The KPMG Audit Scotland function is a cornerstone of our business.  Operating from Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow, 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 Retail and Corporate, with a strong imprint in the Oil and Gas Industry.  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.

Cloud Director

At KPMG, you will bring your industry knowledge and technology experience to map customer business challenges to on-premise and cloud technology solutions, shape end-to-end transformational journeys, and deliver real business value to our key Corporates clients. In this role, you will be part of some very exciting client engagements, lead pre-sales activities/proposals and be responsible for delivering our portfolio of technology solutions, whilst maintaining deep executive-level client relationships.

As part of this leadership role, you will also inherently lead our brilliant teams, and coach and mentor junior members in their own career progressions whilst contributing to our overall go-to-market activities through building the KPMG brand and being visible as a leading advisor within our clients, the market, and our alliance partners.

The Cloud Transformation Director role will have the following responsibilities:

• Be visible and seen as an expert in cloud transformation (including Hybrid & Multi-cloud) by the market and alliance partners alike
• Contribute to developing our financial services market growth in cloud transformation, with market facing propositions and assets, building both the KPMG and your personal brand
• Build close working relationships and be a trusted advisor to the C-suite leaders at our financial services clients, focusing on business challenges and opportunities, cloud transformation and more broadly their end-to-end technology journey
• Lead business development opportunities as a core focus in the financial services market through shaping and selling of complex, multi-stakeholder advisory and implementation services around cloud transformation.
• Organize, monitor, and lead programme delivery, outcomes, and resources in large transformation programmes
• Design and build roadmaps, implementation strategies, transformation plans and high-quality assets targeting cloud solutions for the customer organisation with the aid of delivery managers, sales colleagues, and senior customer stakeholders
• Contribute to our wider capability group by developing new services and our people

The Person

• Excellence in consulting skills, with the ability to present complex solutions to business executives. Previous experience in a large consulting organisation is a plus
• Proven business development experience, leading client proposals and RFP’s for cloud transformation and migration projects
• Have the experience and gravitas to build a deep trusted advisor relationship with C-level client stakeholders to guide them how to progress their cloud journey
• Experience doing application migrations including target selection, infrastructure sizing and costing, and familiarity with leading migration tools present in the market
• Knowledgeable in at least one of: AWS, Azure, Google, micro services, APIs, containers, cloud data models, cloud integration, and cloud migration patterns like rehost, refactor, rearchitect
• Experience working in regulated environments and a deep understanding of operational resilience best practice
• Track record in leading advisory engagements of complex large-scale cloud transformation and migration.
• A broad understanding of key concepts such as infrastructure, network, database, cloud operating models, risks and controls, regulatory provisions, security, DevOps, Agile, and cloud testing for cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google
• A proven ability to shape long-term, complex and large-scale cloud journeys that can encompass a full range of cloud capabilities
• A history of overachievement of sales and profitability targets in a consulting environment
• Outstanding interpersonal skills with the ability to inspire teams and develop excellent client relationships
• Embraces a growth mindset for business development, with an ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Collaborative ways of working with clients and KPMG teams
• Self-motivated and able to inspire and motivate others
• Team player and thrives in a diverse culture

You will be a Senior Manager within our Tech Transformation Practice (aligned to WAM Consulting) and will be helping both grow our business and ensure our teams deliver high quality advice to clients. You should expect to be involved in a wide range of challenging client engagements across the WAM value chain for clients from across the ecosystem. As a Senior Manager you will be expected to lead on the delivery of key client work items such as leading programmes or being responsible for building KPMG IP. 

It is also expected that you will lead and manage more junior members of the KPMG team as part of project delivery. You will be an example to more junior members of staff who will look to you for advice, guidance and development support.   

As a Senior Manager it is likely that you will also be required to support Directors and Partners with business development activity such as helping with proposition development, proposals, RFP responses and pipeline management.

In addition to supporting the build out of the client proposition for technology, you will also be expected to support the development of the practice in a broader sense, such as through the development and nurturing of junior talent, training, internal communications and contribution to the positive culture and supportive working environment.

You’ll be joining our team that support the NHS and other public sector organisations in optimising its cost base through finding productivity and efficiency opportunities at an entity and system level.

You will sit in our Customer, Operations and Infrastructure team, with a focus on Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare (IGH) clients. This team provides in-depth advice on the strategic, financial, regulatory, operational, customer and commercial issues driving investments and operational decision making across the public sector. This ranges from providing strategic advice to financing investments, to optimising cost in existing structures and organisations, to working with the public sector to develop the business cases and delivery plans to get change approved within government.

Our healthcare practice is market-leading and covers a broad range of NHS and broader public sector issues on everything from clinical strategy, to operational excellence, to economic and financial modelling. Given our position as a leading advisor to the NHS, we are frequently approached to support the most complex and high profile programmes. Joining our team will expose you to work on a range of high profile assignments helping providers, commissioners and regulators address their most challenging issues. You will benefit from working with and alongside specialists from a number of disciplines and experts from our Global Centre of Excellence.

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that work with everyone from enterprises to national government bodies and 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.

The business is expanding rapidly and is looking for a high-quality candidate to support this growth.

We are looking for Managers to join our team in the London office.

Actuarial Assistant Manager – Non-Life – KPMG – Consulting

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The KPMG Consulting function is a cornerstone of our business.  Operating from London we do work that matters, serving the country 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.

By encompassing a wide range of disciplines across a breadth of areas such as Strategy, Forensic, Risk and Regulatory, People and Talent, and Operational and Financial Transformation, we become immersed in our clients' organisations, applying sector knowledge and technology solutions to deliver the best possible outcomes and get it right first time.

Why Join KPMG as a Actuarial Assistant Manager – Non-Life?

We are seeking additional Assistant Managers to continue to support the length and breadth of actuarial based services, in our core propositions, namely: reserving; capital; and pricing projects, as well as exposure to ad-hoc projects outside of this.

What will you be doing?

• Calculation of reserves, using different assumptions, by applying a variety of actuarial techniques: