Governance, Risk and Compliance Services - Assistant Manager

About the team Our Advisory capability brings our Consulting and Deal Advisory businesses together as one team, combining our expertise and talent. We solve business challenges, helping our clients to realise their growth ambitions, from strategy to transaction and through to transformation.

The role sits within our nationally based Sectors GRCS practice. The team works across consumer and retail, manufacturing, energy and natural resources, technology, media and telecommunications, and life sciences, helping clients respond to established and emerging governance, risk and compliance priorities.

About the role

As an Assistant Manager, you will play a key role in delivering governance, risk and internal audit engagements across several markets. You will adapt to a changing risk landscape and respond to client needs in areas including ESG, operational resilience and third-party risk management.

You will also contribute to a variety of engagements and help develop key propositions for the practice.

What you'll be doing

Support managers and senior managers with the day-to-day delivery of a portfolio of internal audit, governance, risk and control engagements, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) framework design and controls testing, and External Quality Assessments.

Identify and clearly communicate findings arising from testing to senior colleagues within KPMG and to client stakeholders. Identify practical opportunities to improve client performance, business operations and control environments.

Work with managers and senior managers to develop innovative, market-leading solutions and proposals. Supervise, coach and review the work of associates and interns on assigned engagements. Collaborate with firm-wide subject-matter specialists to provide assurance on emerging risk areas.

Skills, knowledge and experience you'll need: Relevant experience in internal or external audit, internal controls, risk assessment and management, regulatory compliance or governance, gained in a leading organisation or consulting environment.

Strong leadership and communication skills, with the technical knowledge and writing ability to present publication-quality findings and recommendations to senior client stakeholders. Ability to identify observations and recommendations relating to business operations and control issues across financial reporting, regulatory and operational risk disciplines.

Experience managing internal and external stakeholders, including management-level colleagues, and building strong, lasting relationships. Strong organisation and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage your own work and support others to meet project requirements, using sound project management principles.

A track record of delivering high-quality outputs on time and meeting or exceeding expectations, combined with active listening, teamwork and a willingness to develop new skills and capabilities. Strong Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word skills.

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