KPMG Job Opportunities in Lagos, 1st November 2014
KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory Services. Our vision is to build and sustain our reputation as the best firm to work with by ensuring our people, clients and communities achieve their full potential.
Interesting Career Opportunities within the Department of Professional Practice (DPP) at KPMG Professional Services, Lagos
- Are you looking for a career in a challenging, dynamic environment?
- Are you looking for an opportunity to work with a passionate, forward-thinking team?
- Can you proffer plausible and well-researched options/solutions to challenging issues on IFRS and other accounting related business issues?
A career at the KPMG DPP could be for you!
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Audit Consultant
Auto req ID: 101892BR
Location: Lagos
Function: Audit
Job Description
The KPMG DPP is a unit within KPMG set up to enhance the quality of KPMG West Africa’s audit and assurance practice and provide guidance to our professionals to achieve efficiency in the delivery of our service offering through a dynamic process of pursuance and monitoring of best quality practices, excellence in training and strategic liaison with key regulators.
We are seeking bright minds that are ready to learn, perform and are interested in a challenging and rewarding career. You will have the opportunity to work with a team of outstanding professionals of diverse backgrounds, probing minds and varied experience. We always strive to win. Not as individuals but by working as a team. Our winning culture is based on collaborative teamwork, and we create results by being open-minded, helping each other and showing trust in each other’s method and capabilities.
Requirement
Interested candidates must:
- Have a minimum of 3 years relevant experience
- Possess good leadership and interpersonal skills to build rapport and trust with all levels of staff and external stakeholders
- Be able to analyze complex accounting/assurance problems, identify core issues, investigate and evaluate information and generate appropriate solutions to problems.
- Be able to convey business information in a clear, credible and persuasive manner
- Have a very good knowledge of IFRS
- Show adaptability, willingness to learn new skills and commitment to exceptional delivery
- Have exceptional oral and written communication skills
- Have well-developed facilitation and presentation skills
- Be innovative and creative
- Have a minimum of 5 O' level credits (including English & Math) at ONE sitting
- Have a minimum of second class (upper division) degree at undergraduate level
- Have completed professional accountancy certification – ICAN/ACCA conversion to ICAN
- Be below 35 years old
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Audit Analyst
Auto req ID: 101902BR
Location: Lagos
Job Description
The KPMG DPP is a unit within KPMG set up to enhance the quality of KPMG West Africa's audit and assurance practice and provide guidance to our rofessionals to achieve efficiency in the delivery of our service offering through a dynamic process of pursuance and monitoring of best quality practices, excellence in training and strategic liaison with key regulators.
We are seeking bright minds that are ready to learn, perform and are interested in a challenging and rewarding career. You will have the opportunity to work with a team of outstanding professionals of diverse backgrounds, probing minds and varied experience. We always strive to win. Not as individuals but by working as a team. Our winning culture is based on collaborative teamwork, and we create results by being open-minded, helping each other and showing trust in each other’s method and capabilities.
Requirement
Interested candidates must:
- Show adaptability, willingness to learn new skills and commitment to exceptional delivery
- Have exceptional oral and written communication skills
- Be innovative and creative
- Have a minimum of 5 O' level credits (including English & Math) at ONE sitting
- Have a minimum of second class (upper division) degree at undergraduate level
- Have completed professional accountancy certification - ICAN/ACCA conversion to ICAN
- Graduate Trainees must be below 26 years old
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Experienced Analysts- Internal Audit, Risk & Compliance
Auto req ID: 101730BR
Location: Lagos
Job Description
The team works with several clients to provide internal audit outsourcing services, diagnostic review, design and implementation of corporate governance frameworks, enterprise risk management services, etc.
Requirements:
To apply, applicant must:
- Be less than 28 years
- Have a First Class or Second Class (Upper) degree in any discipline, preferably Accounting
- Have a minimum of 5 O'level credits (including English & Maths) at one sitting
- Have 3-4 years post NYSC working experience (preferably in an Audit, Risk Management or Compliance Role).
- ACA/ACCA would be an added advantage
Interested and qualifies candidates should:
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Job Title: Analyst - IARCS
Auto req ID: 9797BR
Location: Lagos
Job Description
- The KPMG IARCS unit is a clear market leader in the provision of governance, risk and compliance services.
- The team works with several clients across various industries to provide internal audit outsourcing services, review and design of corporate governance, diagnostic review and design of enterprise risk management services, etc.
Qualifications
- Less than 26 years of age
- First Class or Second Class (Upper) in any discipline, preferably Accounting
- 5 O'level credits (including English & Maths) at a sitting
- Must have completed the NYSC program
- ACA/ACCA would be added advantage
Interested and qualifies candidates should:
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Job Title: Librarian
Auto req ID: 101562BR
Location: Lagos
Job Description
Roles and Responsibilities
- Part of Knowledge Department specializing in knowledge management and information services
- Maintain library content and services
- Manage and authorize requests for library books and publications and documents
- Maintain the library's collections of books, serial publications, documents
- Responds to numerous reference questions on a daily basis, referring staff to appropriate resources
- Perform regular cataloguing of new acquisitions, maintaining accurate data and building a strong knowledge base of the library materials
- Supervise the day-to-day operation and develop procedures and routines of the department to meet the need of the users.
- Provides research support to KM and necessary library content management.
- Processing company intelligence search requests
- Responsible for Online Portal/Content management enquiring timely and accurate information availability of BIG 4s and KPMG news.
- Archiving information for easy access and retrieval
Knowledge & Competency Requirements
Minimum Education & Experience:
- First degree in Library Science, Social Science or Arts or its equivalent
Experience:
- 3-4 years in related field
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Functional/Technical Skills:
- Organizational and coordination ability
- Web management and development skills (html, css and JavaScript)
- Technology appreciation, including a working understanding of Microsoft Office Share Point Server.
