Transformation Change Manager

The Transformational Change team within KPMG is a critical part of our transformation planning and delivery capability. The team has been, and is currently involved in, significant government reform projects, as well as driving transformational change projects with key Australian private organisations. People are at the heart of any change journey, and creating a thriving transformation environment requires people who are people-centred, strategic in their outlook, results driven, and who understand the value of change and program management. In Transformational Change we work side-by-side with our clients to lead them on their transformation journey and assist them in navigating their way through to success. We help organisations design, plan, lead, deliver and assure complex pieces of work, and provide supporting activities pre-and-post transformation including organisational design, leadership capability, culture, and capability acquisition.

Your Opportunity

As a Transformation Change Senior Consultant or Manager you will apply your change management, project management, organisational design, leadership, learning and capability development and other people-program experience to initiate and deliver engagements to support clients embarking on significant transformation. Your responsibilities may include:

• Supporting KPMG Change Management Office teams ensuring that change planning, execution, dependencies and controls are properly integrated in large and complex transformation projects.
• Designing and delivery change management initiatives based on your previous experience leading change interventions and understanding of change management methodology such as ProSci
• Bringing together teams and capability from across our firm to work together to deliver major change projects and programs.
• Providing leadership to build the capacity of our delivery teams and integrating capabilities from across the firm, to ensure client engagements are delivered to the highest quality by implementing the right change management, learning and leadership development disciplines.
• Successfully deliver client-based transformation programs.
• Leading either traditional or agile deliveries based on your practical knowledge of primary methodologies such as Prince2/MSP and Scrum/SAFe.
• Leading complex system implementation change management programs drawing on your experience with system implementations for products such as Oracle, Microsoft, SAP or other key Finance and HR system platforms.

How are you extraordinary?

• You are passionate about the importance of fantastic communication to share ideas, inspire, and create change. You are able to digest, distil, and communicate complex concepts in both written and verbal forms.
• You have a can-do attitude and are always seeking creative solutions to problems with the help of the right technical tools and a supportive team.
• You are a teambuilder who does your best work with a diverse and multidisciplinary team around you to collaborate, share ideas, and learn together.

Your experience

At KPMG, we believe diversity of thought, background and unique experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our clients and communities. To be considered for this opportunity, your qualifications, skills & experience could include:

• Demonstrated ability to apply systems thinking and analysis techniques to complex problems
• Experience in using the latest Change management tools and techniques.
• Enjoy complexity and ambiguity and bringing innovative ideas to deliver quality outcomes
• Certification in Methods such as PRINCE2, AGILE, PMBOK, MSP, MOP, ProSci, ADKAR and other change management, project management, or learning methods.
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills.
• Background and interest in one or more of the following disciplines:
  • Change management
  • Organisational design
  • Learning and development
  • Leadership capability development
  • Communications and engagement
  • Portfolio, Program or Project management
  • Operating Model transformation
  • Governance – tactical, operational and strategic
  • Training facilitation and training program design
  • IT Service Management and Transition Management
  • Specific HR, Finance or CRM systems like Oracle, Microsoft or SAP
  • Understanding of state government structures and processes

Ideally you bring one or several of the following:

• Professional certification in change management, organisational design or project management methods.
• A higher education degree in areas like psychology, communications, human resources, or other degree or certification that demonstrates your knowledge in a field that underpins successful change management and demonstrates your ability to write and prepare documentation and deliverables at a high level.

The work you will do

Depending on your experience, the projects you work on could include:

• Digital Transformation/Change Management
  • You will assess business readiness and develop change strategies whilst creating detailed plans supporting the people and behavioural aspects of new technology implementation and adoption
  • Demonstrated experience working and establishing effective relationships with all levels of stakeholders while designing and delivering change activities to support business leaders and their teams
  • Your experience may include practical involvement of Change models, Frameworks and Theories, including behavioural economics

• Organisational Design
  • You will partner with clients to redesign the organisational structure of a team or company to create a high-performance culture
  • Your experience might include understanding the drivers of change in an organisation and being across the shifts in operating models required to achieve high performance into the future, including structural and other organisational factors

• Capability Lifecycle
  • You will develop detailed business cases for clients which captures the reasons for initiating a project or task. You will also develop documentation for Gate approvals within major projects
  • Your experience will ideally come from the change side of Capability Lifecycle.

KPMG is a professional services firm with global outreach and deep sector experience. We work with clients across an array of industries to solve complex challenges, steer change and enable growth. 

Our people are what make KPMG the thriving workplace that it is and what sets us apart is that we know great minds think differently. Collaborate with a team of passionate, highly skilled professionals who’ve got your back. You’ll build relationships with unique and diverse colleagues who will provide you with the support you need to be your best and produce meaningful and impactful work in an inclusive, equitable culture.

At KPMG, you’ll take control over how you work. We’re embracing a new way of working in many ways, from offering flexible hours and locations to generous paid parental leave and career breaks. Our people enjoy a variety of exciting perks, including retail discounts, health and wellbeing initiatives, learning and growth opportunities, salary packaging options and more.

Diverse candidates have diverse needs. During your recruitment journey, information will be provided about adjustment requests. If you require additional support before submitting your application, please contact the Talent Support Team.

At KPMG every career is different, and we look forward to seeing how you grow with us.