Job Vacancies at KPMG Nigeria – 5 Positions

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time
Sector: Oil and Gas

Overview

• Our Client is looking for a Head, Commercial within the company. The Person will plan, develop and implement commercial strategies that focus on generating revenue, maximising opportunities for profit, and creating sustainable growth for the Company.
• The position is responsible for ensuring that the business has a steady pipeline of opportunities and that these opportunities are translated into viable projects.

Job Description

• Participate in the articulation of the organisation’s strategic plans and in translating same into annual programs, initiative, and plans.
• Develop clear functional plans, strategies, and tactics in line with overarching corporate strategic direction ensuring proper communication to team members.
• Conduct market research and analysis to create detailed business plans on commercial opportunities (expansion, business development etc.) as well as to understand threats.
• Manage existing client relationships - understanding their requirements, ensuring their needs are met.
• Ensure that all offers made are technically sound and that gaps and complexities are identified and duly addressed.
• Ascertain that all contracts are profitable and entered on terms that guarantee reasonable /projected return on investment (ROI).
• Continually review commercial processes and approaches and adapt to reflect client needs and improve conversion opportunities. Role must actively review proposal submissions, understand limitations from projects not won as well as key lessons and ensure these are addressed to improve subsequent performances.
• Stay in-tune with trends within the sector particularly as it pertains to new opportunities, gather insights and make appropriate recommendations to the business.
• Collaborate with and coordinate diverse teams (e.g. business development, costing, bidding and tendering).
• Negotiate ongoing contracts with suppliers and customers; manage and review contracts and make recommendations regarding commerciality.
• Track, measure and analyse performance of commercial activities using key metrics and reporting to senior management.
• Establish and maintain long-term, profitable partnerships with key stakeholders.
• Monitor the Nigerian Content submission and ensure compliance with existent laws related to Nigerian content and directly associated matters.
• Provide broad leadership and strategic and operational guidelines to the commercial team. Ensure that the relevant capabilities are developed in team members on an ongoing basis.
• Participate in strategic projects/committees (as necessary) ensuring effective contribution towards the realization of agreed objectives.
• Undertake special projects as directed by the MD.

Key Performance Indicators
Business Development:

• Quality of Negotiated Agreements.
• Effectiveness of Tendering Processes in Securing Contracts.

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Financial:

• Percentage increase in Revenue/Turnover in each time period.
• Business Performance against Industry Benchmarks.

Customer:

• Percentage of Customer Satisfaction.
• High level of awareness of the Brand.

Business Process:

• Rate of improvement of Business Processes.
• Percentage Achievement of Organisational Mission/Vision.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Economics, Development Management, Project Management or related professional discipline.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in EPC, Oil & Gas, or related industry with at least 5 years in Senior Management Commercial position
• Membership of relevant professional bodies.
• Very deep knowledge of the broader sector and the sub sector within which the business plays. Role must have a strong appreciation of market dynamics, opportunities, threats, limitations, regulations etc. and how these can be effectively managed or harnessed by the business.
• Excellent knowledge and understanding of legal and financial aspects of EPCOM businesses.
• Role holder must possess very strong business and commercial acumen and entrepreneurial mindset. Ideal candidate must be strategic , understanding trends and how this can be anticipated and leveraged to curate a competitive advantage for the business.
• Ability to demonstrate sound analytical and critical reasoning skills and can apply data analysis/thinking to understand situations and make informed decisions.
• Ability to identify problems, determine possible solutions and actively work to resolve the issues.
• Role requires very strong communication and interpersonal abilities to successfully manage relationships with key clients and stakeholders.
• Strong relationship and stakeholder management skills. Role holder must be adept at managing across stakeholder groups and must be able to rapidly develop a strong and beneficial relationship network at strategic levels.
• Ability to effectively manage and deliver on multiple priorities.
• Very strong organizational and execution skills.
• Strong influencing, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Proven ability to work in multi-cultural environment and collaborate across multiple areas in a cooperative and respectful manner to achieve a common business objective.
• Skillful in the adoption and application of innovative methods to implement strategy and manage change.
• Ability to gather and understand financial and non-financial information to develop complete knowledge of the client business and the environment in which it operates.
• Able to identify and advise on business partnering to develop strategic relationships that create opportunities, improve performance, and solve business problems.
• Adequate knowledge of risk management for the best interests of the organisation and its stakeholders.
• Good Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate, and enhance performance within a cross – functional environment.
• Must be courageous in taking hard decisions consistent with personal convictions and in the overall interest of the Company,
• High level of resilience, determination and creativity- all channelled towards ensuring opportunities deliver/ exceed performance expectations.
• Must exhibit high energy level – self-starter.
• Demonstrable maturity, pragmatic, and flexible approach with strong commercial judgement.
• Must be a creative strategist with excellent organizational abilities.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full Time
Sector: Oil and Gas

