Job Opening at Deloitte

Job Description
Main Purpose of Job

Senior Managers are expected to contribute to the firm's growth and development in a variety of ways, including:

• Engagement Management: Lead engagement planning and budgeting; mobilize and manage engagement teams; define deliverable structure and content; facilitate buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels at the client; direct on-time,  quality delivery of work products; manage engagement economics; manage engagement risk
• Client Management:  Manage day to day interactions with executive clients and sponsors
• Business Development: Develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients; organize and lead pursuit teams; participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process; contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies
• Practice Development & Eminence:  Develop practical solutions and methodologies; assist in developing  "thoughtware" and "point- of-view" documents; participate in public speaking events; get published in industry periodicals
• People Development: Perform role of counselor and coach; provide input and guidance into the staffing process; actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities; provide leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local offices

Key Performance Areas:

• Strategic Impact - Supports the implementation of strategy of the Service Line / Business Area in relation to specific area of expertise
• Budgets / Profitability - Resources engagement teams with suitable talent, balancing correct levels and numbers and recruiting as necessary; manages margins effectively through accurate budgeting, pricing and profitability management on engagements
• Planning, control & production - Liaise, plan, manage, execute, control and report on any of the division production activities.

Key Competencies required / Talent Standards Capabilities:

Leadership / Behavioural Capabilities

• Living our Purpose - Acts as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values, and recognizing others for the impact they make
• Influence - Influences clients, teams, and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people
• Performance drive - Delivers exceptional client service; maximizes results and drives high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders
• Strategic direction - Understands key objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligns people to objectives and sets priorities and direction
• Talent development - Develops high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities

Cross-Consulting Capabilities

• Delivery Excellence - Ability to plan and execute a project to deliver a superior client experience
• Knows the Business and Sector - Ability to comprehend how the client’s business works and keep up-to-date on industry/sector trends and leading practices
• Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Ability to identify and solve problems objectively using analysis, experience and judgment
• Financial Acumen - Ability to incorporate financial information when evaluating business opportunities and making recommendations
• Executive Presence - Ability to develop relationships, establish credibility with and instill confidence in clients
• Global Mindset - Ability to leverage cross-geography insights and practitioners to enhance client service delivery
• Business-Technology Acumen - Ability to articulate how technology enables and differentiates the business and communicate this effectively to clients

Qualifications
Qualifications & Experience required

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university with strong undergraduate academic record.
• 8 years of consulting and relevant experience required or 8 plus years of larger firm consulting experience.
• Proven experience in leading  large, complex engagements.
• Ability to lead and deliver large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies.
• Prior experience providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.
• Ability to demonstrate experience in overseeing the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.
• Experience in developing and presenting proposals for business development activities.
• The ability and willingness to travel up to 80%.

Additional Information

• Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.

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Job Description
Main Purpose of Job

Managers are expected to contribute to the firm's growth and development in a variety of ways, including:

• Engagement Management: Lead engagement planning and budgeting; mobilize and manage engagement teams; define deliverable structure and content; facilitate buy-in of proposed solutions from top management levels at the client; direct on-time,  quality delivery of work products; manage engagement economics; manage engagement risk
• Client Management:  Manage day to day interactions with executive clients and sponsors
• Business Development: Develop and maintain contact with top decision makers at key clients; organize and lead pursuit teams; participate and lead aspects of the proposal development process; contribute to the development of proposal pricing strategies
• Practice Development & Eminence:  Develop practical solutions and methodologies; assist in developing  "thoughtware" and "point- of-view" documents; participate in public speaking events; get published in industry periodicals
• People Development: Perform role of counselor and coach; provide input and guidance into the staffing process; actively participate in staff recruitment and retention activities; provide leadership and support for delivery teams and staff in local offices

Key Performance Areas:

• Strategic Impact - Supports the implementation of strategy of the Service Line / Business Area in relation to specific area of expertise
• Budgets / Profitability - Resources engagement teams with suitable talent, balancing correct levels and numbers and recruiting as necessary; manages margins effectively through accurate budgeting, pricing and profitability management on engagements
• Planning, control & production - Liaise, plan, manage, execute, control and report on any of the division production activities.

