Job Opportunities at KPMG South Africa

Purpose Of The Job
The purpose of this role is:

• KPMG Corporate Tax Services provides a variety of corporate tax consulting and advisory services to clients. We are a dedicated team specialising in value enhancing services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, private equity, dispute resolution and tax controversy, carbon tax and tax advisory services. We offer consulting and advisory services across various industries.

Key Job Duties Or Responsibilities

• Answer tax related questions and understand highly complex tax related problems
• Conduct confidential relations with clients
• Effectively manage relationships with the relevant local authorities
• Interpret the complete spectrum of relevant local income tax and tax administration laws
• Display an awareness of other local tax laws that may have a bearing on the tax problem at hand
• Make complex recommendations regarding tax solutions
• Manage a team of junior team members and professional staff
• Display good project management skills
• Display good “first review” skills
• Manage the administration of tax matters
• Manage the maintenance of essential tax records, reports and files
• Prepare clear, sound, accurate reports containing findings, conclusions and recommendations
• Sell sufficient work to meet budgetary targets
• Adapt to a changing work environment and accommodate changing client demands
• Be able to support the development of opportunities and management of relationships with colleagues within other business units outside of tax
• Be able to manage a project from start to finish (including risk and billings), manage junior team members and be able to work directly with the partner or AD in delivering a quality product on time
• Be able to identify risks and opportunities within the managers existing client base and to assist the team in winning new work from these clients.
• Keeping up to date with changes to legislation and relating to Income Tax and Tax Administration as well as new developments in regulations and case law
• Facilitate teamwork by sharing knowledge with others on a regular basis
• Contribute effectively to the discussions around work and actively participate in generating creative ideas and thoughts

Critical Interpersonal Or Interactive Skills

• Ability to operate and think on feet
• Ability to multi-task and reprioritise tasks as and when required
• Attention to detail
• Ability to effectively delegate work to team members
• High level of drive and resilience
• Strong selling skills
• Good communication and interpretation skills
• Good command of the English language
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Team player with good people skills
• High level of competence
• Ability to deal effectively with people at all levels
• Good writing skills
• Be able to interact directly with clients in a professional manner
• Good problem-solving ability
• Good research skills
• Effective time management skills
• Good numerical skills
• Good presentation skills
• Commitment to take ownership of own career
• Commitment to invest in own a career
• Good “first review” skills

Qualifications And Experience

• CA (SA) or LLB; HDip (Tax); MCom (Tax); B-Comm Honours
• At least 4 years relevant experience in a corporate tax environment
• Knowledge of Word, Excel and Powerpoint
• Must have a wide range of corporate tax skills and experience including opinion writing, concept papers, compliance, due diligence reviews and dispute resolution

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Description Of The Role And Purpose Of The Job

• The role will help our clients integrate functional, governance, reporting, performance insights and data, people, process and technology dimensions to co create the HR function of the future. We help our clients and their HR functions as they rebalance their priorities to make the most of a “new normal” and rethink their operating model in the face of a digital world. The focus of this role lies within our Digital HR Transformation (HRT) offering. We are looking for a Digital HR Transformation Manager to help us grow and develop our team.

Key Responsibilities
Manage a portfolio of clients including understanding their expectations as they navigate and solve complex business challenges in the following domains of:

• HR functional transformation
• Macro and Micro organisational design
• HR Service delivery model
• Knowledge and experience in supporting the implementation of digital and HR ERP technologies
• Digitising HR data and information
• Reengineering and automating HR business processes
• Designing consumer grade employment experience
• Grow and develop existing client portfolio with a focus on identifying opportunities for the people & change service offering, other business units and wider advisory services
• Identify potential clients and help pursue opportunities to develop and grow the People and Change business
• Deliver projects/scope of work as part of multidisciplinary client engagement teams in compliance with firm policies, procedures, practices and standards.
• Serve as a project manager on medium-large projects with moderate complexity) / workstream lead / operational team member to assist clients to build agile people and change functions and embrace change.
• Ensure effective project management and delivery within an agreed budget to achieve the required revenue and profit targets. Engage in business development initiatives, including the proactive identification of opportunities, development and presentation of winning proposals
• Assist in building and maintaining long-term business relationships and networks to contribute to the attainment of business objectives.
• Provide relevant technical knowledge, coaching, feedback and training to members of the team to support their personal development and career growth. Participate in internal firm initiatives as of when required.

