Assistant Manager/Manager

At KPMG New Zealand, we work with some of the most exciting, innovative and important businesses in New Zealand. Our Financial Crime team sits within our Management Consulting practice and assists clients to detect, respond and transform their internal capabilities to prevent to fraud, bribery, corruption, money laundering, misconduct and other financial crime issues.Financial crime is complex and attracts people from various backgrounds which goes beyond traditional risk and compliance roles (e.g. technology, operations). We’re interested in more than just technical skills, we look for potential. How you grow matters to us. We’re looking for people hungry to learn, with an intellectual curiosity that is waiting to be tapped to help solve our client’s biggest challenges.We currently have an exciting opportunity for an Assistant Manager/Manager (based on experience) to assist our clients with identifying and solving their financial crime related challenges.

The Opportunity:

• You have knowledge and understanding of financial crime, both from a regulatory and a practical perspective
• You are a passionate financial crime fighter, who is authentic and easily builds credibility and trust with both colleagues and clients
• You are a people-person with a passion for navigating complexity with clients in different ways. This may range from helping them improve either their performance with strategy and technology, or navigating them through a regulatory audit.
• 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 tuned in to business development opportunities, with confidence creating effective material including proposals, case studies, and other sector-specific material which showcases our technical expertise.
• You have the ability to work at pace whilst delivering pragmatic and high quality outcomes

Day to Day you will:

• Provide financial crime insights to our clients and colleagues based on local and global expertise and trends within the market.
• Interpret and analyse, policies, procedures and controls to identify gaps or opportunities for improvement as well as providing creditable and pragmatic advice on how these can be addressed
• Prepare high quality reports and documents used by Management, Boards, legal advisors and sometimes in legal proceedings
• Monitor new regulatory and industry developments to deliver targeted messages relevant to our clients
• Identify and proactively respond to new business opportunities including cross-functional opportunities to provide added value to clients
• Build the reputation of KPMG through the quality of your work, expertise and judgement as well as innovative approaches

What you'll bring to the team:

• Consulting experience either in New Zealand or overseas
• More than 5 years of professional work experience, preferably within the financial services sector as a consultant, financial crime data or business analyst, a fraud or financial crime operations team or related role.
• Tertiary qualifications or work experience in a business discipline (e.g. finance, accounting, law).
• Tertiary qualifications in a technical discipline (e.g. engineering, IT, computing, information systems) desirable but not mandatory.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience in understanding New Zealand’s anti-money laundering and countering financing of terrorism legislation (but if you don’t have strong experience in this, we’re keen on understanding what exposure you have and how you will learn).
• Must have valid NZ work rights and be legally allowed to work in NZ.

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