IN|KRC|Transformation Delivery UK|Senior Manager

•Proposed designation – Senior Manager •Role type Supervisory •Reporting to – Director •Geo to be supported –  UK •Work timings – 9:00 am to 5:30pm

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced Senior Project Manager to join our Transformation Delivery team. The purpose of the TD team is to support seamless delivery in our Audit practice by promoting excellence in project management, to enable sustainable Audit Quality and Growth.

As a Senior Project Manager, your role will be to provide leadership, guidance, stakeholder management and innovation to the day-to-day running of audit engagements being delivered by KPMG. You will be responsible for establishing, running and evolving the team’s core project management capabilities, ensuring focus around excellence in delivery and underpinning Audit Quality. 

You and your team will provide the tools and capabilities to support the delivery of the engagement, as well as delivering project support and analyzing data to assist management decision making and communication. You will also contribute to the ongoing improvement of project management products, services and process by leading the delivery of internal continuous improvement workstreams.

You will report to the Change & Transformation lead and have responsibility for supervising and performance managing assigned Project Management staff. This will include imparting knowledge, skills and experience to support career development/coaching of team members and support provision of best practice. 

This is a key role in helping the business to achieve our vision of being the most trusted audit firm, by our regulators, the businesses we audit, investors, the public and our people:

•Lead individual responsible for managing the day-to-day relationship with respective Audit Performance Group leadership. •Leading a substantial team of assigned Audit Project Managers and KRC TD staff. •Leading high profile projects, with internal and external stakeholders such as the FRC •Ensuring effective audit governance through the regular reporting of audit progress, achievement of milestones, changes to agreed delivery plan and delivery risks/issues. •Scoping and supporting audit engagement teams through the provision and coordination of core eight project management methodology. •Engagement Planning (e.g. ensuring the engagement has appropriate end-to-end tier 1/2/3 plans to ensure activity can be executed and monitored week-by-week). •PBM Tracking (e.g. ensuring PBM delivery is monitored against the plan, assisting the team to follow up in case of non-delivery; generally executed by India team).\ •Review Note Tracking (e.g. ensuring Review Notes are planned, coordinated and monitored against the plan; generally executed by India team). •KcW Tracking (e.g. ensuring progress through the file is coordinated and monitored against the plan; MI may assist in delivering the data). •Engagement Finances (e.g. coordinating the Forward Planning (budget) production and submission, tracking actuals v budget, monthly cost to complete, tracking scope variation (SVT), monitoring codes, and advising engagement leadership as necessary). •Team Organization (e.g. ensuring the team communicates and is organized effectively, with a RAID, RACI and other PM tools as appropriate to ensure efficient execution of work). •YE Debrief and Continuous Improvement (e.g. planning and conducting YE debriefs, capturing lessons identified, and ensuring they are incorporated in next year’s plan; conducting further CI activity as needed to remove waste (TIMWOODS) and save audit hours. •Managing to Plan (e.g. review / triangulate all tracking activity against the baseline tiered plans, managing risks and issues, taking action accordingly and advising audit leadership when there are deviations from the audit plan, delays in the timeline or equally opportunities to bring work forward.

Applying your knowledge and understanding of audit engagement teams, leadership and wider contacts in the execution of day-to-day support to ensure KPMG planning requirements and deadlines (e’g. DPP planning milestones) are achieved, and Audit Quality standards and Service Level Agreements are met. Key activities include:

•Stakeholder relationship management (e.g., ensuring effective communication is maintained throughout the project). •Developing and maintaining effective working relationships with a broad range of colleagues and stakeholders, including members of the programme management team, Senior Managers, Directors, Partners, project teams, 3rd party service providers, and importantly, contacts in the Audited entity. •Co-ordinating and supervising assigned resources. This will include reviewing their work outputs to ensure appropriate level of quality and providing coaching and mentoring support. •Deliver PM training to auditors, both generally (e.g. for Forward Planning), and including specific coaching / mentoring to nominated auditors in PM roles on other engagements in the department / sector / pod. •Holding Audit Managers/Senior Managers to account for the delivery of their audits. •Working with Audit Managers to optimize the use of resources, including KPMG Global Services (KGS) offshore staff, and improve efficiency in audit delivery. •Developing strong, trusting and credible working relationships with senior staff on engagements, Performance Group Leadership and other key business stakeholders where applicable. •Identifying opportunities to expand the provision of project management support to the Audit Practice through effective stakeholder engagement. •Delivering project management support to ongoing continuous improvement workstreams

Educational Qualifications

•Post graduate degree from a reputed institute •PMP, CAPM, Prince 2 Certification will be an added advantage

Work Experience

•12+ years of work experience in project management in a leading professional services firm (e.g. international consulting firm, Big 4, IT Enabled Services Industry) or existing PMO captive