relief. (Please note that no prior knowledge of this regime is required.)

Responsibilities

You will be required to:
• Work with the engagement team to understand client operations, develop claim methodologies and prepare Research & Development claims for submission to HMRC.
• Assist in the delivery of services to our clients, including liaison with client staff as well as internal KPMG resources.
• Build an internal network within the wider tax practice of the firm.
• Help to establish and maintain strong client relationships with both existing and new clients; this will involve travel and meetings on client sites.
• Lead in progressing business development opportunities and to pitch for work with both new and existing clients.

The Individual




Qualifications and Skills
• Science or technical degree to 2.1 level.
• Excellent communication skills in a range of situations with internal team members and senior staff at the client. In particular having an ability to explain complex technical concepts in simple language.
• The ability to deal with technical and finance staff on a one to one to basis, conducting structured discussions.
• Capable of producing documentation (using word and excel) to a high level of quality for submission to HMRC.
• Able to manage own workload.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Team player.

Experience and Background
• Experience of working in industrial product or process development (preferred, not required).

The Campaign Executive position will focus on campaign delivery. The individual will sit as part of the newly established Marketing Centre of Expertise team and will support the management and development of our marketing programmes in conjunction with a team of marketing professionals across our Campaign Management function.

The Marketing Centre of Expertise (CoE) operates a matrix model of expertise in defined marketing capabilities and organised in clusters aligned to our business units. The CoE leads on marketing delivery, supports brand management, digital enablement and also provides account management to support the Marketing Business Partners (BP). CoE teams are experts in specialised areas and are deeply involved in co-creation and delivery.

Campaign delivery is at the core of our new operating model for marketing. The Campaign Executive will support the project management of our campaigns by delivering our creative, data, digital and content development processes.

The role holder will manage projects to ensure that content, creative assets and the usage of marketing channels support the delivery of the brief, meet our brand and regulatory requirements and they actively involve our business and marketing colleagues throughout their development to ensure buy-in, quality and effectiveness.

This includes undertaking the requirements of our brand and regulatory processes and supporting the business review of content and marketing campaign assets.

You will have the ability to work on activities across multiple stakeholders, channels, programmes and activities ensuring that your work and focus aligns to the relevant project timelines and any issues or challenges are flagged to the relevant colleagues in a timely and effective way.

The role will include engagement and interaction with business stakeholders, marketing agencies and colleagues across the marketing function to capture their input, feedback and work to ensure their buy-in throughout the campaign development process.



Description of the role:

- Support the development of our marketing programmes with a focus on project coordination, completing process requirements and required documentation and reporting.
- Contribute and drive the delivery of creative development, data, digital and media processes
- Input to, collate and manage the distribution of agency briefs, data and client insights.
- Manage the application of business feedback and amendments to campaign assets and identify areas of conflict or concern to Campaign Managers and relevant stakeholders
- Deliver campaign financial processes including PO management, reconciliation and campaign spend forecasts
- Coordinate and arrange collaboration with agency partners and other marketing teams including booking in relevant support requests
- Deliver the requirements of our brand and regulatory processes across deliverables including brand, risk and data management policies.
- Extract and arrange for the submission of campaign reporting, CRM data management and third party data sources including client insights and competitor activity
- Lead on the deployment of internal launch plans and communications for marketing campaigns.


Role dimensions

Leadership & Management

This role will report to the relevant Campaign Manager.

Stakeholder Interaction & challenges:

The ideal individual for this role will be energetic and highly-organised, someone who enjoys taking on responsibility and making a positive contribution to the activities of the UK Marketing team.

You will be professional, able to work within budget to the exacting standards required in a leading professional services environment.

Proactively engaging with business teams and senior stakeholders you will be able contribute to conversations around business feedback and how the campaign and the resources supporting its development can respond to address this feedback effectively.

Bringing initiative and drive you will be comfortable working independently but seek and advice and guidance from colleagues when needed.

You will understand the importance of good relationships both within and outside the organisation, using your influencing and negotiating skills to ensure that relationships with third parties work to the best advantage of KPMG, and to promote collaboration, understanding and positive contribution internally.



Core technical competencies

- Marketing project management experience
- Experience of the development process for marketing campaigns including content, digital campaigns, event communications and social media including agency management
- Stakeholder engagement including business contacts and agency partners administrative skills for key marketing process including budget, meeting management and coordination
- Familiarity of using brand visual identity toolkits and guidelines
- Effective written communicator and able to contribute to messaging development and review
- Able to apply risk and compliance processes effectively
- Understand the role of data for marketing and comfortable managing data and using Excel as part of campaign reporting and targeting
- Experience with marketing platforms and tools including management and setting up campaigns in solutions such as Salesforce, Marketo or Adobe.
Core behavioural competencies

You will be at heart of the delivery of world-class marketing for KPMG in the UK, able to effectively drive change through a complex matrix organisation and successfully embed our new operating model.

