Associate Director at KPMG South Africa

Description of the role and purpose of the job:

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