Are you a visionary leader who thrives on solving complex problems and steering digital innovation in the Audit & Assurance domain? Our Digital Audit & Analytics team is seeking a Senior Manager with a unique blend of accounting & data analytics, with a profound understanding of the potential unlocked through advanced data techniques. This role is pivotal in identifying and capitalising on opportunities to enhance the efficiency, quality and insight of our Audit & Assurance portfolio.
 
This position is suited for individuals with exceptional data literacy skills, and a data analytics background. As a Senior Manager, you will spearhead data analytics on Audit & Assurance engagements, navigating through the complexities of key finance and operational systems.
 
Joining KPMG’s Clara Analytics and Technology team, you will not only lead but also champion data analytics initiatives, providing strategic direction to engagement teams across all industries.
 

KPMG’s Powered Enterprise is the world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation framework for cloud-based solutions that covers all 6 layers of a customer’s Target Operating Model. It supports customers to make better and faster decisions that drives positive business outcomes, reduces implementation effort while improving ROI. It combines our leading business consulting practice, technology capabilities and insights into a complete solution for intelligent enterprises.

The Powered Apps teams are communities of business and technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver KPMG Powered Enterprise through a standardised delivery model. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement), technology expertise (S/4HANA, CFin, RISE, BTP, MDG, etc.) and SAP SaaS applications (Ariba, SuccessFactors, etc.) to enable customers run successful business transformation programmes enabled by SAP technology.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Finance Data & AI manager specialising in leading data-driven finance transformation programmes to join our growing Data Driven Transformation (DDT) team with a focus on delivering Finance data strategy and solution designs, Finance data migrations, and expanding our service offerings to drive the transformation of Finance functions through data and AI enabled technology solutions. You will work in fast-paced, cross-functional project teams utilising the latest technologies to deliver cutting-edge and transformational analytics solutions for our clients across a range of industries.

The DDT team is at an exciting stage in its growth, with significant investment in developing pioneering analytical products in the data, analytics, and visualisation space. These capitalise on KPMG’s alliances with Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Google and other technology partners.

The Finance Data Manager role will support our growth ambitions by playing an active part in these projects.  It will suit a highly driven individual with deep expertise in finance processes, a strong understanding of the finance data landscape, hands-on experience with leading market solutions and platforms, and a knack for managing large and complex data transformation projects. The right candidate will be enthusiastic about work in a fast-moving environment with exposure to lots of different client challenges and will be ready to make an impact on our projects from day one. 

The KPMG Audit Technology team is dedicated to building cutting-edge solutions in close collaboration with the Audit function. We blend audit expertise with the latest technology, enabling us to understand the challenges our customers face daily and develop indispensable products that simplify their lives while promoting Audit Quality.

The KPMG Clara engineering team is dedicated to building cutting-edge Analytics and AI products for our Audit business. We blend audit expertise with the latest cloud technologies to build and run products that simplify the lives of our audit colleagues while promoting Audit Quality.

As a crucial member of the team, you will collaborate with a talented mix of Product Owners/Managers, Solution, Cloud and Enterprise Architects, Experience Designers, Business Analysts, and Testing specialists to build, deliver, and manage a portfolio of truly exciting products.

• Extensive experience in prominent languages such as Python, Scala, Spark, SQL.
• Experience working with any database technologies from an application programming perspective - Oracle, MySQL, Mongo DB etc.
• Experience with the design, build and maintenance of data pipelines and infrastructure
• Robust understanding of design practices and system architecture and with a focus on data security
• Extensive experience of defining code review standards to drive quality
• Excellent problem solving skills with experience of troubleshooting and resolving data-related issues
• Experience working with cloud platforms and in particular architecting with native cloud resources relevant to data problems
• Extensive experience driving and leading Agile methodologies (Scrum, pair-programming etc)
• Have the ability to work in a cross functional team of Business Analysts and demonstrating an excellent understanding of business requirements.
• Strong communication skills along with ability to lead a team towards a great product/service and articulate technical strategies to non-technical audiences including clients at all levels including C-suite