Associate Director

**Job no**: 519093

**Work type**: Permanent Full Time

**Location**: Melbourne, Geelong

**Division**: Audit, Assurance & Risk Consulting

**KPMG’s Analytics and Data Management Team (ADM)** is a passionate group of specialists that brings together capabilities across data management and governance, data engineering, data visualization, analytics, and data science, including artificial intelligence and machine learning within KPMG’s Audit, Assurance and Risk Consulting division. We collaboratively support a broad range of clients across the public and private sectors, helping protect trust, manage risk, and build value with data. Our rapidly growing team spans Australia’s capital cities, working together in a dynamic and inclusive environment with opportunities to learn, bond and make a meaningful impact with our shared passion for data and analytics.

**Your opportunity**

As an Associate Director within the Analytics and Data Management Team (ADM), you will manage a portfolio of crucial State Government clients and internal stakeholders. Your role will include growing a portfolio of leads and opportunities, scoping and designing data projects, providing strategic data advice and developing solutions using the latest data methods and technology to solve complex client challenges.

**Key responsibilities**:
You will work with the leadership group to ensure that delivery is optimised, business development opportunities are identified, and key metrics are met. You will also be involved in presentations and client demonstrations and be responsible for managing the outputs and development of team members working with you, and your client portfolio.
- Lead teams to deliver unique, innovative, and strategic solutions that enhance client data capabilities. You will drive growth and new initiatives across sectors, working closely with the Partnership in leading business development pursuits across the division.
- Being knowledge, experience and opportunities from working with data in the IGH sector and state government clients
- Building effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to understand business needs and clearly articulate the approach and insights related to data-led engagements.
- Effectively managing and maintaining expected targets/metrics for the team, self and other team members on engagements where appropriate.
- Contributing to delivering fully integrated solutions and making decisions to best meet client needs, collaborating with other parts of the firm as required.
- Managing project outcomes proactively and, where directed, taking ownership for decision-making on cost estimates, resource mix and skill requirements for activities and projects.
- Supporting the growth of the ADM business through active sales pursuits and business development initiatives
- Translating data analytics results and complex technical concepts into meaningful insights for clients and internal stakeholders to understand.
- More broadly, assisting in the growth of data analytics capability across the Risk Assurance team and AARC division.

**How are you Extraordinary?**

The successful applicant will possess most of the following characteristics:

- Minimum ten years of experience in data analytics, data architecture or a related field
- Ability to quickly build strong relationships and networks with a variety of stakeholders, both internal and external
- Strong ability to problem solve and suggest and implement process and performance improvements that continue adding value to the business.
- Experience with effectively managing multiple priorities and project
- Effectively led and/or mentoring a team of business/data analysts.
- High experience in data modelling, data architecture and analytical skills.
- Experienced in designing, developing, testing and overseeing the development of SQL
- Experience in data visualisation technologies (PowerBI, Tableau and/or Qlik)
- Experience highly proficient in analysing large, high-dimensional datasets from multiple sources, interpreting findings and identifying key insights to communicate to a non-technical audience with analytic tools or coding languages (e.g. SQL, Celonis, Python, Qlik, R, etc.)
- Be passionate about delivering high-quality work
- Tertiary qualification(s), preferably: Commerce, Economics, Mathematics/Statistics, Computer Science, Software Engineering

**The KPMG Difference**

We embrace flexibility as a key principle to allow our people to manage the changing demands of work, personal and family life.

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