Job Opportunities at KPMG South Africa

Description Of The Role And Purpose Of The Job

Our national Internal Audit, Risk and Compliance Services practice provides strategic sourcing of Internal Audit; Enterprise Risk Management; Governance, Regulatory Compliance, Contract Compliance and Sustainability services. This involves a strong focus on all aspects of our clients’ core business processes, regulatory, risk and IT landscape includes assessing risk, evaluating control effectiveness, identifying weaknesses, and developing solutions.

KPMG considers itself a market leading Internal Audit provider locally and globally. We currently have a vacancy for one experienced Senior Internal Auditor within our Johannesburg office who will participate in and support the delivery of internal audit, risk management and governance services to our esteemed client portfolio.

Key Responsibilities

The Senior Internal Auditor will be responsible for

• Assisting with internal audit planning, the risk assessment, scope, budget, internal audit programme and procedures development.
• Executing internal audit assignments in line with the KPMG methodology, KPMG risk management standards, mandated budget and client deadlines.
• Identifying weak/problem areas and its root cause, document findings, developing effective corrective action plans and following up on implementation of the corrective action.
• Assisting with the preparation of audit reports, presentation/communicating findings and recommendations to management including discussion/negotiation of the findings.
• Contribute towards continuous improvement, enhancing current levels of service delivery, quality and client satisfaction.
• Assisting with departmental administration and initiatives (as required).

Skills And Attributes Required For The Role

• Sound understanding of internal audit, risk management and regulatory imperatives
• Previous Internal Auditor experience including relevant experience in:
• Business process, risk, control and process improvement documentation (mapping) and analysis (including sound risk, control and process improvement documentation and analysis ability)
• Audit programme development and workpapers are completed to the desired standard in line with relevant client scope areas, related risks, control concerns and client expectations are met satisfactorily.
• Sound and structured report writing ability (considering all key facts and background).
• Good time management and ability to drive your own quality work deliverables within the agreed project budgets and deadlines.
• Professional integrity and a high performing team player who can work autonomously, remains accountable and contributes to a positive and cohesive team environment.
• Competence in data analytics (using IDEA or related tools, ability to execute routine data analytics procedures and analysing results appropriately).
• Ability to work under pressure, good analytical, interpersonal, time management, research, and communications skills.

Minimum requirements to apply for the role (including qualifications and experience):

• B Com Hons Internal Auditing (or relevant qualification)
• CIA designation progress (advantageous)
• Minimum of three years relevant working experience

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Description Of The Role And Purpose Of The Job

KPMG South Africa is a multinational firm with an ambition to be the most trusted and trustworthy professional services firm in the world.

We are rapidly growing our Digital Consulting team, who are focussed on helping clients with their Digital Transformation ambitions. KPMG’s deep industry insights, relationships, alliances and accelerators combine to help technology and business executives convert business strategy into compelling technology outcomes.

The work we do is rewarding and complex and our team is diverse and engaging. We are looking for an experienced and ambitious Cloud consulting professional who can partner with our clients to envision and design their Cloud journey, charting the case for change and the roadmap to get there. As an experienced consultant in Cloud services, you will be helping clients in their Cloud transformation journeys and will join our highly talented and passionate Cloud technology team. You will be at the forefront of some of the most exciting, complex and leading-edge transformation work. You will be required to understand the clients’ growth ambitions, their pain points and provide them with compelling solutions from our wide portfolio of Cloud offerings across markets.

If you're looking for a firm with a strong team connection where you can be your whole self, make an impact, advance your skills, deepen your experiences, and strive to find new areas of inspiration, then consider a career in our Digital Consulting practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of Cloud transformation engagements. This includes creating the vision and case for change, and designing the roadmap to get there
• Designing Cloud target operating models
• Support clients in understanding, assessing and designing Cloud transformation capabilities
• Actively drive the identification of leads and proposal development to address client requirements
• Support Partners to grow the Cloud transformation business, through the drafting of thought leadership materials, participation in marketing initiatives and industry events
• Actively managing the development and provision of skills transfer to junior employees
• Display diligence during the execution of any work of KPMG’s internal risk management processes
• Lead discussions around the “future of sector” across our client base and actively participate in generating creative ideas and thoughts

