People & Change – Manager at KPMG | May 2024

Position Summary
KPMG People & Change wish to recruit a Manager to analyze clients’ needs, develop strategies, and lead a team to deliver tailored HR solutions, ensuring compliance to KPMG policies and professional Standards.

Key roles and responsibilities

The Manager will have the following responsibilities:

• Manages engagements or projects to consistently achieve specific revenue and profit objectives and deliver designated engagement deliverables. 
• Maintain a progress tracker of engagement milestones, tasks and deliverables. 
• Plan and manage client engagement risk and project budget. 
• Identify and escalate key client challenges to assess best possible intervention. 
• Provide technical knowledge, direction and training to the engagement team to produce quality deliverables. 
• Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders/ clients. 
• Contribute to proposal development efforts by driving market initiatives through involvement with relevant markets team. 
• Manage client relationships through cross selling by knowing and sharing valuable client information. 
• Provide timely and objective feedback to teams on task performance. 
• Build industry knowledge through involvement in events, articles and thought leadership. 
• Ensure compliance to policies, standards and procedures. 
• Ensure delivery teams are appropriately supervised, coached and supported to ensure no write offs. 
• Any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.
   

Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:

• Master’s degree in Human Resources 
• Bachelor’s degree qualification in humanities or any other related field. 
• Membership of a relevant professional bodies such as CIPD, IHRM. 
• Minimum 8 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 & 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 

If your career aspirations match this exciting opportunity, please use the link below to apply:

People & Change Manager – Candidate’s Summary. Filling the link is mandatory for consideration alongside your application to talentrecruit@kpmg.co.ke quoting ‘P&C – Manager’ by 02 June 2024.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.