Manager, Finance Transformation - Vancouver, Canada - KPMG-Canada

KPMG-Canada

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Vancouver, Canada

5 days ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

Overview

At KPMG, you'll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: turning insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world.

The Opportunity

KPMG's Finance Transformation (FT) practice helps organizations be nimble and drive business value across the enterprise.

Aimed at the finance function to increase performance and reduce cycle times, we work with CFOs and finance leaders to truly transform the finance function and how it supports the overall enterprise.

We do this by delivering a range of financial transformation capabilities within three service networks - efficient finance operations, effective decision support, and finance strategy & transformation.

Situated within the FT practice, our Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) group works with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) and Financial Reporting functions to empower their teams to become more insightful and true business partners.

We are trusted advisors and leaders in financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting (PBF) as well as financial close and consolidation, reporting and analytics with a particular focus on implementing technology solutions to enable these processes and drive insightful business decision making.

The KPMG FT Practice is looking for an experienced Manager to act as a functional leader do drive finance transformation in FP&A and Financial Reporting as well as implementation of EPM solutions like OneStream, Oracle, and Workday solutions.

This role will be responsible for managing target operating model assessments and EPM implementations, working alongside with the broader KPMG Management Consulting (MC) group and working with Senior Management to continue to grow the Finance Transformation practice with focus on FP&A, Financial Reporting and EPM.

**What you will do

Manage projects to improve or redesign finance with focus on FP&A or Financial Reporting functions by leveraging leading practices, digital technologies, and new ways of working aligned with KPMG's Future of Finance point of view
Manage FT projects with specific focus on end to end EPM functional transformation and technology implementations of PBF and Consolidation systems, like OneStream, Oracle EPBCS, or Workday Adaptive Insights
Help organizations to manage their risks and improve their performance by managing projects across each phase of the implementation life cycle
Support the development of proposals, contribute to business development activities and support internal and external marketing events
Identify business development opportunities for FT and EPM projects
Contribute to thought leadership to the development and evolution of our FT & EPM methodologies and intellectual capital including publishing articles, whitepapers, or performing research in support of EPM initiatives
Work with senior KPMG leaders to enhance and integrate service offerings across the Management Consulting and Advisory practices
Manage, mentor, and train Consultants and Senior Consultants within the FT EPM Advisory Practice
Develop relationships and partnerships with other KPMG Offices

**What you bring to the role

Bachelor degree in Business, Accounting, Commerce, or related field or equivalent experience
Completion of MBA or Accounting designation (CA, CGA, CMA, CPA) preferred
Minimum 610 years of combined industry experience in senior FP&A or Financial Reporting roles and implementation of EPM solutions with a professional services advisory firm or company and experience leading and delivering full life cycle implementation projects related to EPM with OneStream, Adaptive Insights and/or Oracle EPBCS.
Strong mix of business and functional knowledge related to Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting (PBF) and Financial Reporting processes with a proven ability to communicate business requirements and understand the implications on the functional design.
Experience working in a client facing role across a variety of industries and businesses.
Superior communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate with client stakeholders, work closely in a collaborative team environment and lead teams and project deliverables.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to clearly and articulately identify and define problems and develop creative solutions to address client requirements.
Experience with governance, controls, process and procedures, centers of competency, change management, conceptual data modeling, master data management, data standardization and stewardship, information integrity and compliance, and data quality management
Ability to travel within Canada and the US
French language is an asset

Keys to your success
KPMG individuals

Deliver Impact | Seek Growth | Inspire Trust and understand that a diverse workforce enables us to deepen relationships and strengthen our business.

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