Manager - Data Management and Governance

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At KPMG our Data Team focuses on enabling our Financial Services clients to optimise the use of their data to deliver on their business strategy.

As a Manager you will be working with a broad range of top tier clients. You will be expected to have a proven track record of advising clients and leading teams within large projects in strategy, design and implementation. You will be expected not only to dive into the technical details but also to be able to translate these into business terms to solve client issues.

With our team experiencing rapid growth you will accountable for building and developing the data management and data governance sub-capability and helping our people grow.

The Person

Our Data team is dynamic and growing at a fast pace, so we are seeking individuals with high energy who can cover a vast range of data work, inspire change and make an impact within the team and client organisation. Whilst prior consulting experience is not essential, we are looking for individuals that can demonstrate the required core consulting skills and business acumen. For example:

• In-depth current sector experience in either Banking, Capital Markets or Insurance with knowledge of key business drivers and key regulations in the industry (e.g. GDPR, MiFID II, MiFIR, Brexit, LIBOR, operational resilience, FinTech and digital ledger technology).
• A proven track record of working with stakeholders to assess scope of work, developing business cases for data change and delivering benefits by leveraging industry insights.
• The ability to build constructive working relationships both within KPMG (across different teams, functions and countries at all levels), as well as build lasting client relationships with senior stakeholders and a network and range of experience to help address client needs.
• Have a keen interest in future technology trends and use these to develop and drive market propositions/capability.
• Coordinate the sales lifecycle, proposal, and RFP development and identify profitable opportunities and sell-on at client work.
• Make a significant contribution in developing a market proposition/capability and wider practice contribution.

Specifically you will have strong technical experience in a number of the following:

• Proven experience in leading a small team or workstream with a focus on data management / data governance best practice
• Capturing data requirements for large scale transformation programmes, through working with a broad range of stakeholders, running workshops and managing team.
• Experience of data lineage, taxonomies, catalogue and metadata management.
• Experience in defining, designing and implementing policies, standards, guidelines, tools, metrics and standards for data management and governance framework.
• Experience with data management / governance technologies, such as Collibra, Informatica, Ataccama etc.
• Experience in supporting the definition and implementation of a data strategy
• Proven experience defining and executing data quality framework using tooling and dashboarding

To excel in this role, you are able to fully grasp the complexity of data management and governance, its importance in marketplace currently and why it is critical for our current and potential clients.

At KPMG, your long-term future is every bit as important to us as it is to you. That’s why our aim is to give you experiences that will stay with you for a lifetime. Whether it’s great training and development, mobility opportunities or corporate responsibility volunteering activities - you’ll gain a wealth of experiences on which to build a rewarding career. We’re a firm that encourages you to be yourself, values your contribution, and inspires you to act as a role model, always focused on doing the right thing for each other, our clients and our communities.

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While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a balanced lifestyle. We offer part time roles with flexible working arrangements which could include, annualised hours, early or late starts to fit around other commitments, shorter working days etc. We are happy to discuss your own requirements and our range of flexible working arrangements in more detail, should that be of interest and, as part of the recruitment process, we can put you in touch with people who work flexibly.
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