Assistant- ESG - KPMG, Dubai

 Assistant- ESG (Audit Sustainability)- KPMG, Dubai

Major duties and responsibilities

•    Work as part of a multidisciplinary team across a range of industries to assist companies in better understand and develop solutions to respond to the complex and evolving policy, regulatory, and business environment risks and opportunities associated with Corporate Sustainability and ESG.

•    Review/analyze corporate activities and provide recommendations related to enhance their sustainability/ESG strategy, methods, framework, and related tools to support clients in achieving their sustainability/ ESG objectives.

•    Assist with the review and development of sustainability/ESG programs and related reporting, such as materiality assessments, peer benchmarking, stakeholder engagement, gap analysis, metric/KPI identification (in alignment with common sustainability/ESG reporting standards such as GRI), and the preparation of reporting (internal and external) materials.

•    Work with engagement teams to perform fieldwork, including data collection, analysis, and work paper documentation; prepare, edit, and proofread narrative reports and presentations of observations and recommendations.

•    Support team leads with client relationships, business development efforts, and drafting thought leadership, as well as internal collateral and pieces of training on sustainability and ESG topics; work closely, but independently, under the direction of Managers, Directors, and Partners.

•    Ability to obtain and present appropriate assurance evidence, address the relevant assurance objectives, and demonstrates its relevance to the rest of the assurance. 

•    Document the results of their assurance work in accordance with KPMG Sustainability Assurance Methodology (KSAM), regulatory requirements, and using applicable IT systems and tools.

•    Collection and research of relevant sustainability data (i.e. benchmarking, trends, regulatory developments). 

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PROFILE

Education requirements: 

•    Bachelor’s degree in Commerce or equivalent and/or Bachelor’s degree in ESG/Sustainability or equivalent topcis.

•    Understanding of the following concepts and frameworks preferred:

o    Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)

o    Integrated Reporting (IR)

o    Sustainably Development Goals (SDGs)

o    United Nations Global Compact (UNGC)

o    Environment and Social Governance (ESG)

o    Occupational Health and Safety Frameworks (OSHA, OSHAD)

o    Social Return On Investment (SROI) or equivalent

Work experience requirements:

•    1-2 years of previous work experience 

•    Experience with ISAE 3000 assurance/ sustainability reporting is preferred

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Audit Senior-Infrastructure Government and Healthcare- KPMG, Dubai

 Audit Senior-Infrastructure Government and Healthcare- KPMG, Dubai

Major duties and responsibilities

•    Overall responsible for the audit as an in charge for medium and small clients. In case of large clients, act as semi senior.

•    Mentoring of Assistant, Associate, trainees & assist them with the office orientation 

•    Involved in planning and strategy of the audit

•    Monitoring budgets of the engagements

•    Reporting including annual financial statements, managements letters, key features memoranda, etc.

•    Ensuring that all review notes are cleared

•    Analytical review of full financial statements

•    Consolidations (specific high risk areas)

•    Follow through to finalisation

•    Audit administration

•    Client relations – interaction with client staff

•    Preparation and updating of system documentation

•    Preparation / completion of general file documents

•    Analytical Review (AR) of financial statements

•    Specifically focused on audit of key financial statement captions e.g.

o    Accounts payable (AP)

o    Accounts receivable, excluding the evaluation of the provision for doubtful debts

o    Fixed assets, excluding the assessment of capital work in progress and fixed policies when these audits are complex and more risky

o    Inventory, including the evaluation of the obsolescence provision

o    Investments, excluding complex financial instruments

•    Coaching, review and delegation of work performed by team members & ensure that the engagement reviews are completed within the given time

•    Updating of system documentation

•    Clearing review notes raised by the job in charge and mangers. Prior to management review conduct a thorough check on the working papers

•    Develop industry knowledge to complement functional skills

•    Compliance testing, including system work through

•    The audit of the client’s statutory records, internal controls and consolidated accounts

•    Attending stock counts and the follow up of the counts

•    Participates in the pre engagement planning, with team members and client staff when needed. Discuss client’s need/expectations, team roles, budgets and other things necessary to carry out the engagement. 

•    Understand the clients business, products, performance and accounting policies.

•    Adhere to the KPMG code of conduct and all KPMG risk management policies and procedures

•    Perform effective wrap-up of engagement, assisting manager/partner after leaving the field, clearing all review notes, assisting manager with report issuance/concurring review process, placing files to disks/network and complying with document retention policy, binding and filing work papers in the office.

