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.
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.
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.