HR Consultant at KPMG South Africa

Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• The Functional HR Consultant assists the Functional HR Manager/s and Strategic HR Manager with relevant transactional/administrative work that resides within the Business units e.g. collating data for HR reports, tracking performance development processes etc.
• They provide support to the office to assist with day-to-day HR requirements and HR programs delivery in line with the Business strategy.
• They assist line managers in forecasting and planning their talent pipeline requirements in line with the Function or Business strategy and provide BU specific HR solutions.
• They also serve as the Learning Business partner, communicating training requirements to L&D and facilitating all information requirements between the BU and L&D.
• They assist the Business with relevant HR transactional work that resides within the Business units.
• They also submit HR related queries on behalf of Business e.g. recruitment, transformation, leave, timesheets etc. The HR Consultant is a custodian of the HR transactional administration in the function.

Key responsibilities:

• Translate strategy into Business needs
• Enable BU Leadership to achieve strategic goals by integrating HR Strategy into BU strategy
• Promote and support the Firm’s transformation strategy
• Employee relations
• Understand internal and external stakeholders and their needs
• Deliver role requirements with a client centric approach
• Ensure effective BU and / or Function financial management and budgeting processes
• Create and enable an environment where colleagues thrive in a constantly changing business environment
• Demonstrate high quality and timeous verbal and written communication

Talent acquisition:

• Arrange and execute a successful and sustained on-boarding programme for all new recruits from start to finish

Talent Management:

• Conduct exit interviews with junior colleagues and provide feedback to BU on trends and tendencies to enable positive change
• Collate exit interview feedback for reporting purposes

Performance Development:

• Responsible for performance development system operations including online trouble shooting and providing system guidance to end-users
• Monitoring users in the BU and / or Function including the de-activation of colleagues who have exited and closing out of forms for colleagues who have left
• Monitoring compliance, e.g. goal setting and mid / year-end reviews by pulling regular reports
• Providing feedback to the BU and / or Function on compliance
• Assist with BU calibration logistics
• Prioritise colleague well being
• Promote and facilitate colleague engagement

Learning and Development:

• Ensure that all permanent staff have been planned on the appropriate training
• Monitoring of mandatory training completions

Mobility:

• Follow up with GO Team if secondees need to be terminated on Oracle or if secondment will be extended or offered permanent

Recognition, reward and payroll responsibilities:

• Promote the use of Blue Bucks
• Timely submission of monthly payroll input i.e. Medical certificates, liaise with Exp Hire Recruiter to ensure all relevant docs are saved on iManage
• Address payroll queries and follow-up with Payroll to ensure effective resolution

Quality, Risk Management & Compliance:

• Serve as a custodian for KPMG PPC (HR and L&D) Policies and Procedures
• Drive a relentless focus on quality and excellent service
• Drive compliance to all KPMG deadlines

SAICA responsibilities:

• Reporting and follow ups
• Coordination of sign offs
• Monitoring of SAICA compliance

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Computer literacy.
• Communication and negotiation skills.
• Analytical/statistical skills.
• Budget skills.
• Learning agility.
• Action orientation.
• Problem solving and decision-making.
• Project management.
• Team leadership.
• Client relationships.

Personal attributes:

• 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
• High level of attention to detail and a desire to drive quality

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

• Minimum Diploma/ degree related field or studying towards a relevant HR qualification
• A bachelor’s degree would be advantageous
• Minimum 3 years’ experience working within the HR Department.