Position Summary
KPMG
People & Change wish to recruit a Senior Associate to assist in analyzing
client needs, developing strategies, and delivering HR solutions, ensuring
compliance to KPMG policies and professional Standards.
Key roles and responsibilities
The Senior Associate will have the following responsibilities:
- Participate in the development of a work
plan, budget and quality plan to ensure efficiency, high performance and
high quality work on engagements.
- Maintain a progress tracker of engagement
milestones, tasks and deliverables.
- Schedule and conduct engagement (internal
and client) kick-off, progress and close out meetings.
- Keep all engagement stakeholders updated
on progress.
- Ensure financial closure of all
engagements.
- Ensure engagement files are
compliant.
- Lead and participate in the preparation
of proposals, bids, quotations, etc. and including pitching for
jobs.
- Manage revenue, maintain a cross-selling
value, meet individual revenue targets and ensure proper billing of
clients.
- Supervise staff on engagements including
leading, coaching, training, directing and reviewing work products of team
members who may include Seniors, Associates, etc. and as necessary.
- Build industry knowledge through
involvement in events, articles and thought leadership.
- Ensure all pre-engagement risk
activities, including at the proposal stage, are undertaken and signed
off.
- Any other duties and responsibilities as
may be assigned from time to time.
Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree qualification in
humanities or any other related field.
- Master’s degree in Human Resources is an
added advantage.
- Membership of a relevant professional
bodies such as CIPD, IHRM.
- Minimum 5 years of experience in human
resource consulting.
- Experience in managing HR engagements, e
.g., organization structure review, workload analysis, change management
etc.. In East Africa.
Technical competencies and
Personal attributes:
- Strong consulting skills. Be able to
effectively support all aspects of engagement delivery, end-to-end, with
minimal supervision and high accountability.
- Strong analytical & problem-solving
skills, with the ability to proactively engage and consult with others
across all levels.
- Good communication skills (written and
verbal).
- Ability to organize and prioritize
workload to meet deadlines.
- Strong business writing, report writing,
presentation and research skills.
- A high standard of integrity.
- A high aptitude for learning new
approaches and innovation.
- Self-driven and results-oriented.
- Team player with good people management,
work organization and coordination skills. ▪ Networking and stakeholder
management skills.
- Training/ facilitation skills.
- Diligent and committed to
excellence.
- Excellent coordination and planning
skills.
- Resilience and Tenacity: must be able to
always sustain motivation and commitment and can contain and absorb
stressful moments and issues.
- Willingness to travel within and outside
the region on a need basis.
We offer:
- An exciting opportunity to work with a
Big 4 firm on cutting edge clients across Africa.
- Continuous learning and
development.
- Exposure to multi-disciplinary client
service teams.
- Unrivalled space to grow and be
innovative.
How To Apply
if
your career aspirations match this exciting opportunity, please use the link
below to apply:Filling the link is mandatory for consideration alongside your
application to talentrecruit@kpmg.co.ke quoting
the job title