- Effective organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects in a complex and matrix environment
- Good attention to detail and a commitment to developing high quality work
- Proactive and able to identify potential future issues or challenges, working as part of a team to address them
- Balance creativity and innovation our business processes and risk management policies
- Enjoy an agile and flexible work environment with an ability to work with different teams, business areas and campaign types on an ongoing basis
- You will have strong interpersonal skills, be a good communicator and embrace collaboration
- You will be inquisitive around the commercial drivers for the business and how the marketing campaign is tasked to support these.
- You will understand the need to build good relationships, creating useful networks internally and externally, and proactively use these contacts to support you in resolving conflicts or challenges.


Expertise/ Technical role requirements:

- BA university degree or equivalent
- Completed or working towards a professional marketing qualification (CIM) preferred.
- Experience of B2B marketing.
- Highly proficient in all MS Office packages
- Knowledge of CRM and marketing campaign systems


Skills:

- Understanding of project management techniques
- Marketing campaign skills including digital marketing
- Understanding of budgeting and forecasting
- Creative skills including reviewing copy and visual/image selection

The Team
Joining the growing Cloud Engineering team in our Technology & Engineering Division, the DevOps Engineer is responsible for development operations, server and user administration, and code deployment for KPMG’s back end cloud applications and products

You will be working to continuously advance and standardise our clients infrastructure and deployments, whilst collaborating with colleagues to write infrastructure as code that scales and takes advantage of the technologies used.



The Role


- Help design and build monitoring systems, metrics, internal dashboards, and other tools that allow KPMG clients to become increasingly, scalable, and reliable infrastructure.
- Continue to cultivate a culture of collaboration, innovation and bringing industry standards to everything we do.
- You have a current understanding of public and private cloud services.
- You understand the fundamentals: Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure, Private), Windows, Linux, Security and Networking.
- Automation and repeatability are at the heart of everything you do.
- Use of any of the following: Python, Nodejs, C#, Cloudformation Templating, Ansible / Salt, Octopus, Team City / Jenkins
- You've built highly scalable, secure, efficient, and resilient systems.
- Ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision.


What we can offer


- Scale, some of our clients are well known global brands, their infrastructure isn't small.
- A great team environment, inside and outside of the work place.
- Love of technology and learning about even newer technology to help our clients be successful.
- Flexible and considerate working hours.
- Access to regular training opportunities and certification which can include Internal, AWS and Pluralsight.
- Generous pay and benefits such as a subsidised lunch, health care, pension, cycle to work, free day off to celebrate your birthday.
- Excellent relationship with vendors and access to authorities within their field.

The Team

The Cloud Engineering mission is to be the best cloud team ever by doing the right thing, using the right tools, failing fast and automating like our lives depend on it.

We operate at genuine scale partnering the big three public cloud providers and have our own private cloud to deliver cutting edge solutions to clients on a global stage. If the public cloud is your future and you’re amazing at solving difficult, interesting and complex challenges and actually writing code, roll up your sleeves then drop us a line and remember to bring cake when you meet us.


You will be working to continuously advance and standardise our clients infrastructure and deployments, whilst collaborating with colleagues to write infrastructure as code that scales and takes advantage of the technologies used.

The Role
• Help design and build monitoring systems, metrics, internal dashboards, and other tools that allow KPMG clients to become increasingly, scalable, and reliable infrastructure.
• Continue to cultivate a culture of collaboration, innovation and bringing industry standards to everything we do.
• You understand the fundamentals: Cloud Technologies (AWS, Azure, Private), Windows, Linux, Security and Networking.
• An ability to automate processes.


The Person

• Cloud Technologies exposure (AWS, Azure, Private), Windows, Linux, Security and Networking.
• You will have used the following - Python, Nodejs, C#, Cloudformation Templating, Ansible / Salt, Octopus, Team City / Jenkins
• You have experience building highly scalable, secure, efficient, and resilient systems.
• Ability to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal supervision.
• You like nothing more than to watch colleagues flourish under your guidance.
• You love steering a very willing team to increase performance and efficiency.
• Be a technological cloud advocate to a wider audience inside and outside of the business.


What we can offer
• Scale, some of our clients are well known global brands, their infrastructure isn't small.
• A great team environment, inside and outside of the work place.
• Love of technology and learning about even newer technology to help our clients be successful.
• Flexible and considerate working hours.
• Access to regular training opportunities and certification which can include Internal, AWS and Pluralsight.
• Generous pay and benefits such as a subsidised lunch, health care, pension, cycle to work, free day off to celebrate your birthday.
• Excellent relationship with vendors and access to authorities within their field.