People & Change - Senior Manager at KPMG

Position Summary

KPMG People & Change wish to recruit a Senior Manager to analyze clients’ needs, develop strategies, and lead a team to deliver tailored HR solutions, ensuring compliance to KPMG policies and professional Standards.

Key roles and responsibilities

The Senior Manager will have the following responsibilities:

• Plan and manage client engagement risk and project budget.
• Manages engagements or projects to consistently achieve specific revenue and profit objectives and deliver designated engagement deliverables. 
• Provide technical knowledge, direction and training to the engagement team to produce quality deliverables.
• Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders/ clients.
• Contribute to proposal development efforts by driving market initiatives through involvement with relevant markets team.
• Generate revenue as per the allocated target to meet the team budget
• Support the development of strong delivery teams.
• Involvement in community and office initiatives.
• Build industry knowledge through involvement in events, articles and thought leadership.
• Ensure compliance to policies, standards and procedures.
• Ensure delivery teams are appropriately supervised, coached and supported to ensure no write offs.
• Leverage on client relationship and work with team members to ensure collections are done in line with agreed timelines.
• Any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:

• Must have a Master's degree in Accounting, Business, Human Resources Management, or related relevant degree course
• Membership of a relevant professional bodies such as CIPD, IHRM.
• Must have a minimum 10 years of experience in human resource consulting.
• Experience in managing HR engagements within East Africa.

Technical competencies and Personal attributes:

• Strong consulting skills. Be able to effectively support all aspects of engagement delivery, end-to-end, with minimal supervision and high accountability.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills, with the ability to proactively engage and consult with others across all levels.
• Must demonstrate strategic insights on client management and engagements.
• Must have hands on experience on financial budgeting, planning and managing strong networks with high standards of integrity.
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines.
• Strong business writing, report writing, presentation and research skills.
• A high aptitude for learning new approaches and innovation.
• Proven experience in formulating business strategy and growth.
• Experience as a keynote speaker in business conferences, pitching, writing and publishing thought leadership articles.
• Diligent and committed to excellence.
• Excellent coordination and planning skills.
• Resilience and Tenacity: must be able to always sustain motivation and commitment and can contain and absorb stressful moments and issues.
• Willingness to travel within and outside the region on a need basis.

We offer:

• An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting edge clients across Africa.
• Continuous learning and development.
• Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams.