KPMG is a global network of professional services firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. Our purpose is to inspire confidence and empower change. We have a notable Africa Footprint serving clients across the continent. Our East Africa practice comprises Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Ethiopia.

The Nairobi office serves as the regional coordinating office providing the required networking to facilitate delivery of services on a timely basis to meet and exceed our clients’ expectations.
 

Position Summary

KPMG Financial Risk Management wish to recruit a Credit Risk Advisor to support with the delivery of credit risk related engagements for our financial services clients.


Key roles and responsibilities
The Credit Advisor will have the following responsibilities: 

• Assist in the development of a work plan, budget and quality plan to ensure efficiency, high performance and high-quality work on engagements.
• Maintaining a progress tracker of engagement milestones, tasks and deliverables. profit objectives and deliver designated engagement deliverables.
• Perform engagement recovery, quality risk management and administrative analysis. Undertake tasks as directed by engagement Manager. 
• Assisting in preparation of technical and commercial value propositions.
  
• Build an understanding of client business and markets to assist in the development of client relationships and developing a commercial mindset on how work performed impacts profitability at the engagement and practice levels.
• Manage pipeline and revenue as required, maintain a cross-selling value, meet individual targets and ensure proper billing and timely follow up.
• Supervise staff level engagement teams.
• Build industry knowledge through involvement in internal and external events, documenting and circulating articles and thought leadership.
• Any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

 

Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Actuarial, Financial engineering, Business, Engineering, Economics, Statistics, or related relevant degree course
• Must have 4 - 6 years of experience working in Financial Risk Management with a focus on Credit Risk. 
• Must have at least 3 years of experience working within and / or consulting for clients in the financial services sector (Banking & Insurance).
• Demonstrated experience in reviewing and/ or developing financial and credit risk models (IFRS 9 models, credit scorecards, stress testing models, operational models, etc.) 
• Good understanding of banking regulations across East Africa with a keen focus on regulatory capital regimes, capital and liquidity assessment programs, Basel guidelines, etc.
• Must have a relevant professional qualification such as FRM, ERM, ACCA, CFA, CPA . 
• Certifications in Stress Testing, ESG and climate risk would be an added advantage.
   

Technical competencies and Personal attributes:

• Exhibits commercial, technical and social awareness.
• Client focused delivery that is effective and efficient.
• Demonstrates creativity, agile performance and innovation in the way they work.
• Successful delivery of the risk initiatives as they arise.
• Ability to train and mentor team members on different tasks.
• Possess strong written, verbal and research skills with the ability to work well both autonomously and collaboratively.
• Resilience and Tenacity: must be able to always sustain motivation and commitment and can contain and absorb stressful moments and issues.
• Multicultural Skills: must be able to operate and interact in a multicultural environment and uphold cultural diversity; and
• Pragmatic Problem-Solving Skills: ability to handle and resolve unstructured problems and provide effective solutions or avenues for the solutions to come from other team members.
   

We offer:

• An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting edge clients across Africa. 
• Continuous learning and development.
• Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams.
• Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.

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If your career aspirations match this exciting opportunity, please use the link below to apply:

Credit Advisor (Financial Risk Management) – Candidate’s Summary. Filling the link is mandatory for consideration alongside your application to talentrecruit@kpmg.co.ke quoting ‘Credit Risk Advisor (FRM)’ by 29 June 2024.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.