Overview

• Our client is looking for a Head Projects who will lead and direct cross-functional teams responsible for delivering projects on time, maintaining budget, and delivering quality results.
• The role oversees the planning, organization, execution, and monitoring of various projects in line with agreed service expectations and propositions.
• The role is responsible for developing specialised project capabilities and ensuring that the business is able to seamlessly execute complex and routine projects.

Job Description

• Participate in the articulation of the overall business strategy and plan as well as the translation of these plans into function implications.
• Take ownership for the development of plans, programs, and initiatives to be executed by the projects team in line with the overall business strategy and agenda.
• Communicate the business and functional plans to team members ensuring proper understanding of implications and expectations across board.
• Work closely with the BD/Commercial team to identify, respond to and negotiate opportunities. Provide critical inputs in the contract development stages.
• Ensure proper translation of awarded contracts/agreements into detailed work plans and packages. Oversee the assignment of responsibilities, the establishment and mobilization of the project team
• Oversee the instatement of relevant project delivery protocols including the agreements of performance expectations and the monitoring of project performance on an on-going basis.
• Define project start-up priorities and instigate generation of lower-level plans and deliverable
• documents by the team.
• Ensure the institution and maintenance of effective Quality, Health, Safety and Environmental standards across projects, drive compliance through proactive monitoring, anticipation, and mitigation of safety risks.
• Work closely with various stakeholder groups ensuring proper engagement with a view to ensure sustained and mutually beneficial interactions.
• Manage key client relations and interfaces. Manage existing relations and, identify and onboard new strategic relationships.
• Oversee management of all project economics ensuring alignment with plan and project profitability objectives.
• Ensure adherence to agreed change control protocol and proper sign off on and documentation of variations prior to commitment.
• Provide strategic leadership and guidance to team, ensuring effective management of team dynamics and performance.
• Stay in tune with relevant trends, ensuring key opportunities and impact points are transmitted to appropriate parties in the business.
• Continually refine processes with a view to drive continuous improvement and value to the client and business.
• Work closely with HR to ensure concerted effort to develop critical discriminating competencies in the projects team.

Key Performance Indicators
Operations:

• Consistent delivery of projects along established parameters and guidelines
• Effectiveness of Improvement Changes made on Business Processes
• Business Performance against Industry Benchmarks
• Expertise delivered in accomplishing complex Project Objectives
• Ability to manage remote project personnel satisfactorily.

Financial:

• Percentage increase in booked margin on completed projects
• Business Performance against Industry Benchmarks

Customer:

• Customer Satisfaction Levels

Business Process:

• Rate of improvement of Business Processes
• Percentage Achievement of Organisational Mission/Vision.

