Jobs at KPMG South Africa

Description of the role and purpose of the job:

The Finance Business Unit of KPMG South Africa is responsible for providing services that support the business objectives and strategy of the Southern African region. It oversees financial systems, planning and management activities, including budgeting and forecasting, collections, reporting and compliance, and creation of value.

This role will support the CFO in pro-actively managing the relationship amongst KPMG member firms in Southern Africa, via support and administrative assistance.

Key responsibilities:

Financial Reporting

•          Assist the CFO with the production of annual financial statements for all entities in South Africa.
•          Ensure all legislative reporting requirements are met e.g. Stats SA, CIPC.
•          Assist the CFO with production of accurate, timely monthly & annual financial reporting for the KPMG Executive & Board relating to the “Over the Border”(OTB) member firms.
•          Prepare monthly reporting of OTB financials and other related reporting to the region
•          Ensure financial month-end and year-end timetable is prepared and distributed to the OTB regions and are aligned with the SA member firms timelines and policies.
•          Align and monitor the financial month end and year end processes of the OTB member firms to the South African firm
•          Monitor the financial performance; lockup and cash management of the OTB countries.
•          Further develop technical specialist knowledge in the finance arena.
•          Use Oracle and other professional software in an effective manner.
•          Ensures that department milestones/goals are met.
•          Provides prompt and meaningful information which reflects knowledge, insight and experience.
•          Other ad-hoc tasks as assigned.

Taxation

         Liaise with the OTB finance managers to ensure that their respective tax returns are submitted.

Management

•          Serve as a key contact person to the Finance Managers in the OTB countries assisting in the resolution of issues arising in payroll, accounting, accounts payable and accounts receivable teams in the OTB countries

Annual Financial Statements

•          Responsible for drafting and/or reviewing annual financial statements of the sub-licencee’s

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Chartered Accountant
• Tenacious, hardworking, resilient.

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

• Chartered Accountant or equivalent

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Description of the role and purpose of the job:

•  The role of the Senior Manager would be to assist in origination and manage the execution of public and private mergers, acquisitions and divestitures across all industry sectors, various types of capital raising transactions across South African (and Sub-Saharan Africa).

Key responsibilities:

As a Senior Manager in M&A your responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

• Leading the day-to-day management of projects
• Liaising with the relevant counterparts at the client and other advisers (accounting, legal etc.)
• Coordinating project deliverables and due diligence with other advisers
• Supporting senior management and coverage bankers in origination efforts
• Conducting detailed valuation analysis, including DCF, trading comparables, transaction comparables and LBO analysis
• Performing and reviewing detailed combination models, transaction structuring, valuation and other financial analysis
• Overseeing the preparation of presentation books, management presentations, board materials, memoranda, and other presentation materials for use in transactions or strategic client dialogue
• Interaction with senior team members and client management teams on a daily basis to execute transactions and discuss strategic alternatives
• Providing leadership, mentorship and supervision to junior staff
• Presenting conclusions and reports to C-level executives
• Preparing tailored proposals
• Completing risk management procedures from inception up to acceptance of engagements
• Managing work-in-progress, billing and collection of invoices
   

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Ability to work under pressure, meet deadlines and initiative to take responsibility for tasks and drive them to completion – self starter
• Exceptionally strong financial modelling/valuation skills
• Knowledge of the South African regulatory environment
• Ability to deal with individuals across all levels
• Strong client focus
• Ability to build and sustain relationships with people at all levels
• Excellent project management/organizational skills and detail orientated
• Ability to react well to pressure whilst multitasking on numerous projects
• Ability to work independently whilst producing and delivering results
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills (writing, etc)
• Pro-active and efficient
• Strong business acumen
   

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

• B-Com degree or equivalent graduate qualification;
• CA(SA), CIMA or CFA qualification
• Minimum 6 years  mergers and acquisitions experience with demonstrable transaction experience
• Proven experience in project coordination and implementation
• Proven experience in supervising and coaching junior colleagues
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)

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About Job

We Are Looking To Improve And Work On The Following Services For Our Clients

As one of South Africa’s largest consulting firms, KPMG’s mission is to be the leader in cloud implementation, optimization and migration.

