Job Opportunities at KPMG South Africa

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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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 Functional HR Managers provide Functional Business Units (BU) with PPC expertise and serve as the interface between Business Units and the Centers of Excellence. They provide line management support for the Business Unit Managers/Partners to assist with day-to-day HR requirements and HR programs delivery in line with the Business strategy. They assist line managers in forecasting and planning their talent pipeline requirements in line with the Function or Business strategy and provide BU specific HR solutions. They also serve as the Learning Business partner, communicating training requirements to L&D and facilitating all information requirements between the BU and L&D. They assist the Business with relevant HR transactional work that resides within the Business units.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain a current and appropriate knowledge of KPMG and HR strategies, Business priorities and major trends, especially in areas that are relevant to the Function
• Provide input into BU HR Strategy
• Translate strategy into Business needs
• Enable BU Leadership to achieve strategic goals by integrating HR Strategy into BU strategy
• Delivery of top priority HR related projects against specified strategies, objectives and measures.

Render PPC services on a day to day basis to allocated BU’s i.e.:

• Talent acquisition
• Talent management and retention
• Performance Development
• Learning and development
• Mobility
• Succession planning
• Organisational effectiveness
• Reward and recognition
• Serve as a custodian for KPMG PPC (HR and L&D) Policies and Procedures
• Drive a relentless focus on quality and excellent service
• Employee relations
• Drive compliance to all KPMG deadlines
• Understand internal and external stakeholders and their needs
• Deliver role requirements with a client centric approach
• Ensure effective BU and / or Function financial management and budgeting processes
• Create and enable an environment where colleagues thrive in a constantly changing business environment
• Demonstrate high quality and timeous verbal and written communication
• Promote and support the Firm’s transformation strategy
• Contribute to the alignment of the Function transformation strategy to the Firm’s transformation strategy
• Ensure Business leadership and colleagues experience a consistent people experience
• Analyse and understand BU colleague data to proactively respond to people needs
• Prioritise colleague well being
• Promote and facilitate colleague engagement

Skills
Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Strategic thinking skills.
• Computer literacy.
• Communication (written and oral) and negotiation skills
• Analytical/statistical skills
• Budget skills.
• Action orientation.
• Transformational leadership.
• Problem solving and decision-making.
• Team leadership.
• Registration with Health Professions Council of South Africa, Institute of People Development, SA Board for People Practices (SABPP), Association of Change Management Practitioners, and Skills Development Association (FASSET) would be advantageous

Personal Attributes

• Ability to deal with conflict.
• Extremely high level of confidentially 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.
• Ability to lead and manage multi-disciplinary team.
• Team player who is self-aware.
• Strong organisation skills; a self-starter with initiative, ability to foster innovation and a common-sense approach to problem solving.
• Sound decision making ability
• High level of attention to detail and a desire to drive quality

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

• A relevant Degree / Diploma in a social sciences or a management discipline e.g. Human resource management or industrial psychology or other relevant discipline or studying towards one
• Minimum 5 years’ HR generalist experience.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience working at a management level in HR.
• Knowledge in HR methodologies, tools and techniques and the HR value chain.
• Knowledge in HR strategy development and enablement.
• Knowledge of emerging trends in HR and utilising a variety of HR tools / models to achieve results.
• Knowledge of the relevant labour and skills regulatory frameworks (skills development, B-BBEE, etc.).

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Purpose Of The Job
The purpose of this role is:

• To find and attract top talent to support our critical recruiting programs nationally across business units.

Key Job Duties Or Responsibilities

• Conduct the end-to-end recruitment process for assigned positions
• Partner with key stakeholders (People Partners, Hiring Managers and Business Unit Partners) to determine future needs and set and drive enabling sourcing strategies
• Drive sourcing capability to proactively build diverse all available talent channels to expedite the recruitment of open roles
• Headhunting of senior and/or scarce roles within the business
• Manage recruiting reports, dashboards, and establish and track metrics to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the recruiting team, hiring managers and interviewers
• Manage fixed term contracts and resource contractor process for assigned function
• Manage the Trainee Retention process (in conjunction with Business)
• Participate in cross-business/function recruitment projects and initiatives
• Maintain service delivery, quality standards and turn around tiems against KPI’s and SLA’s with the business
• Provide stakeholder with regular timely updates

Critical Interpersonal Or Interactive Skills

• Ability to operate and think on feet
• Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
• Team player with good people skills
• High level of competence
• Ability to deal effectively with people at all levels
• Be able to interact directly with clients and potential candidates in a professional manner
• Excellent time management, planning and organizational skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Innovative thinker

Qualifications And Experience

• At least 5 years’ relevant experience in Talent Management level
• At least 5 years solid recruitment track record of record of success in identifying and attracting talent to fulfil immediate business needs
• Executing strategies for critical long-term talent pipelines including but not limited to senior roles
• Experience in an agency environment will be advantageous