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Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Business Administration or equivalent from an accredited university
• Minimum of 10 years of post-qualification experience; 5 of which must have been spent at Strategic level in project management.
• EPC, Oil & Gas, or relevant industry experience
• Exposure to high capital value projects in a multi-disciplined environment
• Membership of relevant professional bodies including either of Prince 2 or PMP certifications
• Significant Project, Construction, Field Engineering and/or Contract Management experience in EPCOM industry and a deep understanding of sector dynamics, competitive forces, etc.
• Exceptional program/project management skills.
• Demonstrable ability to drive results and accountability of business needs.
• Strong business and financial acumen.
• Advanced skills in customer relationship building, facilitation, and matrix management.
• Demonstrable skill in creating and managing budgets including justification, prioritization, optimization, forecasting, and reporting.
• Excellent organizational and leadership skills to manage a large, diverse team of technical managerial/supervisory, professional, and support staff.
• Superior ability to analyze and troubleshoot complex problems and make sound decisions.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Detail orientated and work in a time-conscious and time-effective manner.
• Sound Conflict Resolution, Coaching & Mentoring skills
• In-depth technical knowledge of product lines and associated systems.
• Microsoft Suite Proficiency.
• Ability to anticipate events and develop adaptive strategies / remedies.
• Knowledge and experience working with Regulators and site audits.
• Good Interpersonal skills to influence and spur change, facilitate, and enhance performance within a cross – functional environment.
• Must be courageous in taking hard decisions consistent with personal convictions and in the overall interest of the Company,
• High level of resilience, determination and creativity- all channelled towards ensuring opportunities deliver/ exceed performance expectations.
• Must exhibit high energy level – self-starter.
• Demonstrable maturity, pragmatic, and flexible approach with strong commercial judgement.
• Must be a creative strategist with excellent organizational abilities.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Sector: Facilities Services

Overview

• Our client is seeking a qualified personnel who will be responsible for providing overall HR strategic direction and coordinating the achievement of the organisation’s strategic goals in accordance with their aims and objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in any discipline.
• Professional qualification in HR Management e.g., Senior Professional in HR (SPHR), Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM).
• Minimum of 10 - 12 years’ relevant professional experience with at least 4 years in management (Facility Management background is an advantage).

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Skills and Capabilities:

• Oversee and ensure efficient management of the company’s Human Capital to build a highly skilled, motivated and engaged workforce, to support the achievement of corporate strategic objectives.
• Champion adherence to approved best practices in Human Resource Management & Administration policies, procedures, and processes and ensure the entrenchment of corporate culture and values.
• Good understanding of trends, challenges, opportunities, regulations and legislations relating to the facility management industry.
• In-depth knowledge and experience in human resource management principles, processes and techniques covering areas such as organisation development, manpower planning, recruitment, learning and development, performance management, career management, reward and recognition, retention and exit management.
• Good appreciation of local and global industry human resource management best practices.
• Good understanding of employee/industrial relations, as well as an appreciation of the dynamics of the labour and employment legislations in Nigeria.
• Strong strategic planning, problem solving and execution skills.
• Strong leadership, supervisory, coaching, mentoring and people management skills.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills with an ability to engage with others to achieve positive results.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport across various stakeholders and effectively communicate and interact with top level management.
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism and confidentiality
• In-depth knowledge of corporate governance and general management best practices.

Application Closing Date
21st May, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Sector: Facilities Services

Overview

• Our client is seeking a qualified personnel who will be responsible for innovating business operations to improve productivity, reducing bottlenecks, enhancing operations effectiveness and overall work output to ensure higher customer satisfaction with the resources at hand.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or its equivalent in any discipline.
• MBA/M.Sc. in Business, Economics, etc. an added advantage
• Relevant Professional qualifications, ISO9001, Lean Six Sigma, HSE etc.
• Previous experience as a facility manager will be an added advantage
• Minimum of 10 - 12 years’ relevant professional experience with at least 6 years in management (Facility Management background is an advantage).

Skills and Capabilities:

• Oversee the formulation of policies and standard operating procedures in line with company strategy and business goals
• Ensure complete compliance and on-going improvements to best practices for technical and operational support processes
• Formulate and implement necessary changes to people, processes and tools to continuously increase efficiency, improve quality and eliminate operational bottlenecks.
• Establish, plan and provide for current and future resource/capacity requirements
• Ensure on-going benchmarking and improvement of core skills across various units within the team
• Ensure the availability of technical and business-related documentation required for the smooth functioning of all functions within the team
• Maintain safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations and ensure these standards are kept in the delivery of our services.
• Strong strategic planning, problem solving and execution skills.
• Strong leadership, supervisory, coaching, mentoring and people management skills.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills with an ability to engage with others to achieve positive results.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build rapport across various stakeholders and effectively communicate and interact with top level management.
• Ability to act with integrity, professionalism and confidentiality
• In-depth knowledge of corporate governance and general management best practices.

