GQ&RM Risk Audit Senior Manager; Sustainability components

Job description

Together with more than 276,000 colleagues in 138 countries throughout our member firms, people at KPMG imagine big ideas and bring solutions to life for clients both big and small. A role with KPMG International will open a world of opportunity in your career.

KPMG International helps set the strategy and protects the reputation of this global organization of independent professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We deliver value to our member firms and drive positive change in the communities we serve. By joining us you will gain a unique understanding of how a global organization operates and work on projects that impact the whole organization.

From setting standards and best practices to developing innovative tech‑enabled solutions for clients, you’ll be part of a global team changing the way our business operates. We look forward to welcoming you to our team.

Global Quality & Risk Management (GQ&R) helps protect the KPMG brand and reputation by dealing with live issues and learning quickly from challenges across the network. GQ&R develops globally consistent quality and risk management policies to enable the business to make smart, agile decisions, and we monitor compliance and the quality of delivery across all three functions.

GQ&R is comprised of a number of high‑performing teams, including:
Advisory Risk, Audit Risk, Tax & Legal Risk, Digital Risk, Risk Assessment, Monitoring and Reporting, Policy, Independence, Ethics, Business Operations, Transformation and Operations. Working together, our global team is delivering value to our member firms and functions, and driving our ambition to become the most trusted and trustworthy professional services firm.

The Global Quality & Risk Management - Audit (GQ&R Audit) team is responsible for the development of an effective risk management framework for global audit in order to support the KPMG Trust and Growth strategy and ambition to be the most trusted and the most trustworthy firm. This includes identification of significant risks; improving processes and controls to protect against those risks;

ensuring we have a strong and effective monitoring program designed to detect risks (including QPR); leading an effective response to emerging risk matters; and maintaining a process in place to recover from such matters, including learnings from root cause analysis. In addition, the team has formal reporting responsibilities to key stakeholders, including Global Board sub‑committees and regulators.

• The Global Quality and Risk Management Steering Group (GQ&RMSG), and in particular the Regional Risk Management Partners
• The Global Audit Leadership Team (GALT) and the Global Audit Steering Group (GASG)
• GASG Member firms Head of Audit Risk
• The Global Audit Quality Council
• IOGC

The role is responsible for driving strategic risk initiatives aligned to the global audit strategy and managing global risk processes. The role comprises a combination of leading and supporting on significant ad‑hoc project work as well as developing and oversight of operational risk management processes and reporting. The nature of the work is high profile and will provide opportunities to interact with senior levels of leadership in the global firm.

The role reports to the Head of GQ&R Audit.

• Represent GQRM Audit team on global initiatives, focused on a diverse range of areas, e.g., AI and more. Provide risk management insights and support to senior stakeholders at global, regional and member firm levels.
• A key aspect of the role is to provide risk management input to the sustainability Assurance program and initiatives. This includes supporting the ongoing evolution of the existing globally consistent and robust risk management framework for Sustainability Assurance engagements, the number of which is expected to grow significantly in demand and complexity. The role will also coordinate with various stakeholders across the network to ensure alignment and compliance with Sustainability Assurance methodologies, policies, and…