KPMG - AM - Research

KPMG is a leading professional services firm comprising over 152,000 professionals who work together to deliver value in more than 156 countries through in-depth industry insights in Audit, Tax & Advisory. The firm recorded more than USD 23 billion dollars in revenues in 2012.

For the last three years, KPMG has ranked as an ‘Ideal Employer’ on a global index of the world’s most attractive employers. The index is based on the opinions of close to 130,000 students from renowned academic institutions across many economies, including the United States, China, Germany, France, the United Kingdom and India. KPMG provides its employees with award-winning diversity initiatives and a formal mentoring program.

- The position will constitute part of the Research, Analysis and Knowledge (RAK) unit, KPMG’s knowledge services hub. RAK is integral to the firm’s strategy of enhancing innovation, building scalability and improving profitability. This unit is currently 400+ members strong. Below are a few more details on RAK:

- This global capability will be deployed to help KPMG practitioners rapidly adapt to changes in the business environment by: Identifying opportunities in the market; bringing more evidence based insights to their clients; and on the whole, helping them to be more successful in the market place

- This unit will be a world class Centre of Excellence providing high quality solutions to internal clients; but it is expected that, over time, some capabilities will be offered to KPMG clients

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The Role:

Position Title: Assistant Manager

Business Unit: Research, Analytics, and Knowledge (RAK)

Location: KPMG, KGS - Bangalore, India

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What are we looking for?

Overall Experience:

- A minimum of 5-7 years of work experience at a leading professional services firm (e.g. international consulting firm, Big 4, leading research house)

- Extensive experience in conducting research

- Experience of handling multiple stakeholders and managing teams

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Education:

- MBA/Master’s degree from a Tier 1/Tier 2 institute

What will you be expected to do?

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Key Responsibilities:

- Conceptualising and delivering high quality research products

- Work independently on the wide spectrum of complex and challenging research/consulting assignments focused across the globe - data sets, company reports, industry/segment reports, etc.

- Ensure highest quality and delivery on time for all the projects

- Directly engage with clients and requestors, interpret their requirements, scope and estimate projects and manage the communication flow throughout the project lifecycle, in coordination with the research team lead

- Manage analysts, senior analysts in the team

- Multitask on project deliveries, business development support (scoping, effort estimation, etc.)

- Performance evaluation training of team members

- Support the team lead with reporting requirements

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Team management:

- Lead a team of 1-2 researchers on a project basis

- Take full ownership of quality/ regular quality control of all deliverables

- Task allocation and bandwidth utilization

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What skills will you be expected to have:

- Ability to synthesize and critically analyze large quantities of qualitative and quantitative data quickly and draw meaningful insights

- Experience in preparing contextualized reports, briefs, thought leaderships, market sizing, competitive assessments and analysis

- End-to-end project delivery - client interaction, information collection, deliverable preparation, quality check and delivery

- Highly articulate with excellent communication and presentation skills (especially PowerPoint)

- Confidence to form and express independent opinion on relevant areas/developments

- Flexibility and willingness to work in a highly demanding and results oriented team environment where priorities can change frequently

- High consciousness towards attention to detail; drive and commitment towards delivering high quality service to the KPMG network.

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