Manager - IGH Finance Transformation

Job Title

Finance Transformation Manager – Local Government

London, Canary Wharf, Watford or Birmingham

• Manage small to medium engagement teams, including internal KPMG and external client members.
• Organize work packages, oversee data gathering and analysis, summarize insights, and facilitate workshops to deliver on KPMG’s scope of work for a programme.
• Supervise, coach, and review the work performed by peers and colleagues.
• Build and leverage internal and external relationships to support senior colleagues in developing sales opportunities for the firm.
• Maintain relationships with key client stakeholders and collaborate with them to co‑deliver a programme.
• Support senior colleagues in developing market‑leading materials, external blogs, and points of view, representing KPMG at external events.
• Support internal operational responsibilities for the finance transformation team including revenue planning, resourcing, recruitment, wider team development, and community building.

• Extensive experience in the finance function gained from within a major Local Government organisation or client‑facing audit or consulting experience at a professional services firm, with clients from within this sector.
• Proven ability to lead teams across finance improvement projects in the finance function of a major Local Authority.
• Fully qualified in a relevant finance qualification – ACA, CIMA, ACCA, CIPFA or equivalent.
• Strong grasp of finance function operating models, including systems, data, processes, controls and governance.
• Ability to articulate the challenges currently facing finance functions, including the future of the finance function and nascent technology.
• Excellent communicator with personal skills to build strong and lasting internal and client relationships and ability to deliver clear, concise, focused messages to senior finance team members or clients.
• Knowledge of how finance processes are enabled within a finance systems landscape, with a focus on one of the major ERP technologies:
  Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle, Work Day.

• Prior client‑facing consulting or audit experience gained from a major Consultancy or Professional Services organisation.
• Experience of finance transformation as part of a major Local Government Restructuring (LGR).

• London – Canary Wharf
• Birmingham
• Watford

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