Ongoing Recruitment at KPMG

KPMG is a global network of independent professional services firm with deep expertise in the provision of audit, tax and advisory services to clients in various industries and sectors of the economy. The Firm is well represented in Nigeria and across the African continent, with the objective of providing exceptional and quality services to multinational, regional and local clients and to enhance the product offerings in certain previously under-serviced markets.

We are recruiting to fill the following positions below:

1.) DevOps Engineering Lead (Africa)

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time

Description and Purpose of the Job

• At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: to turn insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world.
• We seek a professional with broad cloud engineering experience to help clients architect and automate software development leveraging cloud platforms and technologies.
• This is a Pan Africa role with responsibility for leading a team across the continent. This resource will be based in either Joburg, Nairobi or Lagos.

Key Responsibilities
Strategy:

• Provide DevOps and Cloud engineering support to the Africa digital transformation team
• Leverage local and global KPMG artefacts, SMEs, and other network assets to shape a compelling and pragmatic strategy
• Manage, coach and grow the DevOps and Cloud engineering team
• Lead key business development activities for advisory products including targeting key C- level clients, proposing services and closing opportunities
• Ensure service teams are buoyant and properly resourced
• Leverage regional alliances with technology partners (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, AWS, Google, etc) to drive proactive leads generation, joint pitch, pipeline management and conversions where required
• Build strong relationships with CTOs and be the trusted Cloud and DevOps advisor
• Ensure all teams are complying with both client and firm regulatory and security controls and can feed these ways of working back to the community

Client Impact:

• Work with clients to architect products, platforms and solutions that are performant, scalable and extensible
• Provide subject matter expertise to clients across Africa on cloud-related subjects
• Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure we provide clients with the latest and most effective solutions
• Work closely with clients to understand business needs and develop tailored solutions
• Develop and implement effective cloud strategies for clients across Africa
• Drive business growth across Africa through new business development and expansion of existing client accounts
• Develop practice through thought leadership and training

Finance:

• Deliver on targets and goals (including sales goals)
• Provide annual budget input for the area of responsibility for approval and integration into service line/ growth area budget
• Manage the annual budget, including costs for designated area

Qualification, Experience and Skills

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or any other relevant field
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, and DevOps engineering roles with demonstrable knowledge of cloud technologies
• Proven experience in software development or scripting languages such as Python/Go/PowerShell/Nodejs/C# or equivalent
• Solid CI/CD pipelining skills and experience using any of Octopus/TeamCity/Jenkins/Azure DevOps or equivalent
• Well-grounded experience leading and delivering large software, infrastructure, and cloud transformational projects
• Expertise in the design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure and services.
• Extensive hands-on experience with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and/or GCP
• Proven experience on performance tuning, troubleshooting and resolution of issues that may arise in production

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems
• Automate the provisioning, scaling, and management of cloud resources using tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
• Deep experience with Container orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes or Docker swarm
• Pre-sales experience with OEMs or consulting experience will be an added advantage
• Being a self-starter and able to work independently including across multiple priorities and complex matrixed roles and responsibilities
• Confident, tactful and able to effectively influence others and deal effectively with senior leaders
• Critical thinking, presentation and analytical skills will be an advantage
• Ability to have deep technical level discussions with engineers, to explain the business benefits of a range of technologies to non-technical partners and clients
• Have a keen eye for opportunity
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship skills at C-suite level both internally and client facing
• Ability to operate in a highly context switching environment for not only different clients but different business sectors and different technologies
• Be the Cloud and DevOps advocate to a wider audience inside and outside of the business
• Strong communicator, including listening skills with an ability to translate insights across business and technology teams and to develop and present new ideas and conceptualize new approaches and solutions
• Strong team and work ethic, comfortable with ambiguity, change and challenge
• Extensive experience managing large or multiple teams of engineers
• Product focused, build once and reuse
• Take responsibility for own code
• Proven experience working in an agile environment
• Ability to empower teams to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal input
• Curiosity - Bring fresh ideas to the team and wider firm

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2.) Digital Transformation Sales Enablement Lead

