Manager

TBC

Overview – KPMG Saudi Levant Cluster

KPMG has grown to become one of the largest professional service providers in the Saudi Levant Cluster having three lines of services: audit, tax, and advisory. Currently, KPMG’s Saudi Levant Cluster workforce is over 2,000. With ambitious growth objectives, we are continuously looking for talent various functions and levels.

KPMG operates through an experienced leadership with dedicated regional teams, which enables our network of professional talent, our technologies and our products and solutions to quickly come together to meet clients’ needs. Our company’s vision is to be recognized as a truly transformed firm, trusted by our people, our clients, and our society.

We value the fresh perspective that experienced professionals can bring. Whether you are currently working in industry, the public sector, a smaller firm, or another 'Big Four' organization, you can expect to make a difference from day one.

Overview – Digital Lighthouse

Data & Analytics is changing the way businesses, and our clients operate. It has fast become a driver of growth, opportunity, and market differentiation. As part of our ambition to maintain our globally recognized position as a leader in Data & Analytics, KPMG established a Global Center of Excellence for data-driven technologies, the “Digital Lighthouse”.

Within the Lighthouse we provide strategic, organizational, and technical advisory work for our clients that allows them to exploit their information and maximize value from data assets. We are structured to provide services covering the following four “solutions”:

• Data Transformation
• Low-Code & Automation
• Advanced Analytics & AI
• Innovation & Emerging Technologies
  
  

We are looking to hire an experienced Manager, based in Riyadh, with a proven track record, at a leading consulting firm, of delivering data & analytics engagements across some/all these disciplines.

Job Summary:

This role is a fantastic opportunity to be at the Center of KPMG’s rapidly growing Advanced Analytics & AI capability in the Middle East region, to help grow our team and capabilities, shape how we go to market, and grow our pipeline of client projects.

The successful candidate will take a lead role in delivering our Data and Analytics projects, leveraging data, statistical and advanced analytical techniques to provide new insights into business performance issues for clients and recommending the best technologies to help them leverage their data more effectively.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Manage projects and workstreams on complex data & analytics programmes from strategy to execution.
• Support senior client stakeholders (CFO, CDO, CIO) to cultivate relationships as a trusted partner, through articulating and realising the value of data.
• Identify, scope and develop data, analytics and automation opportunities with clients, and support the creation of RFP responses.
• Develop client solutions across the creation to consumption data lifecycle (data sourcing, management, quality, reporting & analytics)
• Manage and monitor engagement financials, profitability metrics and ensure invoices are billed to the client appropriately.
• Manage the production of thought leadership on Data Management, Master Data Management, Meta Data Management, Reporting or Analytics
• Build data frameworks, accelerators, and points of view to support sales and solve key client issues.
• Leverage their understanding of key technology vendors in the marketplace to deliver engagements.
• Develop our people through coaching, mentoring, and creating an inclusive working environment.
• Use their people management experience to lead combined project teams of client and KPMG data analytics professionals and develop knowledge in the KPMG team.
  
  

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of data & analytics experience with a professional services firm, an internal strategy/analytics group, or similar environment
• Master’s or bachelor’s degree in a technical or economic field with working knowledge of topics such as data modelling, information management, machine learning, and cloud computing
• Demonstrated ability to manage client engagements and interface with senior-level clients, coupled with significant project management, client handling, and communication capabilities.
• Demonstrable experience of complex data projects covering the full creation to consumption data lifecycle (data sourcing, management, quality, reporting & analytics).
• An SME in Advanced Analytics or AI.
• Functional knowledge and point of view around key tools within the Data Management or Analytics market
• Developing and/or delivering an Analytics/Data Management Roadmap
• Designing an appropriate target state for client data functions based on their vision and current state issues.
• Analysis of data, identifying insights and providing hypotheses
• Understanding the delivery of data projects through a standard or alternative project lifecycle
• Broad, versatile knowledge of analytics and data science landscape, combined with strong business consulting acumen, enabling the identification, design, and deployment of optimal D&A solutions to meet clients’ business objectives and business constraints.
• Experience in analysis of data, identifying insights and providing hypotheses.
• Understanding of market trends, new technologies and how they impact companies and society (e.g. Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning…)
• Ideally fluent in both English and Arabic and confident to lead delivery of client engagements, and production of deliverables, in both languages.
  
  

What we Offer:

KPMG supports equal opportunities for all prospected candidates. We commit to provide personal and professional development for all our employees. We operate in a friendly supportive environment. We respect each other and draw strength from our differences. We prioritize the employee well-being by adapting Pioneer ways for work live balance.