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Job Purpose

• Collect, preserve, and analyze digital evidence to determine root cause and scope of compromise.

Responsibilities

• Perform forensic imaging and evidence preservation.
• Analyze disks, memory dumps, logs, and network captures.
• Reconstruct attack timelines and identify indicators of compromise (IOCs).
• Support law enforcement or legal teams with admissible evidence.
• Oversee storage, access control, and security of digital evidence repositories.
• Support investigators with data extractions, large-scale queries, and log analysis.
• Automate ingestion, parsing, and correlation of diverse data sources (network, endpoint, cloud, and application).
• Manage system integrations between forensic platforms, SOAR, and incident response tools.
• Ensure regular patching, backup, and system health monitoring of forensic environments.
• Maintain chain-of-custody controls and documentation within digital evidence systems.
• Evaluate and onboard new forensic or analytics tools to enhance investigative efficiency.
• Administer and maintain all forensic and investigation platforms
• Maintain chain-of-custody controls and audit trails across Azure data and evidence repositories.

Qualifications and skills

• Education: Degree in Digital Forensics, Cybersecurity, or IT.
• Certifications: GCFA, CHFI, EnCE, or CCE or related ones
• Experience: 3–7 years in digital forensics or law enforcement investigations.
• Skills: EnCase, FTK, X-Ways, Volatility, Autopsy, log and packet analysis.
• Strong command of forensic and data platforms (EnCase Enterprise, Magnet AXIOM, Nuix, Relativity, X-Ways, FTK)

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Job Purpose

• Manage and maintain the cloud-based forensic and investigation infrastructure hosted on Microsoft Azure, ensuring secure, reliable, and efficient operation of digital forensics, data analytics, and evidence management platforms.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain all forensic and investigation systems hosted on Azure — including case management, data storage, analytics environments, and automation pipelines.
• Design and manage Azure-based forensic environments, such as isolated investigation VMs, Azure Sentinel workspaces, and secure evidence vaults.
• Support forensic and incident response teams with data ingestion, extraction, and queries from diverse sources (Azure logs, O365, endpoints, and third-party integrations).
• Automate data collection, enrichment, and correlation across Azure services using Logic Apps, PowerShell, and Azure Functions.
• Implement and enforce role-based access control (RBAC) and ensure compliance with evidence handling, retention, and privacy standards.
• Knowledge of configurations relating to RAG, Agentic AI and document analyser, Azure AI etc
• Monitor and optimize Azure resource performance, cost, and security posture for forensic workloads.
• Coordinate with internal IT and security teams to maintain connectivity, patching, and resilience of forensic systems.
• Evaluate and integrate new forensic and data management tools within the Azure ecosystem to enhance investigative capabilities.
• Manage the Azure environment used by front end investigation teams

Qualifications

Education:

• B.Sc. or M.Sc. in Information Technology, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field.

Certifications:

Preferred:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
• Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
• GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE) or CHFI
• Splunk / Kusto Query Language (KQL) proficiency

Experience

• 4–8 years in IT or security operations, with 3+ years managing Azure environments for security, data analytics, or forensic purposes.

Skills

• Expert in Azure services such as Sentinel, Log Analytics, Defender for Cloud, Blob Storage, Key Vault, Logic Apps, RAG, Document Analyser and Azure Automation.
• Knowledge of Proficiency in KQL, PowerShell, and Python for data extraction and automation.
• Understanding of forensic workflows, evidence integrity, and digital investigation processes.
• Knowledge of data retention, encryption, and compliance frameworks

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Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• The Africa audit quality team requires an experienced senior manager or associate director to work directly with the African audit quality leader to drive audit quality initiatives across Africa. The role entails working with all leaders responsible for audit quality initiatives to ensure the strategic audit quality objectives are achieved. In addition to the African role, the colleague will be responsible for managing the Southern Africa file assembly process, the South Africa IRBA reporting process and completion of ISQM 1 controls.

Key responsibilities:

• Audit quality monitoring
• Work with Head of Audit and Audit Quality leader to develop the Africa audit quality plan and monitor and report progress against actions
• Prepare monthly/quarterly audit quality operations committee or board quality committee submissions
• Prepare all audit quality ISQM 1 controls for review by the Audit Quality leader
• Preparation of the annual transparency report
• Co-ordinating and liaising with all leaders responsible for quality initiatives as well as working with Africa audit leaders, EMA and global teams on audit quality reporting
• Milestone monitoring and engagement management lifecycle
• Manage the engagement management lifecycle and milestone monitoring process through liaising with engagement leaders on progress of meeting milestones
• Preparing the monthly reporting in respect of achievement of milestones and actions taken
• Liaise with the technology team to produce meaningful reports to aide in the process
• Southern Africa file assembly process
• Manage the audit file assembly team daily (currently 2 x KDA team members)
• Assist with leadership level follow up on outstanding file closeouts
• Review the register of the 3-way match of DocuSign to KPMG Clara workflow to retention files twice weekly (SoQM Control ZA-10).
• Co-ordinate with the audit technology team on improvements to the tools used and data available
• Support engagement teams with DocuSign and audit file assembly questions on an ad-hoc basis.
• South Africa IRBA reporting
• Manage the team responsible for the maintenance of the data required for IRBA reporting (annual formal declaration process, audit quality indicator (AQI) annual reporting and ad-hoc reporting requirements)
• Prepare the annual IRBA declaration and the annual AQI submissions

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Collaborative and ability to work with multiple stakeholders
• Good organisational and project management skills
• Strong leader
• Good communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills
• Inquisitive to learn and use technology and turn data into knowledge
• Enthusiastic and individual that takes initiative with self-drive
• Knowledgeable on audits and execution of audits and can work well with audit teams, specialists and DPP
• Team player
• Able to see the bigger picture

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

• CA (SA)
• Senior manager or associate director that has audit experience

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About the Job:

• The Forensics Manager will manage forensic engagements with efficiency and the required technical competence.

Experience Required:

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

Skills & Attributes:

• 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

Qualification Required:

• Relevant tertiary qualification, eg BCom Forensic, LLB, CA (SA)
• 5-7 years’ experience as a Forensic Manager
• Proven track record on forensic investigation 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 license and own transport
• Willingness and ability to travel as needed

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Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• The purpose of the role is to provide administrative support to the graduate recruitment team. The incumbent will be responsible for providing a wide range of support to the team across the Audit, tax and Advisory service lines.
• The successful individual will have to deliver a process, project or service involving the completion of a series of defined tasks where accuracy, and timeliness are critical. They will have to be able to take direction from others in completing tasks and assignments and actively seek out work from more senior team members.

Key responsibilities:

Key accountabilities

• Assisting the Graduate recruitment team with all administrative related tasks such as screening applications, contract development, saving documents onto ATS.
• Scheduling interviews and providing feedback to candidates
• Keeping the graduate recruitment officers updated on the status of applications
• Reporting on and tracking applications for the graduate recruitment team
• Document collection and storage

People

• Meets firm deadlines during Performance Development cycles, including seeking quality feedback, setting goals, providing input into engagement/project reviews and having regular conversations with Performance Manager, to a standard expected under Open Performance Development.
• Charges all productive value-add time to Engagement codes to see true value of work delivered and to recognize individual/team effort.
• Shares knowledge with other KPMG colleagues/teams and contributes to the development of knowledge resources.
• Partakes in Global People Survey (GPS) and/or wider people focused actions and initiatives which drive cultural improvement across their local team(s).

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple deadlines
• Attention to detail
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications is critical
• Good communication skills

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

• HR Diploma/degree, experience within a high paced professional services industry will be advantageous. Experience is required.