Director - Functional Support, Testing & Qa Lead

Job details

Location: Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Leeds, Leeds Broadgate, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Plymouth, Reading, Sheffield, South Coast - Southampton, Watford

Capability: Audit

Experience Level: Director

Type: Full Time

Service Line: Central Audit

Contract type: Permanent

Job description

Functional support, Testing & QA lead

Location: UK (any office)

Capability: Audit

Experience Level: Director

Type: Full Time

The Team

The KPMG Audit Technology team is dedicated to building cutting-edge solutions in close collaboration with the Audit function. We blend audit expertise with the latest technology skills, enabling us to understand the challenges auditors face daily and develop strategically important products that simplify their lives whilst enhancing Audit Quality.

As a crucial member of the team, you will collaborate with a talented mix of Architects, Data Scientists, Engineers, Experience Designers, Business Analysts, Testing specialists, and Product Owners. Together, we build, deliver, and manage a portfolio of truly exciting products.

In recent years, our products' size and scale have rapidly expanded, leading to significant growth in our technology capability. There's never been a better time to join us.

With our ambitious growth plans, your future here is something to get excited about. As a valued team member, you’ll stay current within the latest trends in technology and audit delivery.

The Role

We’re looking for an experienced individual to take on the role overseeing the Functional Support for the Audit product portfolio, the Testing & quality assurance activities and the governance, risk & control activities that operate over the Audit product portfolio.

The individual will report to the Head of technology & solutions.

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Leadership: Provide strategic leadership for the audit product portfolio, focusing on, application lifecycle management, application quality and cost management.
• Application Lifecycle Management: Manage the application lifecycle for all audit products, focusing on governance & controls, technology deployment, release planning and product maintenance.
• Testing and Quality Assurance (QA): Lead the implementation of a quality assurance framework, defining quality objectives, ensuring QA processes operate throughout the development lifecycle, and establishing monitoring and reporting mechanisms over all Testing & QA activities.
• Governance, risk & controls: Take accountability for the governance, risk & control activities over all audit products, including General IT controls, controls required by the firms System of Quality Monitoring and Software Audit Tool related controls.
• Team Management: Provide leadership and line management to the Clara Technology team (team who provide Functional Support, execute testing and operate controls). Oversee the testing and QA resources used by the Audit business (seconded & borrowed).
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Work closely with key stakeholders, both internal (within audit business and with Enterprise Wide Technology) and external (global and other member firms), to ensure audit products run effectively with the appropriate support models and operations.
• Process Improvements: Drive continuous improvements across the audit application landscape, including product lifecycle, support processes, governance, and operations. Promote efficiency, future-proofing the support models, and enable a transition towards a product-centric model.
• Financial Oversight: Oversee the business as usual run-cost budgets for audit products, implement a FinOps framework for cloud cost reduction, targeting a reduction in cloud costs.

Experience & skills

• Experience leading a portfolio of complex technology products, providing Functional Support, testing and deployment activities.
• Experience building and managing a team providing Functional Support to end users of a portfolio of technology products.
• Practical experience implementing a Quality Assurance framework and overseeing teams responsible for testing and Quality Assurance.
• Experience implementing, operating and monitoring a system of quality control over a portfolio of technology products.
• A proven track record of technology cost management, including evidence of driving actions to implement cost savings.

People & Culture

• Embrace and embed our culture ambition of high challenge, high support which is grounded in Our Values.
• Operate with a curious and sceptical mindset ensuring that this is embedded in your everyday work.
• Actively lead and embed a coaching culture to get the best out of others in an environment where everyone in the team feels empowered to speak up or challenge where appropriate.
• Be inclusive and embrace the opportunity to work with other teams within Audit and across the firm in an integrated way. Have a sense of community, purpose, and fun.

Why Audit at KPMG?

Audit is the largest of our UK practices. Some of the world’s biggest companies rely on us to provide independent insight, challenge and expertise, so the work we undertake affects investment decisions, inspires confidence in public sector expenditure and supports our economic growth. Today, more than ever in disruptive times, audit is a function needed by society, and in the future, so we can capitalise, and grow. As part of the Audit team, you’ll be helping to build the confidence and trust that business and society need to thrive. We want to lead the conversation when it comes to shaping the future of the profession. And given the scale and variety of our audit engagements in both the UK and globally, we are well placed to create change. If you share our commitment to achieving excellence and working to the highest audit standards, are a natural collaborator who values different perspectives and relishes the opportunity to develop and progress - then KPMG could be the place where you can thrive.