Manager/ Senior Consultant - Risk Strategy & Technology

KPMG Risk Strategy & Technology – Who are we?

KPMG Risk Strategy & Technology is a specialist Consulting Team dedicated to helping clients achieve commercial outcomes by viewing risk management as a lever for enhanced innovation, reputation and sustainable growth. Our areas of expertise include:

• Risk Strategy - understanding risk capacity to inform strategic direction and decision-making
• Governance, Risk Culture and Conduct 

We work with Tier 1 Organisations in Australia and globally across Financial Services, Infrastructure, Health, FMCG, Retail, Logistics, Technology, Energy and Defence. Due to the ongoing demand from our clients, our service line continues to enjoy healthy growth and spotlight year on year. Our diversity in both background and identity including accountants, lawyers, management consultants and business professionals from varying ethnicities, genders, beliefs and orientations.

Common Questions we Solve:

How is data used to inform better risk decisions?

Are there early warning systems in place to alert the Board and Senior Management to emerging risks?

Is there integration and alignment of risk management with strategic planning and capital allocation?

How does Board and Management know that the intended risk culture is understood and reflected in how employees behave?

Your Opportunity – Senior Consultant

As a Senior Consultant you’ll play a lead role in execution and delivery of a wide array of risk advisory projects. You’ll be consulting with clients reviewing their operating models function across the Three Lines of Defence. You will be encouraged to develop innovative and creative solutions to solve client problems and bring efficiency to the way we analyse information. Applying your experience, you will lead and mentor junior team members on a day-to-day basis. You’ll be joining an elite team of diverse risk professionals in a highly collaborative environment where the goal will be to deliver competitive advantage for businesses by improving their risk management functions. As a Senior Consultant your day to day may look like this.

• Reviewing risks with associated processes, controls, frameworks and functions including gap analysis, design, operation and outputs.
• Researching external risk factors impacting client’s strategies or for benchmarking risk practice.
• Help to track and measure effectiveness of controls, ensuring they are robust and operationally effective.
• Utilising your knowledge of operational and compliance risks executing targeted project work to mitigate risk.
• Documentation and reporting of control gaps, undocumented controls and highlighting potential high-risk areas.
• Developing strong relationships with clients and stakeholders, identifying opportunities for future business.

Your Opportunity – Manager

As a Manager within the Risk Strategy & Technology team you’ll be responsible for the day to day running of client engagements, playing a project-management like role in delivery of engagements. You’ll be the SME and point of contact for general enquiries and escalations, stepping in where required to gather more information or provide guidance as an Experienced Risk Professional.

Internally you’ll be working with the leadership group to ensure that delivery is optimised, commercial targets are on track and resourcing is adequately addressed. On the client-side you’ll be involved in review presentations, day to day reports and may have the responsibility of managing a team. As a Manager your day to day may look like this.

• Reviewing risks with associated processes, controls, frameworks and functions including gap analysis, design, operation and outputs.
• Partnering with control owners to deliver targeted projects which uplift quality of risk and control matrices.
• Help to track and measure effectiveness of controls, ensuring they are robust and operationally effective.
• Utilising your knowledge of operational and compliance risks executing targeted project work to mitigate risk.
• Documentation and reporting of control gaps, undocumented controls and highlighting potential high-risk areas.
• Managing internal team budgets, deliverables and engagements.
• Coaching Senior Leadership on best practice risk management methodology while driving a culture of high performance and ethical business practices.
• Presenting findings and reports to Senior Leadership both client-facing and internal.
• Identifying opportunities for business development and revenue generation.
• Building strong relationships with clients, ensuring that service deliverables are being met and exceeded where possible.

Key Requirements

• Relevant tertiary qualifications ideally having or working towards a CA/CPA/CIA equivalent post-tertiary qualification is advantageous.
• Must have a logical / structured understanding of risk management through operational and enterprise risk lenses.
• Effective communication skills both verbal and written, able to articulate examples of dealing with difficult stakeholders, problem solving, process improvements.
• High level of organisation and ability to manage conflicting deadlines, priorities and wide variety of work engagements.
• Ability to quickly build strong relationships and network with a variety of stakeholders both internal and external.