We understand that careers are no longer linear. We are committed to providing our people with opportunities to move across our organisation into new areas of the business to utilise their skills in different ways, whilst keeping them in the KPMG whanau.
These opportunities can also include secondments across the NZ firm and our global KPMG member firms, as well as permanent relocation options.
We are dedicated to fostering an environment that values and supports performance development, ensuring that our employees can thrive and grow.
Hear from our people
Career Mobility - Emma
Hear Emma talk about her internal move from our Tax Compliance team to our People, Performance and Culture team.
Career Mobility - Josh
Josh shares his experience moving from Tauranga to Auckland and transferring teams within KPMG.
Career Mobility - Pavlina
Pavlina shares her experience with our Global Mobility programme and more about her move from Audit to Deal Advisory.
Future skills
Our focus on skills ensures our people have the capability to deliver quality work and outcomes for our client, whilst building their skills for their careers and the future. We have a comprehensive learning experience platform that is fully customised based on our employees skills, role and interests for them to create their own learning journey.
Learning programmes
We empower our employees by offering diverse learning pathways to expedite their career advancement and professional growth. Our people have access to an extensive library of bespoke learning programmes that span topics of leadership, business development, core skills and more.
This programme recognsises the need for us to continue our work in the diversity space, and have our senior leaders take on sponsorship roles to ensure our leadership pipeline reflects the diverse makeup of Aotearoa. Our senior Partners sponsor our diverse talent and advocate for them to enter leadership positions. The programme focuses on leveraging our diverse leaders, creating a pool of sponsors within the business to elevate and instil confidence in our future leaders and educate our current leadership on the experience of employees from different backgrounds. We were a proud finalist in the 2023 Diversity Awards for this programme.
The KPMG Mentoring Programme has been running for over 7 years and is a flagship programme with many of our senior leaders in our mentor pool. It allows our people to capitalise on their personal and professional strengths through the process of reflection and discussion with a senior mentor. Mentees are matched with a senior leader in the firm across a year long programme of mentoring sessions.
Professional qualifications
We are supportive of our employees to developing their career through undertaking a professional qualification. We support our people towards attainment of professional qualifications including subsidised fees, paid study leave, learning resources and a professional association membership each year.
KPMG supports a wide variety of professional qualifications including our main qualifications, CAANZ, CPA and Law Professionals. We also support ongoing professional development for other memberships, papers and qualifications in areas such as HR, Institute of Directors and Microsoft.
Online learning
Our people have the ability to develop skills and capabilities to succeed, grow and build their career.
Our people can champion and drive their own learning experience using Degreed, a single access point for all learning with the latest resources, learning pathways and digital accreditations.
KPMG has digital badges that recognise our people increasing their skills in specific areas identified as important for the future. Once awarded, a digital badge can be shared externally.
Performance development
To enhance our employees’ experience, we focus on continuous development conversations with staff performance managers and place great emphasis on regular feedback to enable our people to grow.
Our formal annual performance cycle commences with goal setting at the beginning of the calendar year and concludes with a year-end review in December.
Benefits
Alumni
Discover what KPMG alumni have to say about the invaluable skills and experience gained during their time with us.
I joined the KPMG Tax team in 2005 as a graduate and spent 10.5 years with the firm before joining Fletcher Building Group at the start of 2016 as the Corporate Tax Manager. In 2018, I was promoted into the General Manager role, and I currently lead a tax and payroll team across Australia and New Zealand.
During my time at KPMG, I was given opportunities to develop my technical tax skills as well as people, client, and stakeholder management skills. Being able to deal directly with clients and be responsible for day to day issues helped strengthen my ability to connect with different people and be comfortable with making decisions on how the tax law applied. Moving to Fletcher Building Group, which has over 25 major operating businesses within NZ alone, and stakeholders ranging from individual finance teams through to divisional CFOs, meant I could draw on that expertise to effectively perform in my role.
One of the biggest changes I noted between professional services and working inside a corporate is the need to change your mindset from simply advising to being accountable for the advice – following through from problem identification to problem solving, to ensuring the solution is implemented correctly.
There is also a need for practicality and commerciality when working in a corporate. Fletcher’s Group Tax function does not exist in isolation but must work alongside other corporate functions like Finance, Treasury and Strategy, collectively delivering a solution to a business problem. I found KPMG put a strong emphasis on being not just a tax advisor to clients but a business partner, encouraging me to think outside of just tax and considering the wider business when proposing solutions, which was a huge help in transitioning into my corporate role.
I was part of the KPMG whānau for 7 years and led consulting engagements for a diverse client portfolio across a range of private and publicly funded organisations and trusts throughout New Zealand.
I was a trustee of Nōna Te Ao for several years and this year stepped into the CFO role full time. My role spans design and delivery of our programmes directly to rural rangatahi Māori, building partnerships and driving team performance. Nōna Te Ao’s key objective is to empower our rangatira mō āpōpō, leaders of tomorrow, by providing an opportunity for rangatahi to understand how they can use their innate skills to enhance the prospects for Māori and for their own whānau.
Nōna Te Ao’s aim is to provide their people with equitable educational and employment outcomes and improve the socio-economic status of our iwi and regions, allowing our rangatahi to have fulfilling careers at home (noho te kāinga) is our core priority.
KPMG is where I started my career, instilling in me everything I needed to step into the CFO role. The experience I gained from my time at KPMG ranges from understanding the funding landscape, writing successful applications, navigating partnerships, building networks and diverse revenue streams. KPMG gave me the foundations to demonstrate value to Nōna Te Ao’s partners, be able grow the charity sustainably and deliver on our vision.
