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Description
 
As one of South Africa’s largest consulting firms, KPMG’s mission is to be the leader in cloud implementation, optimization and migration. We are looking to improve and work on the following services for our clients:

Implementation of structured, reliable, actionable and available data

• AI guided insights
• Cloud migrations (on-site, hybrid and offsite)
• Cloud cost optimization
• We are looking for system-level thinkers to consult on both functional and technical areas to dive deep into software architecture and find repeatable cost-optimization opportunities, someone who has the technical insights to understand the full range of services in both Azure, AWS and Google’s cloud and understand the range of performance/cost implications of each.

Experience and Qualifications:

• Azure Certifications (AWS is a plus)
• Bachelor’s in computer science degree, with preference to a masters/PhD
• 10+ years of experience in the software development field
• The ability to translate business requirements and use cases into the cloud architecture
• Design end-to-end solutions and cross domain integration and APIs
• Experience in delivering Azure cloud architecture solutions (AWS experience is a plus)
• Build on the Azure cloud delivering SaaS, PaaS and IaaS
• Building the cost benefit analysis document
• Facilitate solution compliance to security, privacy, and regulatory needs

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Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• The Financial Services Audit division provides audit services to the largest insurance clients in South Africa, including components of international insurers.  Group senior managers are required to guide, manage and oversee the planning, staffing and supervision of group audits of a large insurance clients.  We aim to provide clients with audits of the highest quality that add value to their business.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage and oversee the planning and running of a large group audit of an insurer
• Compiling group audit instructions and determining group scoping and materiality levels
• Engagement with group components/fellow joint auditor with respect to cross reviews/ISA 600 responsibilities on audit matters.  This will include liaison with international component auditors
• Liaise with specialists regarding their involvement and scope on the engagement and determining the impact on the audit approach of any findings they might raise
• Provide technical, audit operational, and audit quality leadership with a focus on professional scepticism
• Presenting audit findings relating to the respective engagement to clients as well as assisting with audit committee document submission.
• Management of staff with respect to equitable planning of resources and ensuring that teams are adequately transformed
• Demonstrate a strong tone and culture supporting audit quality through a commitment to maintain objectivity, professional scepticism, ethics and integrity.
• Have the operational accountability and responsibility to drive audit quality in response to the needs of stakeholders and external regulators
• Reviewing the work performed by junior resources to ensure that the various audit risk factors have been accurately addressed and documented
• Take commercial and contractual responsibility for managing group engagement billings, collections and identification of overrun opportunities
   

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Deep understanding of group audit requirements in terms of ISA 600
• Deep understanding of the risks within an insurance environment
• Good organisation skills
• Able to see the bigger picture
• Strong leader
• Team player
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
• eAudIT and Clara knowledge
• Up to date with insurance accounting, insurance industry knowledge and processes, auditing standards and global best practice templates
• Enthusiasm, individual initiative and self-drive

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

• CA (SA) or equivalent qualification, and has at least three years of experience since completion of training contract.
• Experience in group audits with the emphasis on insurance clients.

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Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• The Financial Services Audit division provides audit services to the largest insurance clients in South Africa, including components of international insurers.  Group senior managers are required to guide, manage and oversee the planning, staffing and supervision of group audits of a large insurance clients.  We aim to provide clients with audits of the highest quality that add value to their business.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage and oversee the planning and running of a large group audit of an insurer
• Compiling group audit instructions and determining group scoping and materiality levels
• Engagement with group components/fellow joint auditor with respect to cross reviews/ISA 600 responsibilities on audit matters.  This will include liaison with international component auditors
• Liaise with specialists regarding their involvement and scope on the engagement and determining the impact on the audit approach of any findings they might raise
• Provide technical, audit operational, and audit quality leadership with a focus on professional scepticism
• Presenting audit findings relating to the respective engagement to clients as well as assisting with audit committee document submission.
• Management of staff with respect to equitable planning of resources and ensuring that teams are adequately transformed
• Demonstrate a strong tone and culture supporting audit quality through a commitment to maintain objectivity, professional scepticism, ethics and integrity.
• Have the operational accountability and responsibility to drive audit quality in response to the needs of stakeholders and external regulators
• Reviewing the work performed by junior resources to ensure that the various audit risk factors have been accurately addressed and documented
• Take commercial and contractual responsibility for managing group engagement billings, collections and identification of overrun opportunities
   

