Company Info
KPMG is a worldwide network of independent professional services companies with in-depth knowledge in offering audit, tax, and advisory services to customers across a range of markets and economic sectors. With the aim of providing excellent and top-notch services to international, regional, and local clients as well as enhancing product offerings in certain previously under-served markets, the Firm is well-represented in Nigeria and throughout the African continent.
1). DevOps Engineering Lead (Africa)
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
Description and Purpose of the Job
- At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: to turn insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world.
- We seek a professional with broad cloud engineering experience to help clients architect and automate software development leveraging cloud platforms and technologies.
- This is a Pan Africa role with responsibility for leading a team across the continent. This resource will be based in either Joburg, Nairobi or Lagos.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy:
- Provide DevOps and Cloud engineering support to the Africa digital transformation team
- Leverage local and global KPMG artefacts, SMEs, and other network assets to shape a compelling and pragmatic strategy
- Leverage regional alliances with technology partners (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, AWS, Google, etc) to drive proactive leads generation, joint pitch, pipeline management and conversions where required
- Manage, coach and grow the DevOps and Cloud engineering team
- Lead key business development activities for advisory products including targeting key C- level clients, proposing services and closing opportunities
- Ensure service teams are buoyant and properly resourced
- Build strong relationships with CTOs and be the trusted Cloud and DevOps advisor
- Ensure all teams are complying with both client and firm regulatory and security controls and can feed these ways of working back to the community
Client Impact:
- Work with clients to architect products, platforms and solutions that are performant, scalable and extensible
- Provide subject matter expertise to clients across Africa on cloud-related subjects
- Develop and implement effective cloud strategies for clients across Africa
- Drive business growth across Africa through new business development and expansion of existing client accounts
- Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure we provide clients with the latest and most effective solutions
- Work closely with clients to understand business needs and develop tailored solutions
- Develop practice through thought leadership and training
Finance:
- Deliver on targets and goals (including sales goals)
- Provide annual budget input for the area of responsibility for approval and integration into service line/ growth area budget
- Manage the annual budget, including costs for designated area
Qualification, Experience and Skills
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or any other relevant field
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in infrastructure, cloud, and DevOps engineering roles with demonstrable knowledge of cloud technologies
- Well-grounded experience leading and delivering large software, infrastructure, and cloud transformational projects
- Expertise in the design, implementation, and maintenance of cloud infrastructure and services.
- Extensive hands-on experience with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure and/or GCP
- Proven experience in software development or scripting languages such as Python/Go/PowerShell/Nodejs/C# or equivalent
- Solid CI/CD pipelining skills and experience using any of Octopus/TeamCity/Jenkins/Azure DevOps or equivalent
- Proven experience on performance tuning, troubleshooting and resolution of issues that may arise in production
Skills and attributes required for the role:
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems
- Automate the provisioning, scaling, and management of cloud resources using tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation
- Deep experience with Container orchestration tools, such as Kubernetes or Docker swarm
- Pre-sales experience with OEMs or consulting experience will be an added advantage
- Being a self-starter and able to work independently including across multiple priorities and complex matrixed roles and responsibilities
- Confident, tactful and able to effectively influence others and deal effectively with senior leaders
- Critical thinking, presentation and analytical skills will be an advantage
- Strong communicator, including listening skills with an ability to translate insights across business and technology teams and to develop and present new ideas and conceptualize new approaches and solutions
- Strong team and work ethic, comfortable with ambiguity, change and challenge
- Extensive experience managing large or multiple teams of engineers
- Ability to have deep technical level discussions with engineers, to explain the business benefits of a range of technologies to non-technical partners and clients
- Have a keen eye for opportunity
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship skills at C-suite level both internally and client facing
- Ability to operate in a highly context switching environment for not only different clients but different business sectors and different technologies
- Product focused, build once and reuse
- Take responsibility for own code
- Proven experience working in an agile environment
- Ability to empower teams to continuously learn, work independently, and make decisions with minimal input
- Be the Cloud and DevOps advocate to a wider audience inside and outside of the business
- Curiosity – Bring fresh ideas to the team and wider firm
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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2). M&A/Deal Origination Business Development Associate Director
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
About the Job
- An opportunity has arisen for an Associate Director role to join a strong and formidable African Deals team on an exciting journey. We are seeking three highly motivated candidates, that will provide trusted market expertise, collaborating with member firms around the strategic Deals cycle to fulfil the deal origination mandate to source, screen, pitch, and present robust views on sector dynamics and potential investment opportunities to Clients including Private Equity, PLCs, corporates, privately owned businesses in sub-Saharan Africa and international markets seeking to enter the region.
- This is an ideal opportunity for the candidate(s) to join a growing and ambitious team as Deal Origination and Business Development specialist(s), working on a broad range of Sub-Saharan Africa and cross-border transactions including sell-side, buy-side and strategic advisory mandates.