Key Competencies required / Talent Standards Capabilities:

Leadership / Behavioural Capabilities

• Living our Purpose - Acts as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values, and recognizing others for the impact they make
• Influence - Influences clients, teams, and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people
• Performance drive - Delivers exceptional client service; maximizes results and drives high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders
• Strategic direction - Understands key objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligns people to objectives and sets priorities and direction
• Talent development - Develops high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities

Cross-Consulting Capabilities

• Delivery Excellence - Ability to plan and execute a project to deliver a superior client experience
• Knows the Business and Sector - Ability to comprehend how the client’s business works and keep up-to-date on industry/sector trends and leading practices
• Analytical Thinking & Problem Solving - Ability to identify and solve problems objectively using analysis, experience and judgment
• Financial Acumen - Ability to incorporate financial information when evaluating business opportunities and making recommendations
• Executive Presence - Ability to develop relationships, establish credibility with and instill confidence in clients
• Global Mindset - Ability to leverage cross-geography insights and practitioners to enhance client service delivery
• Business-Technology Acumen - Ability to articulate how technology enables and differentiates the business and communicate this effectively to clients

Qualifications
Qualifications & Experience required

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university with strong undergraduate academic record.
• 8 years of consulting and relevant experience required or 8 plus years of larger firm consulting experience.
• Proven experience in leading  large, complex engagements.
• Ability to lead and deliver large, complex client engagements that identify, design, and implement creative business and technology solutions for large companies.
• Prior experience providing service excellence by identifying key client business issues, determining client needs by supplementing the standard assessment techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating and validating analysis and developing recommendations for the client in the context of the overall engagement.
• Ability to demonstrate experience in overseeing the quality of deliverables and effectively manage the team and day-to-day relationships to ensure exceptional performance.
• Experience in developing and presenting proposals for business development activities.

Additional Information

• Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.

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Job Description
Main Purpose of Job

To support the Tax Management Consulting leadership to effectively manage the DESMAT business. Focus on the management and delivery of client engagements, as well as sales and practice development. Develop high-performing people and teams, leading and supporting them to make an impact that matters, and setting the direction to deliver exceptional client service. Focus on the management and delivery of ongoing client engagements, as well as sales and practice development. Managing and maintaining relationships with DESMAT clients and prospective clients. Manage all aspects of the DESMAT business, including contracting, the financial aspects, WIP and debtor management and management of budget and pipeline Managing the maintenance of the solution (e.g. managing changes / upgrades to the solution. Management of external and internal service providers. Management of Global and interfirm relationships

Specialized Technical Capabilities

Compliance and Planning

•          Leads processes and identifies sustainable planning opportunities to help clients mitigate risk, meet compliance obligations and statutory deadlines, and realize business goals
•          Drives and manages the entire compliance and planning process as a whole
•          Identifies potential planning opportunities or opportunities for other service lines
•          Demonstrates ability to quickly identify risk areas and advise clients on ways to mitigate risks
•          Designs, proposes, and works with clients to implement planning strategies that are consistent with client’s strategic goals
•          Incorporates legislative changes and implications into client planning and discussions
•          Recognizes the need to connect with the right subject matter experts (SMEs) on technical topics that are beyond their level of expertise
•          Demonstrates excellent knowledge of SA Tax rules and Laws

Process and Data Flow, Design, Alignment, and Improvement

•          Demonstrates advanced knowledge of spreadsheet optimization
•          Engages with key client personnel to ensure implementations are achieved
•          Drives continual development of solution and improvement of approach to clients
•          Leads the client working sessions and discussions designed to help highlight areas of improvement and time savings for the company
•          Applies expertise to design and/or recommends tools and approaches to automate and streamline key processes and tax sensitize pertinent tax data from source systems
•          Delivers strategic input into global vendor relationships based on project experiences and key strategic priorities

