Agile Coach (Africa Lead) at KPMG South Africa

Responsibilities

Your responsibilities will include:
Strategy

•   Advise and support regional teams in executing agile transformation initiatives, either at a project or enterprise level
•   Promote agile maturity assessments as a tool to ascertain agile readiness and craft strategies to improve adoption of agile across the enterprise
•   Develop comprehensive Go-to-market strategies with regional teams for agile transformation
•   Participate in the development and publication of thought leadership
•   Leverage local and global KPMG artefacts, SMEs, and other network assets to advance the firm’s agile agenda

Client Impact

•   Facilitate learning and development among employees through individual and team coaching
•   Communicate agile principles, scrum practices, and overall operating model across the organization
•   Coach and mentor cross-functional teams, leaders, and stakeholders on agile methodologies, principles, and practices to enable the adoption of agile practices and mindset
•   Create a culture of continuous improvement and experimentation by promoting agile values and principles, and encouraging team collaboration, transparency, and feedback.
•   Champion the use of metrics and other objective measures of agile adoption and value realization
•   Identify cultural barriers and mindset shifts that hinder agile adoption and work with the organization to overcome them.
•   Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and team-building activities to promote collaboration and alignment across the organization.
•   Undertake daily follow-ups with individual team members to ensure projects are on track and goals are being met
•   Help clients foster an environment of psychological safety, where team members feel comfortable taking risks and sharing ideas and feedback
•   Coach teams on Agile methodologies, principles, and practices to improve their delivery process, quality, and productivity.
•   Work with cross-functional teams to facilitate agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, and demos.
•   Identify and remove impediments that hinder team progress
•   Collaborate with product owners and stakeholders to prioritize and manage the product backlog
•   Encourage team collaboration, continuous improvement, and self-organization
•   Conduct training sessions and workshops to educate teams on Agile practices
•   Monitor and measure team performance and identify opportunities for improvement
•   Implement and oversee Agile metrics and reporting

Finance

•   Deliver on targets and goals (including sales goals)
•   Provide annual budget input for the area of responsibility for approval and integration into service line/ growth area budget
•   Manage the annual budget, including costs for designated area

Requirements:

Qualifications Experience & Skills
You’re a strong candidate if you have:

•    Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Communications, Operations, Business, or Technology or any other relevant field
•   Minimum of 10 years’ experience of combined business or technology experience within an Agile environment
•   Excellent knowledge of agile methodologies, values, and principles, and the ability to coach teams on their adoption and implementation
•   Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and senior management
•   Passionate about organizational culture transformation, and the ability to identify cultural barriers and mindset shifts that hinder agile adoption and work with the organization to overcome them
•   Experience facilitating workshops, training sessions, and team-building activities to promote collaboration and alignment
•   Familiarity with agile metrics and reporting, and the ability to develop and implement strategies to measure and monitor cultural transformation.
•   Knowledge of emerging practices and tools related to cultural transformation, such as design thinking and lean management
•   Experience in using scrum, kanban, and scaled agile framework (SAFe)
•   Agile certification, such as Certified Scrum Master (CSM) or SAFe Agilist, is a plus
•   Track record of implementing agile techniques in different work cultures and environments
•   Experience in running agile projects of varying size and complexity
•   Strong skills for leading, educating, and coaching
•   Excellent written and verbal communication skill