- At KPMG, Our Values represent what we believe in and who we aspire to be. Our Values guide our behaviours day-to-day, informing how we act, the decisions we take, and how we work with each other, our clients, our communities and all our stakeholders. They bind us together, across our different backgrounds and cultures, and are common to each of us. Living Our Values is a journey that requires the collective ownership and commitment of everyone at our firm. If you would like to be part of this journey, we welcome you to explore the opportunity.
- Up to three candidates will each focus on East Africa (based in Kenya), Southern Africa (based in Johannesburg), and West Africa (based in Nigeria) and will lead each region in the origination of large Deals mandates across a range of sectors in the region, providing senior bandwidth for our Financial Services, Consumer Goods and Retail businesses.
Key Responsibilities
- Deal origination: Leading the charge on developing deal flow, using a network of relevant and high-level contacts to help originate both buy and sell-side mandates for the team, by engaging with clients to build strong relationships to understand their business, portfolio, and support with Deals strategy development
- Business development: Play a key role in pro-actively generating ideas for value creation opportunities for corporates and private equity clients across key sectors and further KPMG’s strength in the region while supporting other areas of the business with go to market and business development best practice / strategies
- Thought leadership and research: Provide pro-active guidance to team members on research and analysis of market dynamics, including thought leadership pieces to develop content that would support client engagements, with support from the internal Deals team
- Manage internal relationships: further leverage off KPMG’s reach and brand outside of M&A deal advisory. The reach and strength of senior relationships across the sector is a powerful tool to be harnessed
- Team development: Develop, coach, and motivate an experienced team. While the successful candidate(s) will have an external / origination focus, they will not be successful without further developing a more delivery focused team
- Establish a high level of credibility and manage strong working relationships with external parties including intermediaries and other advisors
- The successful candidate(s) will be central to all key decision making and will play a vital role in the continued development and success of the team and wider African Deals practice.
Requirements, skills and Attributes
- Strong academic & technical background (ACA, CFA, MBA or equivalent)
- Significant experience within M&A/Deal advisory in an investment bank, Big 4, private equity team, M&A/Investment banking boutique, or corporate development role
- A proven and demonstrable track record of materially contributing to the successful generation of competitive sell and buy-side mandates in the Deals space
- Strong numerical, analytical, and strategic thinking skills and a good grasp of financial and business models
- Significant transactional experience with a demonstrable record of deal origination and/or execution across all phases of the transaction cycle from origination to completion
- Excellent communication skills with the authority and credibility to gain respect both internally and externally with people at all levels
- Proven track record in building, motivating and empowering teams. Experience of managing and developing high performing teams
- Personal drive to deliver results and ambition to make an impact in a growing sector team
- Commitment to high quality standards, attention to detail and motivation to deliver results within tight deadlines
- Proven credibility and market recognition as a thought leader
- Personable approach, possessing the ability to create confidence and trust with colleagues and clients alike
- Entrepreneurial in outlook with a passion to succeed in a competitive market environment
- Experience in working across multi jurisdictions and prepared to travel intra continentally.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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3). Digital Transformation Sales Enablement Lead
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
Description and Purpose of the Job
- At KPMG, you’ll find a world of opportunity, where our people give clients and communities the insights, they need to build a sustainable future.
- This role seeks an experienced professional to drive growth through sales enablement to achieve the firm’s digital transformation strategy and vision.
- As the Sales Enablement Lead for Connected Enterprise (the firm’s global approach to digital transformation) in Africa, you will be responsible for defining our sales enablement strategy, selecting tools, and developing processes to deliver on that strategy, and ultimately increasing the effectiveness of our Africa sales organization.
- If you excel in fast-paced environments and have 6 years of strong B2B experience in sales enablement involving complex products in an OEM or Consulting environment, we want to talk to you.
- This individual will work with the global Connected Enterprise team and various other global teams, the sector line of business (LOB) and functional teams across our African network of member firms to drive the firm’s sales agenda for Connected Enterprise in Africa.
- N.B: Please note that the ideal candidate will be based in Johannesburg, Nairobi or Lagos. The candidate will work from this base to serve their responsibilities across the region.*
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the primary contact for Connected Enterprise related sales queries for Africa
- Provide Sales Enablement support for Accounts to grow with Sales & Pipeline Management, Reporting, Financial Analysis with Account Summary and Go-To-Market Strategies
- Pursuits support with Strategic Research, Marketing, Event Coordination and Relationship Building Projects
- Provide support to Business Development Teams on Go-To-Market Strategies, Field of Play Analysis, Solution Centric Support, Financial Analysis and Relationship Management
- Revenue planning by coordinating with Connected Cluster Heads and Service Line Heads
- Provide enablers to identify specific actionable and strategic opportunities for the firm
- Strong Research Support identifying industry trends and disruptions and contextualizing them to highlight the potential market opportunity areas to win complex problem
- Sector/Client – lead campaigns from scoping to executing the final product/solution
- Attend and participate in all calls with the account team counterparts and share progress and status updates
- Maintain & develop marketing and knowledge artefacts working with relevant global teams to ensure consistency and compliance with latest narrative and insights
- Help the BD Team with RFP, RFI, along with Analyst views
- Work proactively and respond to Account Coordinators, Business Development Executive, Market Operation Leader & Partners
- Develop and maintain healthy working relationships with the Account Teams
- Proactively reaching out to account teams soliciting feedback for the work and taking appropriate action
- Lead on Connected Maturity Assessment workshops with account and pursuit teams in Africa
- Lead on Connected Enterprise sales training for Africa
- Work closely with relevant technology alliances teams and leaders.