Skills And Attributes Required For The Role

• Excellent teamwork skills and the ability to direct efforts of cross-functional teams for a collaborative proposition
• Ability to identify and close sales opportunities. This will include proactive business development, proposal writing and the development of client and solution targeting plans
• Ability to manage high performing teams and provide coaching to enable junior staff members to grow in their role
• Leading related projects and delivery
• High level of drive and resilience
• High level of attention to detail and a desire to drive quality
• Strong organisation skills, a self-starter with initiative, ability to foster innovation and a common-sense approach to problem solving
• Ability to multi-task and reprioritise tasks as and when required
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Excellent business writing skills, analytical, numerical skills, communication and interpretation skills
• The ability to build collaborative relationships with good interpersonal skills and the ability to relate well to colleagues with differing levels of expertise and skills while championing inclusion and diversity
• The ability to adapt to a changing work environment and accommodate changing client demands

Minimum Requirements To Apply For The Role

• 10+ years of experience in infrastructure, Cloud and related technology platforms
• Enabling our clients’ end to end journey from On-Premise to Cloud, with a focus on the areas of Cloud Strategy and Cloud Transformation. As part of this, the candidate should have an understanding of crafting a journey/roadmap to Cloud which incorporates elements of governance, risk, security, technology and financial management
• An understanding of concepts related to Cloud Development, Cloud Integration & APIs, Cloud migration planning, Cloud Infrastructure & Engineering
• Experience with architecting, designing, implementing, or operating IT systems on leading commercial Cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Google
• Ability to provide expert strategic advice for assessing suitability of on-premise workloads to be migrated to the Cloud as well as assessing the appropriate Cloud platform to migrate to
• Good understanding of Enterprise Networks, Security and Identity Access Management
• Must have in-depth understanding of compute, storage, network components including backup, monitoring and DR environment requirements
• Sound understanding of Virtualization and Hypervisors
• Must have experience for planning migrations to public or hybrid Clouds including infrastructure sizing and costing
• Cloud Security experience will be an added advantage
• Experience and understanding of large-scale applications portfolio in enterprise-wide environment (including migration of on-premise workloads to the Cloud) required
• Experience in handling Complex IT architectures including, enterprise and/or solution designs

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Description Of The Role and Purpose Of The Job

We have an exciting opportunity to join our Financial Risk Management business unit, since we are looking to fill four positions for Consultants in our Credit Risk & Capital Management team. We are a specialist function within KPMG’s Advisory Practice which has as its main purpose to assist clients with the development and review of often complex statistical models used to quantify financial risks. The Credit Risk & Capital management team is made up of credit risk modellers and analysts from a broad and diverse range of quantitative backgrounds, including mathematics, statistics, engineering and actuarial.

As a Credit Risk Senior Consultant / Assistant Manager, you will have a technical specialist role in the development and in the auditing of credit risk models (IFRS9, scorecards, etc.). The role offers exposure to a wide range of modelling techniques used by banks ranging from smaller local credit providers to globally systemically important banks. It also provides access to the latest technologies and developments and you will be able to hone your coding skills in packages like Python, R and SAS.

Key Responsibilities

• Supporting with the development and review of credit risk model both for provisioning and regulatory capital requirement purposes
• Assisting with the coding and automation of financial risk management models

Skills And Attributes Required For The Role

• Understanding of contemporary statistical techniques and practices in credit risk modelling.
• Able to read, interpret and create software code, and ideally some experience with modern computing languages related to credit risk modelling (e.g. SAS, Python, or R).
• Relevant experience within a quantitative credit risk-based role would be an asset
• Ability to cope with and work under pressure
• Resilient and a team player
• Good presentation and communication skills with ability to articulate quantitative concepts to both technical and non-technical individuals

Minimum requirements to apply for the role (including qualifications and experience):

• A Hons or Masters degree in a quantitative discipline such as Quantitative Finance, Mathematics, Statistics or equivalent.