Business Operations

5 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom KPMG Full time

**Job details**:
**Location**:Birmingham, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes

**Capability**:International

**Experience Level**:Senior Manager

**Type**:Full Time

**Service Line**:International

**Contract type**:Secondment

**Job description**:
**About KPMG International**

More than 2,500 talented colleagues make up the KPMG International team, with a focus on ensuring global consistency and providing expertise to support member firms in the achievement of KPMG’s Trust and Growth ambition. KPMG International is comprised of a number of high-performing global teams, including: Global Advisory, Global Audit, Global Clients & Markets, Global Corporate Affairs, Global People, Global Quality and Risk Management, Global Tax & Legal, Global Technology and Knowledge, the International Office of General Counsel, and the Office of Chief Administrative Officer. Working together, the global team is changing the way business operates at KPMG, delivering value to KPMG firms and driving positive change in the communities in which KPMG International and KPMG firms operate.

**About the team**
- Operations, Technology Assurance Management” role for 14 months. This position offers great learning, delivery and relationship building opportunities across the organization. The team is close-knit with members working together on several high profile assurance management initiatives, enabling a great environment for collaboration. The team adopts intelligent working methods.

**Role summary**

Key responsibilities include:
- Overall: Managing multiple information protection audits of global technology services on the cloud and leading the service operations
- Strategy, Framework and Roadmap: Maintains a consistent and efficient information protection audit management framework and updates strategy based on changing landscape and stakeholder feedback. Communicates and trains other resources on the framework and leads delivery against established key performance indicators (short-term and long-term).
- Day to day oversight: Oversees activities to ensure that audits are planned in advance, considering scope overlaps, stakeholder outreach and resource limitations, and managed according to procedures. Oversees and reviews deliverables developed by the SOC 2 Attestation Manager and the PM.
- Accountable for high quality service deliverables.
- Executive reporting : Presents executive reports and communicates potential risks resourcefully early on to senior management.
- Trends Analysis: Identifies trends and proposes robust solutions for challenges. Identifies themes in information protection audit observations and suggests solutions to efficiently address based on industry experience, leading practices and global technology group context.
- Collaborates with other KPMGI teams, advising on suitable approach for auditable information protection practices and audit success, while ensuring minimum burden on business as usual activities.

**Key accountabilities**
- Maintains consistent and efficient information protection audit management framework and service roadmap.Briefs Auditees and Assurance Coordinators on the framework process and procedures and leads delivery against established key performance indicators (short-term and long-term). Oversees activities to ensure that audits are planned in advance, considering scope overlaps, stakeholder outreach and resource limitations, and managed according to procedures. Accountable for high quality service deliverables.
- Identifies trends and proposes robust solutions for challenges. Presents executive reports and communicates potential risks early on to management.Identifies themes in information protection audit observations and suggests solutions to efficiently address based on industry experience, leading practices and global technology group context.
- Manages standardization and oversight of multiple audits including SOC 2, ISO and ISQM-1 compliance
- Collaborates with Business Auditees, Controls Testing Teams, Assurance Coordinators and other teams across global technology groups that undergo information protection audits, advising on suitable approach for auditable information protection practices and audit success, while ensuring minimum burden on business as usual activities.

**Experience & knowledge**
- Minimum 8 years of experience, out of which minimum 5 years in information protection, including leading and / or managing information protection controls assessments, such as those based on ISO27001, ISO27017 and SSAE18 / System and Organization Control 2 / SOC2 for cloud platforms (internal and / or external assessments).
- Strong cloud information protection audit experience that includes scoping, planning, performing, managing, reporting and remediation monitoring activities.
- Program and project management skills and experience. Proven track record of leading multiple projects or programs, through the management of teams of cross-discipline specialist.
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