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Deep understanding of group audit requirements in terms of ISA 600
• Deep understanding of the risks within an insurance environment
• Good organisation skills
• Able to see the bigger picture
• Strong leader
• Team player
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
• eAudIT and Clara knowledge
• Up to date with insurance accounting, insurance industry knowledge and processes, auditing standards and global best practice templates
• Enthusiasm, individual initiative and self-drive

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

• CA (SA) or equivalent qualification, and has at least three years of experience since completion of training contract.
• Experience in group audits with the emphasis on insurance clients.

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Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• The People Data Analyst will use methods to address challenges and shape solutions, through the analysis of data that help streamline the PPC processes, use data and evidence to improve the business decision-making on people issues across the firm whilst contributing to strategic decision making. This will include gathering the statistics on remuneration, analyzing results from the Global People and Pulse surveys (and other surveys run by PPC), evaluating training results and identifying trends relating to the people in the firm. The role will further include the modelling of information required for the annual salary budgets and salary review cycles. The People Data Analyst will oversee the information in PPC which includes Analytics and BI reports.  

Key responsibilities:

The People Data Analyst will be responsible for leading the people analytics (strategic), data analytics (operational), reporting, technology and people data section, supporting the wider PPC and the business.

Analytics

• Develop and implement a PPC Analytics strategy
• Lead the development and implementation of data analyses, visualizations, and predictive analytics to provide people trends and insights to the rest of the organization
• Monitor and regularly upgrade the people analytics platform to address current and emerging business needs.
• Ensure that any data activities are in alignment with data privacy standards.
• Integrate with the PPC, Finance and Oracle teams in terms of analytics to cover a broad spectrum of areas
• Optimizing and implementing (new) data processes and systems
• Produce and deliver standard (monthly, quarterly, and annual) and customized HR reports
• Respond to PPC data requests on an ad hoc basis by gathering, analyzing, and reporting relevant data from various sources
• Maintain PPC data integrity by ensuring the accuracy and consistency of input data. Audit the PPC data and troubleshoot irregularities. Support data governance processes.
• Responsible for addressing a high volume of system-related activities in a timely fashion while maintaining a high level of quality and internal customer satisfaction
• Design and manage colleague surveys and exit interviews from a data and analytics perspective
• Support recruiting processes and the Opportunity-Led Promotion approach with data and statistics for trends and patterns
• Gather and produce government labour statistics, new employment regulations, and labour laws
• Analyze competitors’ practices and make recommendations to leadership
• Prepare reports of data results and present findings to leadership
• Recognize and suggest short-term and long-term goals, milestones, and benchmarks for key performance metrics
• Compile the PD Compliance Matrix document as and when required
   

Technology

• Maintain operational excellence on the team to ensure high quality methods to gather and manage large datasets from multiple sources, transforming or cleaning data as necessary.
• Contribute to system decision-making, scoping and arranging HR system projects in support of the overall PPC strategy
• Compile PPC data and metrics from the human resource information system and payroll outputs
   

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Strong business acumen including financial literacy, internal awareness and external awareness
• Excellent communication skills including visualization and presenting
• Excel in technical skills and knowledge of the PPC value chain
• Understand the firm’s strategy together with the PPC strategy
• Quantitative skills including the ability to build mathematical and statistical models of organisational processes e.g. attrition will be an added advantage

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

• Bachelor in HR or Economics
• 5+ years of relevant HR experience
• 5+ years of relevant data analytics experience
• Able to analyze existing and newly collected data
• Advanced skills in MS Excel
• Experience with data visualizations e.g. BI
• Working knowledge on HRIS systems (e.g. Oracle) will be an added advantage
• Experience with statistical modeling and descriptive statistics will be an added advantage

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Description of the role and purpose of the job:

Purpose

• Assist and support the General Legal team in the management and functioning of all contract management activities including but not limited to, all service and third-party agreements. Monitoring and enforcing compliance with laws and regulations in the KPMG South Africa network. Ensuring that KPMG’s Risk Management policies and procedures are adhered to.

