Senior Manager

**JOB DESCRIPTION

About KPMG in India**

KPMG entities in India are professional services firm(s). These Indian member firms are affiliated with KPMG International Limited. KPMG was established in India in August 1993. Our professionals leverage the global network of firms, and are conversant with local laws, regulations, markets and competition. KPMG has offices across India in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gurugram, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Noida, Pune, Vadodara and Vijayawada.

KPMG entities in India offer services to national and international clients in India across sectors. We strive to provide rapid, performance-based, industry-focused and technology-enabled services, which reflect a shared knowledge of global and local industries and our experience of the Indian business environment.

Job Title: Manager/Senior Manager – Finance Transformation

Location: Gurgaon/ Bangalore/ Mumbai

Service line: Business Consulting

Finance transformation (FT) – An overview

The finance function needs to be aligned to business strategy, and provide financial analysis and insight to support corporate decision making, while also meeting legal and regulatory requirements as a given. With a global network of professionals, FT is able to bring the right people, with the right skills, to the right place at the right time to assist helping organizations to become leaders in finance. Aimed at helping to maximize the finance function's performance and increase its value to the business, KPMG provides a range of Financial Management services under our four service networks:

Efficient Finance Operations - An efficient finance function helps identify and deliver specific improvements in the area of processes and performance in order to unlock value and resources thus freeing up time for improved decision support activities. It is founded on a robust platform of integrated operational/transactional finance activities.

Effective Decision Support - This service network helps clients deliver a fit-for-purpose to assess and track the performance and meet information needs of the organization. It also helps the client to deliver performance management framework in order to help the business to make better decisions basis data analytics, cost management and allocate scare resources

Finance Strategy and Transformation - Finance Strategy and Transformation helps a client to define the business partnering role for finance in driving the strategic business imperatives. It helps the CFO to clearly articulate its Finance vision and strategy, analyze the performance of the finance function and develop a future state operating model that is fit for purpose.

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key Roles & Responsibilities
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Play the role of being a team member in engagements and work with team lead to successfully deliver the engagements
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Demonstrate technical capabilities and professional knowledge on engagements
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Manage day-to-day interaction and work closely with senior client personnel for delivering engagements
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Meet stringent timeline with quality of engagement delivery through thorough and meticulous planning and execution of the tasks assigned
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Plan out work for oneself and reporting team members where relevant
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Monitor progress of work against the engagement plan and keep seniors updated
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Prepare the required deliverables in the format agreed with the Engagement Manager / Partner and client
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Maintain documentation as required KPMG quality standards
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Organize/ participate in team meetings and contribute ideas relating to the engagements
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Assist and / or lead in building proposals and bid related documents
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Work in a dynamic business environment and willing to adapt to different industries on a continuous basis
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Remain current on developments in the economy – specifically in areas of finance and costing
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Conduct research, read thought leadership and knowledge repositories on a regular basis to deliver as per engagement requirements
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Ensure compliance with KPMG policies and procedures

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THE INDIVIDUAL

To be part of the team, the individual should possess
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Preferably MBA in Finance or Chartered Accountant or Cost accountant
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Minimum experience of 9+ years
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Strong understanding and experience of working in the area of costing is a must. Demonstrated experience in some or all of the following areas is desirable - Product (or services) costing, activity based costing, dimensional costing, activity based management, inter organizational cost management
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Experience of working (as a process owner or process designer) on costing module for various ERPs (e.g. COPA in SAP, etc.). Also he / she should have experience of working on ERPs and financial reporting applications (knowledge of Oracle/SAP/Hyperion/BPC)
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Certification in costing related IT modules will be an added advantage
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Strong finance domain and function knowledge as well as understanding and experience of key business processes in a corporate environment.
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Understanding and experience of working with innovative technology e.g. RPA, AI, niche tools (Board, Anaplan, etc.), etc. would be an added advantage
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Knowledge of MS office (MS Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.) is must
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Strong written and verbal communication skills including presentation skill
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Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Possess strong data analytics skills and knowledge of advanced data analytical tools will be an advantage
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Demonstrate integrity, values, principles and strong work ethic
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Have the ability to work under pressure – stringent deadlines and tough client conditions which may demand extended working hours
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Willingness to travel within India or abroad for continuous short or long periods of time, as required by the project

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