•        Implementation of structured, reliable data engineering processes
•        Data lake and data warehousing architectures in a cloud environment
•        Cloud migrations (on-site, hybrid and offsite)
•        Data Extraction
•        Insight and Analytics

We are looking for experience data engineers to consult on both a functional and technical level to design and implement leading practice modern data warehousing cloud solutions and assist our clients in navigating through the journey.

Your responsibilities will include:

•        Designing, developing, testing and maintaining data architectures
•        Designing, developing, and testing large stream data pipelines to ingest, aggregate, clean, and distribute data models ready for analysis
•        Ensuring the highest standard in data integrity
•        Collaborating with other engineers, ML experts, analysts, and stakeholders to produce the most efficient and valuable solutions
•        Leveraging best practices in continuous integration and delivery
•        Understand and implement features, technology and industry leading practice to ensure scalability and efficiency
•        Mentor and upskill juniors

Qualifications & Experience:

• Degree in Computer Science, information systems , Engineering or equivalent experience 
• 2-3 years relevant industry experience
• Experience developing ETL processes using Databricks and Python
• Exposure to Azure, AWS or GCP cloud technology (Proof of certification or work experience required)
• Experience with data lakes and data warehousing architectures in cloud environments
• Experience with data visualisation and modelling tools (Power BI or Tableau or similar)
• Experience with DevOps related practices and Continuous Integration and Delivery
• Ability to lead teams technically
• Microsoft D365FO, SAP S4 Hana or other related ERP experience is desirable
• Consulting experience preferable

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Description of the role and purpose of the job:

• We are looking for a deal advisory manager to provide strategic, unbiased and objective deal advisory services to our clients and work along with other departments (for e.g. tax & legal) in arriving as tailored solutions to clients. The resource should be able to work across all deal advisory service offerings.

Key responsibilities:

• Supporting deal advisory engagements including liaising with the client and managing the engagement team
• Preparing databooks and initial research for reports
• Providing on the job training to colleagues on the engagement team
• Initial preparing valuations, reports and audit memos, Due diligence reports and Information memos
• Initial reviewing reports and audit memos
• Presenting valuations conclusions and reports to C-level executives
• Assist in preparing tailored proposals
• Completing risk management procedures from inception up to acceptance of engagements
   

Skills and attributes required for the role:

1) Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines – self starter

2) Ability to deal with individuals across all levels

3) Strong client focus

4) Ability to build and sustain relationships with people at all levels

5) Ability to work independently whilst producing and delivering results

6) Strong communication and interpersonal skills (writing, etc)

7) Pro-active and efficient

8) Strong business acumen

9) Strong research capability

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

1 B-Com degree or equivalent graduate qualification;

• CA(SA), CIMA or CFA qualification
• Minimum 3 years deal advisory experience
• Proven experience in project coordination and implementation
• Proven experience in supervising and coaching junior colleagues
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook)

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Description of the role and purpose of the job:

KPMG is currently seeking a Manager, to join our Cyber Security consulting and assurance practice. Cyber Security is a part of wider Technology Assurance practice.