- Good computer skills, searching the internet
Behavioural Skills:
- Good interpersonal skills and ability to work in diverse teams
- Strong relationship building and networking skills
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Helpdesk Supervisor
Auto req ID: 101788BR
Location: Lagos
Roles and Responsibilities
1. Helpdesk Supervision
- Direct the activities of a 5-person helpdesk team ensuring proper distribution of workload and monitoring escalations till resolution.
- Provide project management coordination/assistance to the helpdesk team for all deployment projects, ensuring projects are completed within agreed business timelines.
- High priority incidents and ensure resolution or upward escalations and incident management within agreed business SLA’s.
- Provide on-the-job training to team members.
- Develop technical user documentation.
2. Asset Management
- Ensure all IT assets are accounted for and records entered into central asset database.
- Monitor spares availability.
- Monitor maintenance availability for defective or damaged IT equipment.
- Mange external vendors
3. Reporting
- Analyze helpdesk tickets to ensure SLA metrics are been met
- Provide reports for problem detection and management.
- Ensure maintenance of Helpdesk incident logging database
- Create report templates as required by the business
4. Second Line Support
- Assist with incidents that have been escalated by first line support.
- Use tools available in order to solve escalated problems.
- Keep first line support function informed of delays and completion in the problem resolution process so that they can provide the client with status updates and feedback.
- Manage the Helpdesk database and liaise with clients on a regular basis, as the need requires.
5. Security Role (National Information Security Specialist – NISS)
The National Information Security Specialist is responsible to the NITSO for maintaining the security of data held on the firm’s IT systems as specified.
- Ensure that appropriate access control methods and tools are in place for all systems.
- Ensure that systems adequately protect the availability, integrity and confidentiality of stored information.
- Ensure that methods for data encryption are available and used where appropriate.
- Provide guidance and support on information security practices to development projects to ensure that systems developed provide adequate information security.
- Provide guidance and support on information security practices to operations and end user support staff to ensure that systems in use provide adequate information security.
- Add newly identified information security issues and risks to the security issues and risks database.
- Progress actions allocated through the security issues and risks database.
- Periodically check for additional security update from the Global Desktop Release Management Site.
- Responsible for regular monitoring and reporting on the achievement of the third-party service level performance criteria
Qualifications and Skills
Skills required:
1. Functional competencies:
- Experience in people management
- Decision making abilities
- Issue resolution abilities
2. Technical competencies:
- Service management skills (ITIL certification would be an advantage)
- Project management skills
- Ability to understand and work in a complex technical processing environment through use of sophisticated and leading edge tools
- Proficiency in use of Operating system deployment tools (Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager)
3. Professional competencies:
- Results driven
- Strong analytical skills
- Ability to meet deadlines and targets
- Clear communication in English, both verbal and written
- Superior customer service skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Ability to lead a team
- Continuous improvement mentality
- Adaptable to change
- Ability to work in a fast pace, high pressure work environment
Experience and Background
- At least 7 years working experience in helpdesk environment
- At least 2 years supervisory experience
- Ability to write documentation to describe program development, logic, coding and corrections.
- Enthusiasm, can-do attitude
- Good relationship building skills.
- Good customer service/relationship skills
- Excellent communication skills; written and verbal.
- Patience in resolving problems and supervising subordinates.
- Ability to carry out duties in a well-organised and proactive manner.
- Ability to perform effectively under pressure.
- Detailed knowledge of Standard IT Service delivery methodology
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: IT Operations Supervisor
Auto req ID: 101791BR
Location: Lagos
Roles and Responsibilities
- Provide effective coordination for a 7-8 person operations team
- Ensure availability of IT systems and infrastructure
- Ensure that service desk tickets are managed within client SLAs
- Build, configure and deploy laptops and servers with SCCM
- Ensure processes and procedures are followed to deliver efficient service
- Establishes or recommends policies and procedures for system use, services and security.
- Provide project management coordination for projects/programs
- Plans and implements system security procedures, to include firewalls, host and client access, file permissions, and user accounts.
- Develop technical user documentation
- Performs other information technology duties as required to support the work of the unit.
Qualifications and Skills
1. Functional competencies:
- Experience in people management
- Decision making abilities
- Issue resolution abilities
2. Technical competencies:
- Service management skills (ITIL certification is required)
- Cisco networking skills (CCNP certification is required)
- Project management skills
- Knowledge of storage technologies (HP, NetApps)
- Knowledge of Symantec BackupExec
- Working knowledge of virtualization technologies (VMWare and Hyper V)
- Hands-on experience with Windows Server technologies (Server 2008, Server 2012)
- Knowledge of Windows Active Directory and Exchange 2010
- Good understanding of telecommunications systems (Alcatel and Avaya PBX)
- Proficiency in use of Operating system deployment tools (Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager)
3. Professional competencies:
- Result driven with strong analytical skills
- Excellent communication skills; written and verbal
- Good customer service/relationship skills
- Continuous improvement mentality
- Ability to perform effectively under pressure
Experience and Background
- University Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related discipline.
- Relevant Microsoft, Cisco or equivalent professional qualification
- Minimum of 7 years relevant core IT networking and service desk experience in a multinational environment
- Broad knowledge of current IT development and integration technologies and best practice.
- 5+ years of expertise in implementing, administering, and troubleshooting network infrastructure devices, including: firewalls, routers, switches, wireless access points and controllers, and monitoring applications.
- Intermediate to expert understanding of firewall configuration and maintenance.
Interested and qualified candidates for this position should:
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Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.