Project Manager

Robert Walters are excited to be representing a Top 10 accountancy practice, based in Manchester city centre on a permanent basis. We are seeking an experienced person to work within the Project Management Centre of Excellence in the Audit Practice to provide Project Management support to audit and assurance engagements that support the delivery of effective and high-quality work.

Key Responsibilities include:

•Developing strong, trusting and credible working relationships with senior staff on engagements, and other key business stakeholders where applicable
•Working with Engagement Leaders and Audit Managers, co-ordinate activities on the planning of audits to ensure KPMG planning requirements and deadlines are achieved
•Setting project timelines and tracking the team's progress against those goals
•Working with Audit Managers, optimise the use of resources including KGS offshore and improve efficiency in audit delivery
•Hold Audit Managers/Senior Managers to account for the delivery of their audits
•Ensuring effective audit governance through the regular reporting of audit progress, achievement of milestones, changes to agreed delivery plan and delivery risks/issues
•Identification and tracking of interdependencies between key pieces of work being delivered on the engagement.
•Development and delivery of required executive reporting at various levels.
•Implementation of relevant systems and tools to support the delivery of work for the engagement.
•Providing and organising quality assurance reviews and health checks to ensure work is being undertaken to a sufficiently high standard.

Essential requirements:
•Ability to work positively with the wide range of individuals and stakeholders involved in audit planning and delivery.
•Capable of developing and maintaining effective working relationships with members of Transformation and Managed Services team, Senior Managers, Directors, Partners, project teams and 3rd party service providers.
•Demonstrates strong leadership and management skills to be capable of managing the PMO
•Clear knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring, data analysis, reporting etc., including risk management.
•Good knowledge and demonstrable use of project and programme management methodology and techniques Good understanding of the audit quality objectives.
•Good understanding of risk based resource allocation
•Experience of budgeting and resource allocation procedures.
•Experience of working in a Professional Services environment would be advantageous.
•Demonstrable PMO expertise with experience of having set-up and evolved PMO capabilities are desirable as well as the ability to maintain a high quality BAU service.

If you're interested in this role, please apply here or send your CV to amy.hartley@robertwalters.com