Tax Data Analytics

•          Interprets tax data related to business intelligence and performance, implementation and support of applications, infrastructure and technologies to gather and forecast future trends
•          Assesses the scope and resources required of various analytics projects and works with clients to define necessary resources
•          Manages client relations to ensure that expectations for dashboards are met and fulfilled
•          Develops teams and analytics practice in order to elevate analytics capabilities
•          Identifies potential opportunities for (Tax Management Consulting) TMC and other service lines to sell engagements

Leadership / Behavioural Capabilities

•          Living our Purpose - Acts as a role model and inspires others to embrace and live our purpose and values
•          Influence - Builds deep relationships across a diverse network and uses a flexible influencing style to gain buy-in and drive impact
•          Performance drive - Creates opportunities to drive impact; anticipates client needs and delivers superior results by leveraging each person’s strengths to build high performing teams across businesses and borders
•          Strategic Direction - Translates broader strategy into a compelling team vision and goals; aligns the team and sets priorities to achieve objectives
•          Talent Development - Actively contributes to building the talent pipeline; creates a talent experience that attracts, develops and retains top talent and high performing teams

Qualifications
Qualifications & Experience required

Required

• CA (SA) or Information Systems or BSc Computer Science qualification/degree or B Com Accounting

Preferred

• Project Management qualification
• Tax qualification
•  7 years’ tax  experience 3 years in a management role

Additional Information

How you’ll grow

• At Deloitte, our professional development plan focuses on helping people at every level of their career to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn. We offer opportunities to help build world-class skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs at Deloitte University, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their career. Explore Deloitte University, The Leadership Center. https://deloitte.zoomforth.com/du

Benefits

• At Deloitte, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our people and offer employees a broad range of benefits. Learn more about what working at Deloitte can mean for you. https://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/careers/articles/benefits.html

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Job Description
Purpose of the Role 

• To create, own and deliver on the overall Talent Strategy for Deloitte Audit and Assurance  (including HR, Recruitment, Learning and Operations management across Consulting Africa, through the effective delegation and management of the team’s delivery to the business and leadership team.    
• To ensure that the People & Purpose  Team delivers an integrated and seamless service which is aligned with the service line business strategy.

Key Performance Areas:

 Strategic Impact:

• Understands the business mandate and communicates this effectively to the team / Establishes and maintains external business relationships within area of expertise to collaborate on, understand and share best practice / Based on expertise and experience, advises and supports Service Line leadership in identification and implementation of innovative solutions to issues arising within area of expertise
• This role leads and owns the development and delivery of the overall Talent strategy for HR, Learning, Operations and Recruitment for Deloitte Consulting Africa / Directs implementation of strategy within area of expertise through a detailed plan / Supports leadership in achievement of overall Firm’s strategic objectives. This also includes the transformation agenda, the D&I agenda, the attraction of scarce skills agenda, the technical learning agenda, support of the professional learning agenda, as well as the staffing agenda for DC, which is a global mandate. Builds strong professional relationships across Deloitte Service Line leadership levels to understand varying needs of different areas. The incumbent of this role is expected to have knowledge of the leadership across Deloitte, as well as in-depth knowledge of the various service area offerings in DC specifically to enable HR, recruitment, learning and operations.

Internal Client Impact: 

• Oversees the delivery of a significant area of Deloitte’s People & Purpose (P&P) collaborating with other specialised areas within P&P centres of excellence like SAP, Reward, Risk Independence and Legal (RIL) and central Learning / Provides support to Service Line CEO and COO on strategic / complex technical issues that include partner matters like running partner performance reviews, assisting in poor performance of directors, director misconduct and strategic guidance on complex talent needs which need translation into outsourced strategy models and platforms which are used internally in DC / Acts as sounding board to teams on business decisions and direction as needed.
• This includes both the C-suite leadership in DC, as well as the DC P&P  team / Develops thought leadership within area of expertise and shares knowledge through internal presentations, and to team for delivery improvement.