- Be responsible for the Connected Enterprise pipeline management for Africa and reporting thereof into the global team.
Qualifications and Experience
- Candidates should possess a B.Sc. B.A. Degree or equivalent
- 6+ years of B2B experience in a sales enablement leadership role
- Demonstrated track record of developing and delivering training programs with measurably improve sales productivity and performance
- Proven experience creating and deploying successful onboarding plans within sales organizations
- Experience with high-touch, enterprise sales cycles
Skills and attributes required for the role:
- Strong knowledge of sales effectiveness (skills/knowledge training)
- Strong project management skills, especially project planning and delivery
- Ability to prioritize and balance multiple, on-going initiatives
- High energy level
- Previous sales enablement experience in a rapidly growing, successful OEM or consulting firm
- Experience with CRM tools will be an added advantage
- Ability to flourish in a dynamic, fast paced environment
- A flair for developing relationships across functions and departments as well as international borders.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.
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4). Data & Analytics Lead (Africa)
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time
Description and Purpose of the Job
- At KPMG, you’ll find a world of opportunity, where our people give clients and communities the insights, they need to build a sustainable future.
- We seek an experienced individual with a strong track record in building AI, ML and Deep Learning algorithms to help our clients harness the power of data. This is a Pan Africa role with responsibility for leading a team across the continent.
- *This resource will be based in either Johannesburg , Nairobi or Lagos.*
Key Responsibilities
Strategy:
- Provide technical data & analytics support to the Africa digital transformation team
- Leverage regional alliances with technology partners (e.g. Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, AWS, Google, etc) to drive proactive leads generation, joint pitch, pipeline management and conversions as they relate to data analytics
- Work with relevant functional areas and service lines across the Firm to deliver on client engagement and sales initiatives
- Leverage local and global KPMG artefacts, SMEs, and other network assets to advance the firm’s data & analytics agenda
- Manage, coach and grow the ML engineering and data science team
- Embed data & AI in everything we do – meaning that you will also be responsible for exploring and improving collaboration with different competences within KPMG
Client Impact:
- Drive business growth of the Data & Analytics business across Africa through expansion of ML engineering pipeline and wins at leading clients
- Oversee data management, warehousing, integration, and migration; business intelligence; analytics; and delivery across advisory and technical projects
- Lead the development and implementation of data and advanced analytics strategies for clients across Africa
- Develop ML and Deep Learning algorithms that help clients improve their predictive capabilities significantly
- Design, develop, maintain and improve machine learning algorithms for the clients’ products
- Help clients to employ machine learning principles in making business decisions
- Test and evaluate machine learning models and algorithms on real-world data sets
- Collaborate with the D & A team to build data pipelines, implement and train models based on results of experiments
- Interact with business leaders and functional experts to understand current and future business challenges and needs and help with solutioning.
- Provide subject matter expertise on data-related topics as well as consultative guidance for data management and governance
- Develop data models that improve processes and add strategic value to the client’s business
- Stay up to date with industry trends and emerging technologies in data and analytics to ensure we provide clients with the latest and most effective solutions
- Work closely with clients to understand business needs and develop tailored solutions
- Strengthen KPMG’s share of mind in the D & A space through impactful thought leadership
Finance:
- Deliver on targets and goals (including sales goals)
- Provide annual budget input for the area of responsibility for approval and integration into service line/ growth area budget
- Manage the annual budget, including costs for designated area
Qualifications Experience, and Skills
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a relevant field such as Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related fields
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in AI and ML engineering with a proven track record of delivering successful projects
- Deep knowledge of programming languages and frameworks such as Python, Java, C++, R, and SQL
- Deep hands-on experience with modern Data & AI Platforms such as Azure, AWS or GCP
- Practical experience with tools like Git/Github for version control, Jenkins for continuous integration, and Docker for containerization.
- Deep understanding of data and analytics technologies, including data warehousing, data integration and data visualization
- Good understanding of statistics, probability theory, and computer science fundamentals like algorithms and data structures
- Pre-sales experience with OEMs or consulting experience will be an added advantage
Skills and attributes required for the role:
- Being a self-starter and able to work independently including across multiple priorities and complex matrixed roles and responsibilities
- Confident, tactful and able to effectively influence others and deal effectively with senior leaders
- Strong communicator, including listening skills with an ability to translate insights across business and technology teams and to develop and present new ideas and conceptualize new approaches and solutions
- Strong team and work ethic, comfortable with ambiguity, change and challenge
- Interested in the bigger picture and able to think broader than own capabilities
- Ability to connect with the right complimentary people in KPMG to tackle new and complex business problems with a data flavour.
- Enthusiastic, driven and proactive
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5). Intelligent Automation Lead – Africa
Location: Lagos
Deadline: Not Specified.
How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply: