People & Change – Manager at KPMG

Job Description

KPMG is a professional service company, being one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and PwC. Seated in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, KPMG employs , people and has three lines of services: audit, tax, and advisory.

Position Summary

KPMG People & Change wish to recruit a 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 Manager will have the following responsibilities:

Manages engagements or projects to consistently achieve specific revenue and profit objectives and deliver designated engagement deliverables. Maintain a progress tracker of engagement milestones, tasks and deliverables. Plan and manage client engagement risk and project budget. Identify and escalate key client challenges to assess best possible intervention. 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. Manage client relationships through cross selling by knowing and sharing valuable client information. Provide timely and objective feedback to teams on task performance. 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. Any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Requirements

Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:

Master’s degree in Human Resources. Bachelor’s degree qualification in humanities or any other related field. Membership of a relevant professional bodies such as CIPD, IHRM. Minimum 8 years of experience in human resource consulting. Experience in managing HR engagements, e .g., organization structure review, workload analysis, change management etc.. In 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. Good communication skills (written and verbal). Ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines. Strong business writing, report writing, presentation and research skills. A high standard of integrity. A high aptitude for learning new approaches and innovation. Self-driven and results-oriented. Team player with good people management, work organization and coordination skills. Networking & stakeholder management skills. Training/ facilitation skills. 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. Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.