Skills And Attributes Required For The Role

• Sales and opportunity development mindset
• Inquisitive, enthusiastic and a drive to learn and succeed
• Ambition to learn, development and drive change
• Innovative and digitally minded
• Analytical minded
• Business acumen and commercial awareness
• People/teams and project management
• Client oriented with a hands-on approach
• Sense of urgency, task ownership and accountability
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Presentation and facilitation skills

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

• Relevant Master’s degree
• Minimum 5 - 6 years consulting experience or 3 years management experience delivering HR consulting services with specific experience in leading medium to large digital HR transformation services.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience in leading projects focused on supporting clients on the future of HR requirements and using cloud HR enablement solutions such as Workday, SuccessFactors, Oracle HCM, ServiceNow, Salesforce and Microsoft to transform the HR function.
• Registration or membership with recognised professional bodies

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Description Of The Role And Purpose Of The Job

• Newly qualified CA (SA) looking to pursue a career as an IT Auditor. This role is for a Supervisor assisting IT Audit Managers to scope, plan and manage a team to execute the reengineering of financial statement and internal audits to optimally leverage client IT systems and data as well as technologies available to the firm to achieve efficiency, risk mitigation, optimal assurance and differentiation. This role will also require fieldwork to be performed in the execution of small to medium or complex internal and external audit engagements.
• The secondary purpose is to deliver on engagements in an IT Advisory capacity to assist clients in managing risks associated with information management, information technology governance, business systems risk management, project risk management and information security.
• Experience in performing IT audits and auditing the IT systems of external and internal audit clients, specifically in the Investment and Fund Management, Manufacturing, Retail, Consumer Markets and Insurance space is required for this specific position. Experience in IT Attestation audits (ISAE3402, SOC 1) and PCAOB audits is advantageous.

Key Responsibilities

• Analysing audit strategy to provide input on defining the ideal target audit approaches that leverage technology and data analysis and documenting work and results in KPMG’s proprietary audit tools
• Engaging with audit partners and managers to work together with them in teams
• Applying appropriate methodologies and skills to test general IT and application controls or perform data analytics in order to execute on an external or internal audit
• Providing guidance to junior colleagues on the appropriate approach in testing general IT and application controls as well as performing data analytics
• Project / engagement management including financial, operational and people management
• Review and quality assurance of deliverables
• Develop internal and external client relationships
• Client liaison and problem solving
• Ability to identify and convert potential business development / sales opportunities
• Reporting of findings to key stakeholders (client and audit), as well as investigating mitigating controls and procedures for control deficiencies

Skills And Attributes Required For The Role

• Self-leadership
• Strong desire to learn through diverse experiences
• Time management, discipline, accountability, self-motivation and eagerness are vital skills
• Ability to build sound internal and external relationships
• Strong administration skills
• Being able to coach and guide junior staff to perform their responsibilities and well as provide fair feedback on their performance
• Enquiring mind and maintaining professional scepticism
• Analytical, stable and logical thinker
• Excellent client relationship development skills
• Conflict resolution skills
• Ability to work under pressure

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

• Completed BCom Accounting Honours
• CA(SA) preferred, or partly qualified (Part I etc)
• Minimum 3 years working experience

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Description Of The Role And Purpose Of The Job

• The Junior Oracle Applications Developer will be responsible for designing, developing, customizing and integrating Oracle e-Business Suite applications with other systems, and providing ongoing support and future enhancements of those solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for ensuring KPMG SA’s Oracle EBS portfolio of applications are designed to meet evolving business requirements and meet coding and application standards for reliability, scalability, availability, and usability.
• This position will also work with team members as needed to scope, design, develop, test, support and enhance Oracle e-Business Suite, Oracle SOA and Oracle ADF solutions.
• Design Develop utilities to ensure we have modular approach in programming for uniformity & to improve productivity.
• Work with Oracle functional business and system analysts to gather business requirements, translate them into specifications documents.
• Responsible for coding and unit testing application software across production support, enhancements and projects.
• Work under the supervision or mentorship of the Oracle Application Developer to translate business requirements into logical, component-based technical designs.
• Meet service level agreements for production support response and resolution.
• Design and develop technical solutions to a pre-defined requirement and develop components including extensions, views, customizations, modifications, reports, and workflows under the mentorship and guidance of the Oracle Application Developer or as a part of a team.
• Follow documentation, software development methodology, version control and testing, and migration standards.
• Ability and willingness to learn regarding the applications and their ecosystem.
• Review of code and ensure adheres to industry best practices and KPMG Coding standards.
• Participate in analysis discussions to ensure the business requirements are met.
• Provide all necessary documentation for developed solutions, data flows, coding and designs.
• Provide all implementation guides for deployment to Production environments.

