People & Change, Senior Manager, Job in Kenya

Position Summary

KPMG People & Change wish to recruit a Senior Manager to analyze clients’ needs, develop strategies, and lead a team to deliver tailored HR solutions, ensuring compliance to KPMG policies and professional Standards.

Key roles and responsibilities

The Senior Manager will have the following responsibilities:

Plan and manage client engagement risk and project budget.

Manages engagements or projects to consistently achieve specific revenue and profit objectives and deliver designated engagement deliverables. 

Provide technical knowledge, direction and training to the engagement team to produce quality deliverables.

Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders/ clients.

Contribute to proposal development efforts by driving market initiatives through involvement with relevant markets team.

Generate revenue as per the allocated target to meet the team budget

Support the development of strong delivery teams.


Involvement in community and office initiatives.

Build industry knowledge through involvement in events, articles and thought leadership.

Ensure compliance to policies, standards and procedures.

Ensure delivery teams are appropriately supervised, coached and supported to ensure no write offs.

Leverage on client relationship and work with team members to ensure collections are done in line with agreed timelines.

Any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:

Must have a Master’s degree in Accounting, Business, Human Resources Management, or related relevant degree course

Membership of a relevant professional bodies such as CIPD, IHRM.

Must have a minimum 10 years of experience in human resource consulting.

Experience in managing HR engagements within East Africa.

Technical competencies and Personal attributes:

Strong consulting skills. Be able to effectively support all aspects of engagement delivery, end-to-end, with minimal supervision and high accountability.

Strong analytical & problem-solving skills, with the ability to proactively engage and consult with others across all levels.

Must demonstrate strategic insights on client management and engagements.

Must have hands on experience on financial budgeting, planning and managing strong networks with high standards of integrity.

Ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines.

Strong business writing, report writing, presentation and research skills.

A high aptitude for learning new approaches and innovation.

Proven experience in formulating business strategy and growth.

Experience as a keynote speaker in business conferences, pitching, writing and publishing thought leadership articles.

Diligent and committed to excellence.

Excellent coordination and planning skills.

Resilience and Tenacity: must be able to always sustain motivation and commitment and can contain and absorb stressful moments and issues.

Willingness to travel within and outside the region on a need basis.

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.

How To Apply

If your career aspirations match this exciting opportunity, please use the link below to apply: Filling the link is mandatory for consideration alongside your application to talentrecruit@kpmg.co.ke quoting People & Change – Senior Manager by 24 June 2024.