PROFILE

Education requirements: 

•    Bachelor in Commerce or Completed A levels or equivalent

•    ACCA - Should have completed a minimum of 9 papers (F1-F9)

•    CPA – Complete 2 papers

•    ICAEW – Complete Professional Stage

Work experience requirements:

•    2yrs – 3yrs and above post graduate experience 

•    Knowledge in accounting concepts

•    Computer Literacy

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Big Data Solution Architect- KPMG, Dubai

 Big Data Solution Architect- KPMG, Dubai

Responsibilities:

Facilitate the establishment and execution of the roadmap and vision for information delivery and management, including the enterprise data warehouse, big data, BI & analytics, content management and data management

Propose and endorse the target data architecture and ensure its implementation and upkeep

Play a critical role in tools selection, implementation partner selection and on-boarding of key technical skills to ensure success of technical sub-initiatives including data quality and Master data management, ODS and DWH development, Data Marts, BI and Advanced analytics and legacy data migration to EDW

Lead Business Analysts, Data Engineers and Data Scientists to architect and deliver the solutions that fulfill the Business information needs and align with the information vision and strategy

Apply business strategy while driving technology strategy, balancing short term and long term needs to ensure that the architecture can scale and evolve accordingly

Engage an end-to-end approach by connecting all the pieces of data to deliver the data while leveraging all available assets

Provide advice, guidance and direction to carry out major plans and procedures to ensure schedule attainment, and performance and budget targets are met.

Qualifications:

Minimum 8 years of experience in enterprise data architecture, integration and analytics, with a proven track record of advising clients and delivering large projects in strategy, design and implementation of Data Warehouse, Big Data and Analytics solutions

Minimum 5 years leading a team including data engineers, data scientists and BI Developers.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or relevant field from an accredited college or university; Master’s degree from an accredited college or university preferred

Strong technical experience in the following:

Data Warehousing, BI and Big data Stack and solutions, including cloud technologies.

Data architecture, including data model design and implementation (incl. relational, dimensional, No-SQL)

Data Integration design and implementation (e.g. ETL, messaging, replication and APIs)

Deep hands-on experience with the following tools and technologies is preferred: Cloudera Distribution Hadoop, HP Vertica (Data Warehouse), Talend/Spark (Data Integration), Qlik (Reporting), Virtualization (Denodo) and Machine Learning (Python).

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Assistant Manager - Incident Response- KPMG, Dubai

 Assistant Manager - Incident Response- KPMG, Dubai

JOB DESCRIPTION

Manage and execute DFIR projects

Execute digital forensics and incident response projects cyber-security incidents as well as perform digital forensics (disk, volatile memory, network packets, logfiles)

Perform simulated/ tabletop cyber war gaming exercises to test for incident response readiness of clients.

Help develop and refine KPMG’s in-house cyber-response tools

Carry out vulnerability assessments and technical assessments including running penetration testing tools across application and network and assess and review results on affected systems

Ability to assess client incident response capability maturity

 

Experience & Qualifications:

5 to 8 years’ experience in Cyber response

CEH/ OSCP/OSCE/ GWAPT/LPT/GMOB/CISSP/CISM and other relevant certifications

 

Essential Skills:

 

Knowledge of evolving cyber threat landscape and relevant attacks

Experience across threat hunting/ compromise assessments

Strong IT and network skills – knowledge of common enterprise technologies – Windows and Linux OS, network devices, etc.

Proficient programming skill-sets to develop scripting tools.

Proficiency innetwork security/traffic/log analysis; Linux/Mac/Unix operating system disk forensics (ext2/3/4, HFS+, and/or APFS file systems), advanced memory forensics, static and dynamic malware analysis / reverse engineering, advanced mobile device forensics

Experience in industry computer forensic tools such as X-Ways, EnCase, FTK, Internet Evidence Finder (IEF) / AXIOM, TZWorks, and/or Cellebrite

Experience in preservation of digital evidence (including experience preserving cloud data and handling encryption such as BitLocker, FileVault, and/or LUKS)

Flawless communication skills in English. Arabic is beneficial.

Flexibility to travel

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Director - Deal Reporting- KPMG, Dubai

 Director - Deal Reporting- KPMG, Dubai

Reporting into the partner, this role will work on 

- transactions from an accounting side

- merger accounts

- prepare financial statements for carve outs, accounting work in a deal

To be considered for this role, you must -

- be educated upto a bachelors level in finance or equivalent

- possess MBA or equivalent from a reputable university

- be a qualified accountant 

- have similar experience in a leadership role, ideally in big4, within financial services and energy sector

- possess demonstrable conflic resolution skills

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