Career Opportunities at KPMG South Africa

Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• As part of the Quantitative valuation and market risk team, you will work alongside a team of capital market specialists and will be able to quickly build upon your existing industry skills to become an expert in your field. You will be expected to lead projects and contribute to developing and nurturing our existing talent pool.
• Focus on preparation, delivery, reporting and evaluation of the results in response to the needs of stakeholders and external regulators will be key for the successful candidate.

Key responsibilities:

• Ability to work within a project team and take responsibility for the delivery of quality project deliverables.
• Manage tracks of work in accordance with projected timelines, budgets and quality standards
• Gather and translate business requirements for treasury, trading and risk system solution design
• Liaise with the different business and technical stakeholders to ensure successful risk and treasury solution configuration
• Ability to define target business processes and ideally design target operating models
• Actively support business development activities and thought leadership projects
• Integrate with the KPMG community, both locally and internationally, to identify and convert opportunities for business growth.
• Inspire, teach and coach the junior staff reporting to you.

Skills and attributes required for the role:

Skills:

• Candidate must have a good understanding of quantitative methods and their application in the Financial Risk Management space
• Experience of trading and risk system (Murex, Calypso, Front Arena, Riskwatch, Adaptiv, Mysis Summit, Quantum, ...) in a business or technological role
• Between 4 to 8 years treasury, trading or risk management experience within a financial services environment
• Personal attributes:
• Solid business writing skills
• Attention to details
• Ability to work under pressure
• Team player

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

• At least 5 years’ experience in a top South African Bank or leading professional services firm

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Description – External

•  KPMG’s Internal Audit trainee position is an exciting and stimulating experience that equips graduates with a combination of Internal Audit, Risk Management, and business skills. In the initial three-year training contract colleagues receive a combination of formal and practical on-the-job training to further enhance their skill set. This programme will assist graduates to fulfil their aspirations of becoming a certified Internal Auditor. In addition, our mentoring programme ensures that all staff will have continuous career counselling and avenues for feedback.

 
Qualifications – External

•  B Com Internal Audit Honours (60% overall average)

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Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• Seeking a dynamic individual with highly quantitative skills within the credit risk modelling space with advanced academics and strong communication skills. The role will be for credit risk quantitative analyst Assistant Manager / Senior Consultant.

Key responsibilities:

•  Supporting with credit risk model developments and validation for provisioning and capital modelling purposes.
•  Supporting with other credit strategic engagements to assist clients with enhancing their credit risk management capabilities (across the credit lifecycle); including predictive modelling.

Skills and attributes required for the role:

•  A Hons, Masters or Doctored degree in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics or similar.
•  Relevant experience within a quantitative credit risk-based role would be desired with at least 4 or more years of experience.
•  Coding skills (such as SAS, Python, R, etc.) skills would be required.
•  Other competencies that would be desired:
• Critical Analytical Thinking
• Business Acumen
• Excellent Communication Skills with ability to articulate quantitative concepts to both technical and non-technical individuals
• Able to engage with senior management and clients, as well as manage staff and engagements.
• Excellent presentation skills
• Must be resilient
• Must be a team player
• Ability to cope with and work under pressure

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

• A Hons, Masters or Doctorate degree in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics or similar.
• Relevant experience within a quantitative credit risk-based role would be desired with at least 4 or more years of experience.

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Description

• Well versed in contemporary statistical techniques and practices in credit risk modelling.
• Able to read, interpret and create software code, and relevant experience with modern computing languages, related to credit risk modelling (e.g. SAS, Python, or R).
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Able to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with conflicting priorities and deadlines.
• Good presentation and communication skills with ability to articulate quantitative concepts to both technical and nontechnical
• individual.

Qualifications

• A Hons or Masters degree in a quantitative discipline such as a Quantitative Finance, Mathematics, Statistics or equivalent
• At least 1 year experience within a quantitative credit risk based role. 

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Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• 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 responsibilities:

• Design, build, deployment and maintenance of the end user image (Global Desktop), based on 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 Intune environment, including responsibility for policy creation and administration, ensuring device compliance, and second level support for end-user interactions in this area.
• Provide 3rd level and escalation support for core applications included in the standard Desktop environment, including Microsoft 365, Acrobat, Edge Chromium, etc.
• Ensuring all workstations are compliant with the latest virus definitions and ability to resolve errors using Intune

Skills and attributes required for the role:

Skills:
Relevant Tertiary/IT qualification

• Proven hands-on experience with Microsoft SCCM, including OSD/Task Sequences, Client deployment, Security Updates, and issue remediation
• Hands-on experience in Office 365 and Intune will be advantageous
• 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
• Service oriented and willingness to help
• Ability to deal with conflict
• Extremely high level of confidentiality 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 logical 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
• Technology savvy

Minimum requirements to apply for the role (including qualifications and experience):
Relevant Tertiary/IT qualification

• Proven hands-on experience with Microsoft SCCM, including OSD/Task Sequences, Client deployment, Security Updates, and issue remediation
• Working knowledge of Microsoft services (Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS)

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Purpose of the Job:

• To provide a wide range of tax process and technology advisory services to a large portfolio of clients (internal and external). Work in multidisciplinary teams, including various Tax teams, Technology analysts and Data & Analytical teams across the firm.

Key job duties or responsibilities:

• Basic operational support for Data and Analytics solutions including database administration, database backup and restore.
• Perform the Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) process of financial data for all tax technology projects.
• Troubleshooting and debugging of ETL components used including SQL, Alteryx, Azure Data Factory and other solutions.
• Visualising data sets for analysis using data visualisation tools such as Power BI and QlikView.
• Assist with execution and improvement of local/global solutions and other product offerings.
• Design and develop data models for automation and analytical purposes.
• Drive efficiencies through automation and enablement of technology for tax reporting requirements using technologies such as UIPath, Alteryx, Power Platform etc.
• Analyse and understand the flow of transactional data across financial systems and how they impact the company’s direct and indirect tax declarations and obligations.
• Advise clients on how to sustain tax data quality standards in financial systems to enhance tax processes, operations and effectiveness of tax reporting.
• Prepare clear, sound, accurate working papers and reports containing work procedures, findings, conclusions and recommendations.
• Review the configuration of ERP systems for the management of direct and indirect tax to ensure conformity with the relevant standards.
• Contribute to pursuit/sales efforts to meet budgetary targets (form part of team to meet with clients to sell tax technology).

Critical Interpersonal or Interactive skills

• A self-starter and take initiative
• An analytical mind and inclination for problem-solving
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Understand new technological trends in the market (robotics, artificial intelligence)
• Good communication and skills to train people on the job
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines (manage projects IT component)
• Team player with good interpersonal skills
• High level of competence, ability to operate and think on feet and has attention to detail

Qualifications and experience

• CA (SA) or B Comm Degree or Information Technology degree
• At least 4 years relevant experience in a tax and/or accounting and/or data engineering/analytics
• Basic understanding of data management concepts.
• Experience in the development and/or implementation of accounting and/or tax technology tools
• Good command of key IT tools, particularly MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Good understanding of various accounting information systems, including but not limited to, SAP, Oracle, JD Edwards etc. (data extraction experience is essential)
• Understanding of various data and analytical tools, including but not limited to, QlikView, Power BI, SQL, Microsoft Azure, and/or other data query and dashboarding solutions)
• Understanding of various process automation tools such as UIPath, Alteryx, Power Platform
• Should have good data analytical and interpretational skills, numerical and research skills (data and analytical skills)