Key responsibilities:

• The main area of responsibility will include the review and drafting of agreements and the monitoring of compliance with legislation and regulations.
• Other ad hoc legal duties as required by the unit management team.
• Assisting the Risk Management team in ensuring compliance with Risk Management procedures and policy.

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Good communication and interpersonal skills
• Attention to detail is critical to this role
• Team player, ability to deal effectively with individuals at all levels
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Self-motivated
• Proactive
• Good organizational skills
• Good understanding and practical application of drafting agreements, the monitoring of compliance with legislation
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Able to use initiative
• Flexibility to deal with ad-hoc tasks
• Detail orientated, solution driven, focussed on impact of legal agreements
• Adaptive to changing environment
   

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

• Qualified attorney
• 2 to 3 years’ experience in a legal/compliance environment
• Proficient in Excel and Word

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Description
 

• The Information Technology Services Business Unit of KPMG SA is responsible for providing specialist services that support the business objectives and strategy of the firm. It bridges the gap between technology and business and facilitates innovative and effective use of technology and improved communication.  It oversees software and hardware, asset procurement and management, end user support, application development, reporting, systems analysis and networking.

Purpose of position:

The EUC Specialist is responsible for overseeing and executing all technical requirements for development of the End User Computing requirements for KPMG South Africa.

Key accountabilities:

• Design, build, deployment and maintenance of the end user image (Global Desktop), on the basis of what is provided by ITS Global, and in terms of global standards, business requirements and best practice, for KPMG SA and Africa Shared Services customers.
• Maintenance of the Group Policy for EUC environments, including AGPM and the Policy management of the desktop environment for KPMG SA. Support for GPO for Africa Shared Services countries is only for escalations.
• Responsible for administration, management and deployment of SCCM end-user components, such as software deployment, security updates (patching), advertisements and collections, for KPMG SA and Africa Shared Services customers.
• Reporting for all SCCM end-user related elements, including Patch compliance for KPMG SA and remediation in this area.
• Support and administer the MobileIron environment, including responsibility for policy creation and administration, ensuring device compliance, and second level support for end-user interactions in this area.
• Provide 2nd level and escalation support for core applications included in the standard Desktop environment, including Microsoft Office, Acrobat, Chrome, Cibecs, etc.

Person specification:
Relevant Skills

• Relevant Tertiary/IT qualification
• Proven hands-on experience with Microsoft SCCM, including OSD/Task Sequences, Client deployment, Security Updates, and issue remediation
• Comfortable to lead in their area of expertise, but also able to follow as required by the team
• Good organisational skills to ensure effective planning and prioritisation takes place regularly
• Proven experience supporting core business applications for a medium to large firm at a 2nd\3rd level
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft services (Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS)
• Strong understanding of PowerShell/Windows Scripting
• Create and maintain Technical Documents, Support and Operations manuals and Knowledge Base articles
• Experience\Understanding of ITIL Concepts, Change Management Processes, Incident and Problem management
• Ability to deal effectively with individuals at all levels
• Must be very detail orientated understanding that tasks are only done once all steps have been effectively completed

Personal Attributes

• Excellent client focus
• Ability to deal with conflict
• Extremely high level of confidentially and integrity
• Able to maintain a friendly, professional manner when liaising with clients, even in challenging situations
• Ability to multi-task
• The ability to build collaborative relationship 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 work well under pressure and to perform to deadlines
• Team player who is self-aware
• Strong organisation skills; a self-starter with initiative, ability to foster innovation and a common sense approach to problem solving
• Sound decision making ability with the ability to consult where needed
• Focus on continuous improvement within the ITS function while advancing an ethical environment
• High level of attention to detail and a desire to drive quality
• The ability to work unsupervised

Qualifications
Personal Attributes

• Excellent client focus
• Ability to deal with conflict
• Extremely high level of confidentially and integrity
• Able to maintain a friendly, professional manner when liaising with clients, even in challenging situations
• Ability to multi-task
• The ability to build collaborative relationship 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 work well under pressure and to perform to deadlines
• Team player who is self-aware
• Strong organisation skills; a self-starter with initiative, ability to foster innovation and a common sense approach to problem solving
• Sound decision making ability with the ability to consult where needed
• Focus on continuous improvement within the ITS function while advancing an ethical environment
• High level of attention to detail and a desire to drive quality
• The ability to work unsupervised