KPMG Financial Risk Management wish to recruit an Enterprise Risk Management Advisor to support with executing risk management projects for our financial services clients including developing and implementing ERM programs

Key roles and responsibilities

The ERM Advisor will have the following responsibilities:

• Assist in the development of a work plan, budget and quality plan to ensure efficiency, high performance and high-quality work on engagements.
• Maintaining a progress tracker of engagement milestones, tasks and deliverables. profit objectives and deliver designated engagement deliverables.
• Perform engagement recovery, quality risk management and administrative analysis. Undertake tasks as directed by engagement Manager.
• Assisting in preparation of technical and commercial value propositions.
• Build an understanding of client business and markets to assist in the development of client relationships and developing a commercial mindset on how work performed impacts profitability at the engagement and practice levels.
• Manage pipeline and revenue as required, maintain a cross-selling value, meet individual targets and ensure proper billing and timely follow up.
• Supervise staff level engagement teams.
• Build industry knowledge through involvement in internal and external events, documenting and circulating articles and thought leadership.
• Any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Requirements

Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Actuarial, Financial engineering, Business, Engineering, Economics, Statistics, or related relevant degree course
• Must have 4 – 6 years of experience working in Financial Risk Management.
• Must have at least 3 years of experience working in Enterprise Risk Management within the financial services sector (Banking & Insurance).
• Demonstrated experience in reviewing and/ or implementing Enterprise Risk Management systems/ frameworks.
• Must have a professional qualification such as FRM, ERM, IRM, ACCA, CFA, CPA or CIA.
• Certifications in ESG and climate risk would be an added advantage.

Technical competencies and Personal attributes

• Exhibits commercial, technical and social awareness.
• Client focused delivery that is effective and efficient.
• Demonstrates creativity, agile performance and innovation in the way they work.
• Successful delivery of the risk initiatives as they arise.
• Ability to train and mentor team members on different tasks.
• Possess strong written, verbal and research skills with the ability to work well both autonomously and collaboratively.
• Resilience and Tenacity: must be able to always sustain motivation and commitment and can contain and absorb stressful moments and issues.
• Multicultural Skills: must be able to operate and interact in a multicultural environment and uphold cultural diversity; and
• Pragmatic Problem-Solving Skills: ability to handle and resolve unstructured problems and provide effective solutions or avenues for the solutions to come from other team members.

We offer:

• An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting edge clients across Africa.
• Continuous learning and development.
• Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams.
• Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.