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time

Description and Purpose of the Job

• At KPMG, you’ll find a world of opportunity, where our people give clients and communities the insights, they need to build a sustainable future.
• This role seeks an experienced professional to drive growth through sales enablement to achieve the firm’s digital transformation strategy and vision.
• If you excel in fast-paced environments and have 6 years of strong B2B experience in sales enablement involving complex products in an OEM or Consulting environment, we want to talk to you.
• This individual will work with the global Connected Enterprise team and various other global teams, the sector line of business (LOB) and functional teams across our African network of member firms to drive the firm’s sales agenda for Connected Enterprise in Africa.
• As the Sales Enablement Lead for Connected Enterprise (the firm’s global approach to digital transformation) in Africa, you will be responsible for defining our sales enablement strategy, selecting tools, and developing processes to deliver on that strategy, and ultimately increasing the effectiveness of our Africa sales organization.
• N.B: Please note that the ideal candidate will be based in Johannesburg, Nairobi or Lagos. The candidate will work from this base to serve their responsibilities across the region.*

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the primary contact for Connected Enterprise related sales queries for Africa
• Provide Sales Enablement support for Accounts to grow with Sales & Pipeline Management, Reporting, Financial Analysis with Account Summary and Go-To-Market Strategies
• Pursuits support with Strategic Research, Marketing, Event Coordination and Relationship Building Projects
• Strong Research Support identifying industry trends and disruptions and contextualizing them to highlight the potential market opportunity areas to win complex problem
• Sector/Client – lead campaigns from scoping to executing the final product/solution
• Attend and participate in all calls with the account team counterparts and share progress and status updates
• Provide support to Business Development Teams on Go-To-Market Strategies, Field of Play Analysis, Solution Centric Support, Financial Analysis and Relationship Management
• Revenue planning by coordinating with Connected Cluster Heads and Service Line Heads
• Provide enablers to identify specific actionable and strategic opportunities for the firm
• Maintain & develop marketing and knowledge artefacts working with relevant global teams to ensure consistency and compliance with latest narrative and insights
• Lead on Connected Maturity Assessment workshops with account and pursuit teams in Africa
• Lead on Connected Enterprise sales training for Africa
• Work closely with relevant technology alliances teams and leaders.
• Help the BD Team with RFP, RFI, along with Analyst views
• Work proactively and respond to Account Coordinators, Business Development Executive, Market Operation Leader & Partners
• Develop and maintain healthy working relationships with the Account Teams
• Proactively reaching out to account teams soliciting feedback for the work and taking appropriate action
• Be responsible for the Connected Enterprise pipeline management for Africa and reporting thereof into the global team.

Qualifications and Experience

• Candidates should possess a B.Sc. B.A. Degree or equivalent
• 6+ years of B2B experience in a sales enablement leadership role
• Proven experience creating and deploying successful onboarding plans within sales organizations
• Demonstrated track record of developing and delivering training programs with measurably improve sales productivity and performance
• Experience with high-touch, enterprise sales cycles

Skills and attributes required for the role:

• Strong knowledge of sales effectiveness (skills/knowledge training)
• Strong project management skills, especially project planning and delivery
• Experience with CRM tools will be an added advantage
• Ability to flourish in a dynamic, fast paced environment
• Ability to prioritize and balance multiple, on-going initiatives
• High energy level
• Previous sales enablement experience in a rapidly growing, successful OEM or consulting firm
• A flair for developing relationships across functions and departments as well as international borders.

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3.) M&A / Deal Origination Business Development Associate Director

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time

About the Job

• An opportunity has arisen for an Associate Director role to join a strong and formidable African Deals team on an exciting journey. We are seeking three highly motivated candidates, that will provide trusted market expertise, collaborating with member firms around the strategic Deals cycle to fulfil the deal origination mandate to source, screen, pitch, and present robust views on sector dynamics and potential investment opportunities to Clients including Private Equity, PLCs, corporates, privately owned businesses in sub-Saharan Africa and international markets seeking to enter the region.
• This is an ideal opportunity for the candidate(s) to join a growing and ambitious team as Deal Origination and Business Development specialist(s), working on a broad range of Sub-Saharan Africa and cross-border transactions including sell-side, buy-side and strategic advisory mandates.
• At KPMG, Our Values represent what we believe in and who we aspire to be. Our Values guide our behaviours day-to-day, informing how we act, the decisions we take, and how we work with each other, our clients, our communities and all our stakeholders. They bind us together, across our different backgrounds and cultures, and are common to each of us. Living Our Values is a journey that requires the collective ownership and commitment of everyone at our firm. If you would like to be part of this journey, we welcome you to explore the opportunity.
• Up to three candidates will each focus on East Africa (based in Kenya), Southern Africa (based in Johannesburg), and West Africa (based in Nigeria) and will lead each region in the origination of large Deals mandates across a range of sectors in the region, providing senior bandwidth for our Financial Services, Consumer Goods and Retail businesses.

Key Responsibilities

• Deal origination: Leading the charge on developing deal flow, using a network of relevant and high-level contacts to help originate both buy and sell-side mandates for the team, by engaging with clients to build strong relationships to understand their business, portfolio, and support with Deals strategy development
• Thought leadership and research: Provide pro-active guidance to team members on research and analysis of market dynamics, including thought leadership pieces to develop content that would support client engagements, with support from the internal Deals team
• Manage internal relationships: further leverage off KPMG’s reach and brand outside of M&A deal advisory. The reach and strength of senior relationships across the sector is a powerful tool to be harnessed
• Business development: Play a key role in pro-actively generating ideas for value creation opportunities for corporates and private equity clients across key sectors and further KPMG’s strength in the region while supporting other areas of the business with go to market and business development best practice / strategies
• Team development: Develop, coach, and motivate an experienced team. While the successful candidate(s) will have an external / origination focus, they will not be successful without further developing a more delivery focused team
• Establish a high level of credibility and manage strong working relationships with external parties including intermediaries and other advisors
• The successful candidate(s) will be central to all key decision making and will play a vital role in the continued development and success of the team and wider African Deals practice.

Requirements, skills and Attributes

• Strong academic & technical background (ACA, CFA, MBA or equivalent)
• Significant experience within M&A/Deal advisory in an investment bank, Big 4, private equity team, M&A/Investment banking boutique, or corporate development role
• A proven and demonstrable track record of materially contributing to the successful generation of competitive sell and buy-side mandates in the Deals space
• Proven track record in building, motivating and empowering teams. Experience of managing and developing high performing teams
• Personal drive to deliver results and ambition to make an impact in a growing sector team
• Commitment to high quality standards, attention to detail and motivation to deliver results within tight deadlines
• Proven credibility and market recognition as a thought leader
• Strong numerical, analytical, and strategic thinking skills and a good grasp of financial and business models
• Significant transactional experience with a demonstrable record of deal origination and/or execution across all phases of the transaction cycle from origination to completion
• Excellent communication skills with the authority and credibility to gain respect both internally and externally with people at all levels
• Personable approach, possessing the ability to create confidence and trust with colleagues and clients alike
• Entrepreneurial in outlook with a passion to succeed in a competitive market environment
• Experience in working across multi jurisdictions and prepared to travel intra continentally.

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4.) Intelligent Automation Lead (Africa)

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time

About the Job

• At KPMG, you’ll find a world of opportunity, where our people give clients and communities the insights, they need to build a sustainable future.
• This role seeks a professional with cognate experience in Intelligent Automation (IA) to help clients automate business processes using technologies such as RPA, business process management (BPM), analytics and artificial intelligence.
• This is a Pan-African role with responsibility for leading a team across the continent. The resource will be based in either Johannesburg, Nairobi, or Lagos.

Key Responsibilities
Strategy:

• Provide technical IA support to the Africa digital transformation team
• Leverage regional alliances with technology partners (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, AWS, Google, etc) to drive proactive leads generation, joint pitch, pipeline management and conversions as they relate to intelligent automation
• Work with relevant functional areas and service lines across the Firm to deliver on client engagement and sales initiatives
• Leverage local and global KPMG artefacts, SMEs, and other network assets to advance the firm’s data & analytics agenda
• Manage, coach and grow the IA team
• Participate in the development and publication of thought leadership

Client Impact:

• Develop and implement process improvement strategies that align with business objectives and deliver measurable results
• Provide leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of process improvement/ operations transformation projects
• Design robotic systems from start to finish for clients
• Develop and implement software that will control robots
• Create prototypes and work on necessary components
• Promote awareness of KPMG’s Intelligent Automation capabilities
• Identify business opportunities across Africa and develop new client relationships to expand the business and ensure a rich pipeline
• Provide subject matter expertise on IA for clients in relevant industries
• Perform integration tests and quality control
• Apply machine learning techniques to improve process outcomes
• Create complete documentation for robotic systems
• Monitor the use of robotic systems and optimize functionalities
• Troubleshoot defects in robot design and development
• Lead business development activities including targeting key C-suite, proposing services and closing opportunities
• Lead highly skilled client and KPMG work teams throughout the project lifecycle by leveraging IA approaches and frameworks and helping to ensure timely execution of project deliverables

Finance:

• Deliver on targets and goals (including sales goals)
• Provide annual budget input for the area of responsibility for approval and integration into service line/ growth area budget
• Manage the annual budget, including costs for designated area

Requirements, Skills and Attributes

• 10+ years of experience in IA spanning business process management; robotic process automation (RPA) with advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI); optical character recognition (OCR); intelligent character recognition (ICR) and process mining.
• Deep experience with creating end-to-end business processes that think, learn and adapt on their own
• Deep hands-on experience with intelligent automation frameworks and services available on Platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP
• Deep knowledge of AI programming languages and frameworks such as Python, Java, etc
• Proven experience with RPA tools such as UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, Power Automate, etc
• Proven experience with low code and no-code platforms
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a team of engineers and consultants.
• Demonstrated experience developing relationships with senior clients in a professional services environment
• Being a self-starter and able to work independently including across multiple priorities and complex matrixed roles and responsibilities
• Confident, tactful and able to effectively influence others and deal effectively with senior leaders
• Proven track record of delivering results and exceeding client expectations within a variety of industries
• Good knowledge of supply chain, demand planning and replenishment, forecasting, scheduling, inventory optimization and working capital
• Knowledge of cost, efficiency, and productivity optimization methods
• Ability to develop and evaluate integrated systems
• Strong communicator, including listening skills with an ability to translate insights across business and technology teams and to develop and present new ideas and conceptualize new approaches and solutions
• Strong team and work ethic, comfortable with ambiguity, change and challenge

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5.) Cloud Security Lead (Africa)

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time

About the Job

• At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: to turn insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world.
• As the Cloud Security Lead, you will lead a team to provide technical guidance to customers adopting Cloud services.
• You will provide best practices on secure foundational cloud implementations, automated provisioning of infrastructure and applications, cloud-ready application architectures, and more.
• You will assist customers in migrating, building, modernizing, and maintaining applications in the Cloud.
• This role seeks an experienced professional who will be responsible for helping our clients secure their cloud workloads and infrastructure and ensure adherence to compliance requirements.
• This is a Pan-African role with responsibility for leading a team across the continent. The resource will be based in either Johannesburg, Nairobi, or Lagos.

Key Responsibilities
Strategy:

• Provide support to the Africa region around cloud security initiatives
• Manage, expand, and scale a team of security architects and engineers
• Participate in the development and publication of thought leadership
• Leverage local and global KPMG artefacts, SMEs, and other network assets to advance the firm’s platform agenda
• Leverage regional alliances with technology partners (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, AWS, Google, etc) to drive proactive leads generation, joint pitch, pipeline management and conversions where required
• Provide domain expertise in cloud security and compliance and be a trusted technical advisor to customers. Solve cloud security and compliance challenges
• Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of business and technical stakeholders

Client Impact:

• Manage disparate executive stakeholders within customer environments to deliver consensus and lead positive customer outcomes
• Review and advise on best practices for security policies, procedures, and standards developed for client’s cloud infrastructure
• Provide subject matter expertise on security best practices and industry standards to the client’s technical teams
• Work with customers to design and develop cloud security architectures and solutions to meet and exceed their security requirements, through discussions, strategic presentations or recommendations, and implementation in Cloud environment.
• Stay up to date with the latest cloud security threats, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures

Finance:

• Deliver on targets and goals (including sales goals)
• Provide annual budget input for the area of responsibility for approval and integration into service line/ growth area budget
• Manage the annual budget, including costs for designated area

Requirements, Skills and Attributes

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or any other relevant field
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in cloud security or related security roles
• Strong technical knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience in recruiting and managing a team of experienced engineers on projects.
• Strong knowledge of network security concepts such as firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDPS), and virtual private networks (VPNs).
• Expertise in security incident response, including incident detection, analysis, containment, and recovery
• Expertise in cloud security tools such as CloudTrail, CloudWatch, Security Hub, GuardDuty, and Azure Security Center
• Experience in technical consulting and working with cross-functional teams and customers.
• Experience in Cloud Security delivered within the context of internal or customer facing roles
• Strong knowledge of cloud security best practices and industry standards.
• Confident, tactful, and able to effectively influence others and deal effectively with senior leaders
• Critical thinking, presentation and analytical skills will be an advantage
• Familiarity with security testing tools and techniques such as vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and threat modeling
• Experience with security information and event management (SIEM) systems, especially within the context of monitoring cloud environments.
• Knowledge of authentication and authorization mechanisms such as OAuth, SAML, and LDAP.
• Experience with security compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, relevant data privacy regulations, PCI-DSS etc
• Knowledge of container security and experience with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience leading cloud security projects and managing security teams.
• Strong communicator, including listening skills with an ability to translate insights across business and technology teams and to develop and present new ideas and conceptualize new approaches and solutions
• Strong team and work ethic, comfortable with ambiguity, change and challenge

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6.) Intelligent Automation Lead (Africa)

Job Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time

About the Job

• At KPMG, you’ll find a world of opportunity, where our people give clients and communities the insights, they need to build a sustainable future.
• This role seeks a professional with cognate experience in Intelligent Automation (IA) to help clients automate business processes using technologies such as RPA, business process management (BPM), analytics and artificial intelligence.
• This is a Pan-African role with responsibility for leading a team across the continent. The resource will be based in either Johannesburg, Nairobi, or Lagos.

Key Responsibilities
Strategy:

• Provide technical IA support to the Africa digital transformation team
• Leverage regional alliances with technology partners (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, AWS, Google, etc) to drive proactive leads generation, joint pitch, pipeline management and conversions as they relate to intelligent automation
• Work with relevant functional areas and service lines across the Firm to deliver on client engagement and sales initiatives
• Leverage local and global KPMG artefacts, SMEs, and other network assets to advance the firm’s data & analytics agenda
• Manage, coach and grow the IA team
• Participate in the development and publication of thought leadership

Client Impact:

• Develop and implement process improvement strategies that align with business objectives and deliver measurable results
• Provide leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of process improvement/ operations transformation projects
• Design robotic systems from start to finish for clients
• Develop and implement software that will control robots
• Create prototypes and work on necessary components
• Perform integration tests and quality control
• Promote awareness of KPMG’s Intelligent Automation capabilities
• Identify business opportunities across Africa and develop new client relationships to expand the business and ensure a rich pipeline
• Provide subject matter expertise on IA for clients in relevant industries
• Apply machine learning techniques to improve process outcomes
• Create complete documentation for robotic systems
• Monitor the use of robotic systems and optimize functionalities
• Troubleshoot defects in robot design and development
• Lead business development activities including targeting key C-suite, proposing services and closing opportunities
• Lead highly skilled client and KPMG work teams throughout the project lifecycle by leveraging IA approaches and frameworks and helping to ensure timely execution of project deliverables

Finance:

• Deliver on targets and goals (including sales goals)
• Provide annual budget input for the area of responsibility for approval and integration into service line/ growth area budget
• Manage the annual budget, including costs for designated area

Requirements, Skills and Attributes

• 10+ years of experience in IA spanning business process management; robotic process automation (RPA) with advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI); optical character recognition (OCR); intelligent character recognition (ICR) and process mining.
• Deep experience with creating end-to-end business processes that think, learn and adapt on their own
• Proven track record of delivering results and exceeding client expectations within a variety of industries
• Good knowledge of supply chain, demand planning and replenishment, forecasting, scheduling, inventory optimization and working capital
• Knowledge of cost, efficiency, and productivity optimization methods
• Ability to develop and evaluate integrated systems
• Demonstrated experience developing relationships with senior clients in a professional services environment
• Being a self-starter and able to work independently including across multiple priorities and complex matrixed roles and responsibilities
• Deep hands-on experience with intelligent automation frameworks and services available on Platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP
• Deep knowledge of AI programming languages and frameworks such as Python, Java, etc
• Proven experience with RPA tools such as UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere, Power Automate, etc
• Proven experience with low code and no-code platforms
• Demonstrated ability to lead and manage a team of engineers and consultants.
• Confident, tactful and able to effectively influence others and deal effectively with senior leaders
• Strong communicator, including listening skills with an ability to translate insights across business and technology teams and to develop and present new ideas and conceptualize new approaches and solutions
• Strong team and work ethic, comfortable with ambiguity, change and challenge

Click here to apply online