Operational Effectiveness:  

• Maintains high level oversight of all change initiatives, implementation of projects, quality and timeliness of team delivery which includes performance review deadlines, turnaround times in recruitment, quality and quantity of learning programmes.
• This also relates to all global projects across the People and Purpose  (P&P) offerings that roll out in DC / Provides teams with expert advice in terms of strategic business partnering, direction and recognition to team / Provides own Service Line leadership in this case, the Talent Partner and COO, with status of delivery across the business for reporting purposes / Oversees risk issues within area of responsibility and address non-compliance as a matter of urgency.
• This role has increased in the last year owing to tighter and more stringent Risk, Independence and Legal requirements in both HR and Recruitment e.g. team lifts done from other firms / Drives Deloitte values of exceptional service to internal clients, growing the firm’s brand and talent development.

Development / Growth of Team:  

• Identifies, recruits, mentors and develops managerial offering team members / Acts as counsellor to Senior Manager / Manager employees within Service Line ensuring effective coaching and guidance in development and career growth (may act as counsellor to employees from other Service Lines).
• This role has a Senior Manager reporting to it – both the executive search role and our senior manager for Recruitment / Develops effective relationships with key talent and ensure they are well supported in their career growth / Maintains robust succession plan for all senior / critical resources, depending on the profile / need expertise / Empowers existing senior managers / managers through effective delegation / Provides consistent recognition and encouragement to teams and leads by example / Demonstrates commitment to transformation agenda of the firm.

Budgets and Cost Containment:  

Provides annual budget for People and Purpose  (P&P) to LeadCo / Manages Audit and Assurance  P&P budget ensuring no overruns and approving overall expenses and costs.
Differentiators for this specific role:

• The incumbent of this role is responsible for the full Talent Portfolio of Deloitte Consulting Africa, which includes HR, Recruitment, Learning and Operations
• This role requires the individual to analyse, ideate, and create Talent solutions for business with oftentimes vague and ambiguous information provided to ensure a distinctive talent experience from recruitment, through development, global projects, retention and eventual alumni status
• The incumbent will be required to negotiate with external vendors and suppliers as required, in agreeing upon rates, fees and contract terms acceptable to DC as a whole      
• This role requires the individual to be able to operate and make an impact broader than just the Consulting role, as leadership expects this individual to contribute towards and lead projects (like Resource Management) and initiatives (like MADC), and facilitate at events (like the Management Summit and various internal courses), that impact positively on the firm as a collective
• The role is responsible for the full HR value chain
• Recruitment of the best talent to meet Consulting’s aggressive growth targets including the ideation and roll out of graduate programme across Consulting
• Development of talent through roles, curricula and liaising on Deloitte University programmes, material and best practice
• Retention of top talent through specific initiatives as well as having an in-depth understanding of remuneration and EVP
• Implementation of DC specific projects with significant impact on the business
• Development and retention of Transformation Talent
• Running full performance and reward process start to end for Consulting with complicated structures and natures of individual contracts including the director body
• A key area of responsibility of this role is problem solving as Leadership expects that this role take full responsibility for problem solving across value chain to ensure undisputed leadership in the support functions
• Internal client relationships are deliberately built, maintained and grown to ensure success in role
• This specific role is driven by relationships that span across both the business and the Talent practices
• This role requires ownership and responsibility for dynamic problem solving to meet a very agile business

Core Professional Technical / Behavioural Capabilities

• Expert in field with excellent industry and business knowledge
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Ability to interpret, communicate and implement strategy
• Demonstrated execution of complex projects within timeframes and cost
• Experienced in development and delivery of professional presentations
• Excellent report writing skills
• Solid financial knowledge
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
• Excellent mentorship and coaching ability with desire to develop self and others
• Strong client delivery focus
• Highly adaptable, managing change and ambiguity with ease
• Focus on quality and risk
• Excellent problem solving ability
• Exceptional business acumen

Qualifications
Qualifications and Experience Required

• Bachelors Degree, Honours Degree
• Postgraduate qualification (relevant to Service Area / Business Management, etc.) - Preferred

Experience Required

• A minimum of 12+ years’ experience within the relevant function
• At least 5+ years in a senior management role
• Academic & extensive, deep knowledge of the full function HR Value Chain, with an ability to apply knowledge to resolve the most complex business issues

Additional Information

• ​Please note that this job advertisement provides a summary of the capabilities required and all candidates shortlisted will receive a full list of capabilities.