Description of the role and purpose of the job:
- Providing and prioritising operational and administrative support to the Business Unit leadership enabling them to focus on core business objectives
Key responsibilities:
Understand and enable Firm Strategy
- Understand strategy at Firm, Function and Service line level
- Understand how role aligns with strategy and how execution of role enables strategy
- Understand the broader firm structure and service offering
Operational and Business Support
- Manage Business Unit leadership diaries and correspondence
- Manage Leadership travel arrangements in accordance with KPMG Policy
- Scheduling of meetings/ Booking / co-ordinating of functions / events / conferences
- Completing and submitting partner/AD timesheets / expenses (Oracle)
- Providing general support to Business Leadership
- Assist with BU Administration
- Understand and contribute towards the financial management goals of the business
- Assist with marketing related tasks
- Support team with document formatting related tasks using Microsoft Office and other business tools
Quality and Risk Management & Compliance
- Comply with KPMG Risk Management and other Policies and Procedures
- Drive a relentless focus on quality and excellent service
Internal and External Stakeholder Management
- Understand internal and external stakeholders
- Deliver role requirements with a client centric approach
Communication
- Demonstrate high quality and timeous verbal and written communication
Internal and public trust
- Building internal and external trust
Personal Development
- Keep abreast with recent developments and best practice in respective field
Skills and attributes required for the role:
Skills:
- Matric
- Secretarial diploma or similar qualification would be an advantage
- Strong capability in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook) and Oracle
- Communication and writing skills
- Analytical skills
- Fast and accurate typing
Personal attributes:
- Extremely high level of confidentially and integrity
- Excellent client focus
- Able to use own initiative
- Good time management ability
- Ability to function well in high pressure environment and high sense of urgency
- Exceptional telephone manners
- Ability to multitask, proactive and efficient
- Ability to work in a team
- Ability to meet deadlines
- Strong communication, writing and interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail
Minimum requirements to apply for the role (including qualifications and experience):
- Matric
- Strong capability in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook) and Oracle
- Communication and writing skills
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Description
- KPMG is a firm which provides you with an exciting and diverse experience during your ACCA training.
- We provide you with excellent support structures to ensure your wellbeing and personal development. This includes in-house board exams and a dedicated learning and development team committed to making you the best ACCA qualified.
Successful applicants for our ACCA practice will have the following qualifications:
- Minimum BCom degree, with 8 – 9 ACCA exempted competencies (Post-Graduate Diploma Specialized Accountancy, BCom Financial Sciences, BCom Forensic Accounting, BCom Financial Management, BCom Management Accounting etc.)
- Eligible to register for ACCA Strategic level modules (4 modules to be completed) – completed Foundation modules or exempted.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.
- We offer a 36-month training contract, competitive remuneration package and professional challenges.
- You will also benefit from an opportunity to excel in an environment where professionalism and ability are the only criteria for success.
Qualifications
- KPMG is a firm which provides you with an exciting and diverse experience during your ACCA training.
- We provide you with excellent support structures to ensure your wellbeing and personal development. This includes in-house board exams and a dedicated learning and development team committed to making you the best ACCA qualified.
Successful applicants for our ACCA practice will have the following qualifications:
- Minimum BCom degree, with 8 – 9 ACCA exempted competencies (Post-Graduate Diploma Specialized Accountancy, BCom Financial Sciences, BCom Forensic Accounting, BCom Financial Management, BCom Management Accounting etc.)
- Eligible to register for ACCA Strategic level modules (4 modules to be completed) – completed Foundation modules or exempted.
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Description
KPMG South Africa is a multinational firm with an ambition to be the most trusted and trustworthy professional services firm in the world. KPMG is investing aggressively in the Western Cape Advisory market – this led to us restarting our Digital Consulting business in the Western Cape in April 2023. We currently have three team members on the ground in Cape Town, who are supported by our national practice to service Western Cape accounts.
Our Digital Consulting business needs a strong self-driven Senior Manager, who is as passionate as us about helping clients transform their finance operations to effectively meet their organisation’s needs – whilst operating in an efficient cost-effective manner.
The role will provide you with the ability to lead various stages of a clients’ finance transformation journey, from the development of a finance strategies right through to the implementation of relevant policies, processes, organisational structures and technological solutions required to operationalise the strategy.
The role will also expect you to take a leading role in the development of our Digital Consulting business in the Western Cape overall. As such you will be expected to help identify and develop opportunities for new business across our Digital Consulting business. You will also be expected to work with team members from across the Digital Consulting business (e.g. data, technology specialists), providing mentoring and performance development to less senior team members. As a financial management specialist, you will lead the development of client-centric finance transformation proposals.
Key responsibilities:
- Lead the delivery of finance & accounting transformation engagements. From visioning and target operating model development (including future state validation and deployment) to the evolution of implemented operating models;
- Interpret client requirements and co-ordinate/drive the development of proposals for finance transformation projects at clients;
- Support Partners and Associate Directors to grow the finance transformation business, through the drafting of though leadership materials, participation in marketing initiatives;
- Actively manging the development and provision of skills transfer to junior employees;
- Understand how technology enables the finance function of the future etc;
- Display diligence during the execution of any work of KPMG’s internal risk management processes at all times;
- Lead discussions around the “future of finance” and actively participate in generating creative ideas and thoughts; and Other ad-hoc tasks as assigned.
Skills and attributes required for the role:
- 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, numerical skills, communication and interpretation skills;
- Executes excellent “first review” skills;
- Excellent ability to compile PowerPoint decks and able to present with confidence and passion;
- 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;
- Ability to manage high performing teams and provide coaching to enable junior staff members to grow in their role; and the ability to adapt to a changing work environment and accommodate changing client demands.
Qualifications
Minimum requirements to apply for the role:
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience working on finance transformation projects or within a finance environment;
- Financial qualification CA(SA) - preferrable; CIMA; MBA (status of qualifications in progress will be assessed); and
- Passionate about working on finance transformation projects or accounting support related projects.
- Able to work in Cape Town and across South Africa as the business requires
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