Associate Director-Tech Advisory-Tech Enablement at KPMG South Africa

Job description

Job Description

Location: Johannesburg

Purpose Of The Job

• KPMG’s Technology Enablement practice assists clients in understanding and unlocking value from their IT investments, with a specific focus on:
• Development and assistance in the execution of business-aligned IT strategies;
• Deployment of end-to-end business intelligence (BI) solutions including BI strategy development, strategy execution assistanceand deployment of business intelligence technology, i.e. Hyperion
• Optimisation of ERP systems, i.e. SAP and Oracle
• There is an opportunity for a senior consultant / Associate Director position to take a leading role within our SAP group. The role would suit a candidate who ultimately has ambitions of being admitted to the partnership.

Key Job Duties Or Responsibilities

• Responsibilities will cover a wide variety of advisory roles including:
• Working in a project environment to deliver SAP optimisation projects to clients, including interacting with senior and junior project team members
• Development and presentation of project deliverables to various levels of client management – especially C-level executives.
• Interacting with clients to understand technology issues, requirements and areas that can be optimised
• Identification of opportunities across the range of technology consulting service offerings
• Manage a sales pipeline of opportunities in the SAP space.
• Lead marketing activities to promote KPMG as a supplier of SAP services
• Developing alliances with SAP South Africa and SAP implementationpartners to deliver solutions to clients
• Leading the recruitment of junior team members
• Mentoring and performance management of junior team members.

Qualifications And Experience

• Completed BCom / BSc IT degree required
• Significant management experience in a IT/business consulting environment inthe SAP space (“Big 4”, Accenture or similar)
• Up-to-date knowledge of technology trends and developments
• Project management experience in SAP implementation work.
• Experience of managing and growing teams of IT professionals.
• Experience of delivering projects to both IT and business customers
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary consulting team to deliver end-to-end solutions to clients
• Experience in a range of industry sectors (Government and Financial Services experience advantageous)
• Experience of leading sales / conversions at specific clients.