Manager, Technology Transformation – CIO Advisory at KPMG

KPMG is a professional service company, being one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and PwC. Seated in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, KPMG employs 174,000 people and has three lines of services: audit, tax, and advisory.

Professional Qualifications And Experience:

1. Bachelor’s degree in IT or related degree from a recognized University


2. 8 plus years in IT and business experience. With a focus on building digital strategy and working with the client/organizations to roll out the strategy initiatives


3. Experience with emerging technologies (Cloud, big data, IoT) and innovation and their business application


4. Professional qualification such as Digital Transformation Certification, Lean six sigma, Prince2 AGILE, TOGAF, ISTQB, COBIT, ITIL certifications preferred


5. Team/ engagement management skills


6. Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills


7. Strong understanding of corporate governance and the regulatory environment


8. Demonstrated track record of quality work, project management and productive team interactions


9. Willingness to travel moderately

Roles and Responsibilities

The overall responsibility for the CIO advisory manager role is to lead a team involved in building and customizing digital transformation strategies and defining adoption approach for our clients. You will work closely with our client’s CIOs to help transform and manage IT. You will also drive CIO advisory business development efforts within the market, leveraging on deep multi-sector technical knowledge and experience.

CIO advisory engagements will include but not limited to:

1. Digital strategy formulation and review


2. Aliment IT Strategy to Business Strategy


3. Enterprise Architecture


4. IT cost optimization


5. IT budget and spend/IT service costing


6. IT services chargeback reviews


7. IT cost benchmarking


8. IT supplier management


9. IT Asset management


10. Pre- and post -project review


11. Change management


12. IT readiness to change assessment


13. Due diligence


14. IT Governance


15. IT capability maturity assessment (e.g., ITIL, COBIT)


16. IT Target Operating Model design


17. IT processes improvement


18. Applications and integration rationalization


19. Technology asset management

Managing Engagements

1. Be responsible for the CIO advisory team and related engagements


2. Planning, managing and delivery of CIO advisory related projects to ensure business risks are recognized and appropriately managed before adversely affecting the project objectives. Activities include planning, scoping, budgeting, development of execution methodologies and resourcing the project


3. Provide technical knowledge, direction and training to the engagement team to produce quality deliverables on time and on budget


4. Building and promoting strong client relationships by understanding client needs and proposing digital initiatives to serve their needs


5. Providing and facilitating the involvement of subject-matter experts for the key components of the strategy during the formulation stage


6. Presentation to project committee or board of directors (where relevant) on the engagement status, recommendations and action plans.


7. Manage engagement risk

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