Skills And Attributes Required For The Role

• Application Development Framework (ADF) and Service Oriented
• Architecture (SOA) concepts knowledge is required but not mandatory.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent client focus
• The ability to work well under pressure and to perform to deadlines
• Team player who is self-aware
• 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

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

• Total of 1-3 Years' of solid experience in Oracle E-Business Suite (Oracle EBS).
• Technical knowledge of Oracle applications, Oracle SQL and PL-SQL development is required.
• Some experience with RICE (Reports, Interfaces, Conversions, Extensions), Forms, BI Publisher Reports/XML Publisher, Workflow, OAF, sqldeveloper and Linux Shell Scripting.
• Exposure to one or more of the following Oracle EBS modules: Financials, Projects, Procurement, Asset Management, HR and Payroll.

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Key Roles And Responsibilities

• Assist in reviewing, and providing advice on, reporting accountant’s reports required to achieve compliance with the financial information continuing obligation requirements of the JSE i.e. non-IFRS financial information and pro forma financial information;
• Assist in reviewing, and providing advice on, reports of historical financial information, pro forma financial information and forecast financial information, for purposes of inclusion in circulars, prospectuses and pre-listing statements as well as the related reporting accountant’s reports;
• Assist in preparing and negotiating comfort letter packages in terms of the International Capital Markets Association and 144A and Regulation A of the SEC;
• Assist with preparing and presenting auditor training;
• Assist with structuring transactions in terms of the JSE Listings Requirements and the Companies Act;
• Assisting with JSE and Companies Act queries.

Qualifications And Experience

• Ability to register with IRBA;
• Two years of experience as a manager;
• An interest in rules and regulations. Regulatory reporting experience is a plus; and
• Experience with a listed entity is a plus.

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Description Of The Role And Purpose Of The Job

• We have an exciting opportunity to join our Financial Risk Management business unit, since we are looking to fill four positions for Senior Consultants in our Credit Risk & Capital Management team. We are a specialist function within KPMG’s Advisory Practice which has as its main purpose to assist clients with the development and review of often complex statistical models used to quantify financial risks. The Credit Risk & Capital management team is made up of credit risk modellers and analysts from a broad and diverse range of quantitative backgrounds, including mathematics, statistics, engineering and actuarial.
• As a Senior Credit Risk Consultant, you will not only have a technical specialist role in the development and in the auditing of credit risk models (IFRS9, scorecards, etc.), but also be involved in the coaching and training of junior team members. The role offers exposure to a wide range of modelling techniques used by banks ranging from smaller local credit providers to globally systemically important banks. It also provides access to the latest technologies and developments, and you will be able to hone your coding skills in packages like Python, R and SAS.

Key Responsibilities

• Development and review of credit risk model both for provisioning and regulatory capital requirement purposes
• Assisting with the coding and automation of financial risk management models
• Support with the training of junior team membersParticipate in building a coaching culture aimed at getting the best out of others in an environment where everyone in the team feels empowered to speak up or challenge where appropria

Skills And Attributes Required For The Role

• Understanding of contemporary statistical techniques and practices in credit risk modelling
• Able to read, interpret and create software code, and ideally some 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
• Self-driven and resilient
• Team player
• Good presentation and communication skills with ability to articulate quantitative concepts to both technical and non-technical individuals

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

• A Hons or Masters degree in a quantitative discipline such as Quantitative Finance, Mathematics, Statistics or equivalent.
• Minimum 2 years of relevant experience within a quantitative credit risk-based role
• Some experience of managing, coaching or mentoring junior staff would be an asset

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Description Of The Role And Purpose Of The Job

• To manage forensic engagements with efficiency and the required technical competence

Key Responsibilities

• Ability to project manage forensic assignments
• Ability to manage Forensic teams
• Drafting factual findings reports
• Project planning and administration

Skills And Attributes Required For The Role

• Ability to prioritise effectively and accept responsibility
• Ability to deal effectively with individuals at all levels
• Ability to work under pressure
• Good communicator
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong interpersonal skills are essential
• Excellent writing skills

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

• Relevant tertiary qualification – CA (SA)
• 5 years’ experience as a Forensic Manager
• Proven track record on forensic investigation and dispute advisory engagements
• Experience in testifying in disciplinary and court proceedings
• Relevant professional membership CFE or (FP)SA certification will be an advantage
• Proficient in MS Office
• Drivers licence and own transport
• Willingness and ability to travel as needed