• The KPMG Cyber Security practice is one of our fastest growing practices. We are seeing tremendous client demand, and looking forward we don't anticipate that slowing down. In this ever-changing market environment, our professionals must be adaptable and thrive in a collaborative, team-driven culture. At KPMG, our people are our number one priority. With a wealth of learning and career development opportunities, a world-class training facility and leading market tools, we make sure our people continue to grow both professionally and personally. If you're looking for a firm with a strong team connection where you can be your whole self, have an impact, advance your skills, deepen your experiences, and have the flexibility and access to constantly find new areas of inspiration and expand your capabilities, then consider a career in Technology Advisory.
• Working with KPMG you will consult on client projects, translating business and customer needs into innovative business and technology solutions. You will identify changes and recommend solutions that will typically involve a combination of cyber strategy and security excellence outcomes. You will be exposed to a range of exciting projects across industry sectors and service lines including:
• Driving the linkage between business strategy and cyber security (and vice versa), to deliver meaningful outcomes
• Defining the technology strategy to create new streams of value in a business, and defining associated technology execution roadmaps
• Designing innovative technology solutions for improving cyber security posture and advise on reducing cyber risk
• Identify and assist client in meeting compliance requirement for and through cyber security
• Assist in program management or assurance for shaping and defining security programs and embed cyber security in wider digital or business program
• Working closely with the local team and member firms to bring innovation to our existing capabilities to help KPMG remain at the forefront of strategy, operational excellence and technology practices and thinking
• As part of the role you will be expected to have detailed knowledge of security technologies and their application to addressing business challenges. The focus will be on delivering high quality engagement outcomes for our clients and maintaining productive client relationships that allow you to build strong professional networks over time.
• We believe in diversity of thought background and unique experience. You need to have a solid background in technology as well as consulting and are capable of defining cyber security strategies within large and complex environments, working with industry-leading experts in their respective fields. You're passionate about technology and innovation, finding novel approaches to solve problems. You thrive in a collaborative and innovative culture and want to join a firm that values problem solvers, the kind of people who reimagine the possible for their clients and key stakeholders.

We are looking for people in this role with a passion for and / or experience in the following areas:

• Experienced in cyber security strategy, planning and implementation
• Thorough knowledge of standards such as NIST, ISO 27001 and other applicable industry requirements
• An experience in automation of compliance and assurance is desirable
• Knowledge of application and security architecture on conventional on-premise and cloud stacks (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS)
• Abreast of major technology trends, innovations and their practical (or potential) application
• Approaches to technology governance and innovative ways of working
• Excellent documentation and report writing skills

Key responsibilities:

• Take responsibility for leading technology based consulting engagements, managing the day to day delivery effort and work of the delivery team
• Leading the technology planning and design for client engagements
• Acting as a subject matter expert in the business for cyber security domains
• Analyse, workshop and present insights and recommendations enabled by strategic thinking, technical knowledge and strong and clear communication skills
• Performing platform and vendor evaluations on behalf of clients if the need be
• Take responsibility for delivering high quality deliverables and outcomes for our clients
• Undertake and lead business development activities including the creation of compelling and differentiated value propositions in opportunity pursuits
• Support a high-performance culture to consistently deliver quality outcomes for clients and great growth opportunities and mentorship for junior colleagues
• Ability to identify potential business development / sales opportunities
• Report writing
• Building capabilities and methodologies
• Performance management of allocated colleagues

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Demonstrate grasp of business processes and risk management in areas such as cyber security, cloud computing, identity management, security compliances, technology risk management, and others
• Knowledge of enterprise IT environments, cloud platforms and governance processes. The candidate must be proficient with technology platforms and communicate this information to the engagement team and client management through written correspondence and verbal presentations.
• Plan and execute client engagements focusing on assessment, review, design and/or implementation of security strategy; identify improvement opportunities in the areas of process efficiency and security including role-based security and identity and access management based on KPMG's methodology
• Identify and evaluate complex business and technology risks and remediation methods to mitigate risks
• Contribute to practice growth by leading solution design and innovation related to cloud security platforms
   

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

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in consulting and/or implementation of security technology and strategy and compliances,
• Experience on design and implementation with emphasis on security, security operations and integration; IT risk management.
• Bachelor's degree in an appropriate field from an accredited college/university
• Possess baseline security certification such as CISM/CISSP/GSEC/CISA/cloud certification for Microsoft Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform or studying towards attaining the certification
• Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, leadership, business development, and presentation skills
• Ability to travel, subject to regulations