Application Closing Date
21st May, 2021.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time
Sector: Financial Services

Overview

• The Head, Internal Audit, Risk & Compliance has overall responsibility for the Internal Audit, Risk & Compliance function.
• The position is responsible for ensuring internal audit, risk management, and compliance activities are closely aligned with global best practices in executing the duties across the Company’s business and financial operations.
• He/she works to ensure roles, responsibilities, and results are efficiently coordinated and optimised to ensure the effectiveness of internal audit, risk management, and control matters.

Responsibilities
Internal Audit:

• Lead Internal Audit’s change initiatives by implementing action plans related to risk assessment and annual audit planning, audit execution, audit reporting, audit staff recruiting and development, audit technology, and Board reporting.
• Oversee the execution of individual audits defined in the audit plan ensuring the highest level of service quality and client satisfaction.
• Obtain approval of the risk-based annual audit plan from the Board. §Issue all Internal Audit reports ensuring the reports are clear, concise, identify root causes with practical solutions, and ultimately provide value to management.
• Meet regularly with the Board to report the status of Internal Audit’s ongoing monitoring activities, educate/inform the Board of emerging risks and/or exposures (whether internal or external to the company) that should be considered, and serve as a “thought leader” with respect to risk management and internal control best practices.
• Manage the process to track, follow-up, and ultimately close all open audit issues leveraging the Board, if necessary.
• Oversee Internal Audit’s participation in critical business and technology initiatives and projects ensuring that the audit’s perspective is effectively voiced and appropriate controls are designed and implemented on a proactive basis.
• Maintain audit technology platform leveraging support from the information systems group as needed.
• Coordinate the activities of external auditors including how best to leverage the work performed and results produced from Internal Audit’s work.
• Actively participate in executive management meetings and/or committees to ensure that Internal Audit is well-informed of key business developments that could have an impact on audit priorities and/or plans.
• Ensure that Internal Audit is performing its work in accordance with established professional standards and remain abreast of emerging trends and best practices that can be incorporated into the function.

Risk Management and Compliance:

• Facilitate development of an appropriate risk strategy and appetite of the organisation. Lead the annual risk assessment and planning process to develop the risk-based audit plan and ensure the plan is responsive to and aligned with the risk profile of the Company.
• Proactively inform senior management of significant risks or exposures related to internal controls, compliance, and/or governance requiring prompt attention.
• Facilitate continuous identification and periodic assessment of business risks in the operating environment and update the risk registers.
• Monitor and report on key risk indicators (KRIs) and implementation of risk mitigation strategies. §Design and implement an Internal Control Framework.
• Manage and oversee internal control activities.

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Others:

• Attract, hire and retain a team of high-performing professionals who possess outstanding knowledge, experience, ethics, and integrity.
• Maintain the whistleblowing channels of the Company and provide periodic reports to the Board.
• Conduct investigations on reported cases of fraud and misconduct and prepare investigation reports.
• Work with human resources to develop and implement a sanctions grid.
• Work with business functions to identify process gaps arising from weak or inadequate business process documentation.
• Create and implement policies to maintain a sound ethical culture within the Company.
• Serve as the key point person on all regulatory exams and other third-party audits.
• Ensure firm-wide Policy/Procedure/Regulatory Compliance.
• Maintain an efficient working relationship with relevant external auditors and regulators e.g. SON, etc.
• Make recommendation for policy amendments based on emerging issues/risks.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of IARC personnel.

Qualifications
Minimum Education Qualifications:

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Accounting or related discipline §Relevant postgraduate degree and or professional qualifications such as – CIA, QIAL, ICAN, CRMA, ACA, ACCA etc.

Work Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of ten (10) years verified professional experience in internal audit or its equivalent with at least 3 years in managerial capacity.

General:

• Oral and written communication skills
• Ability to promote value of internal audit Organisational skills
• Change management skills
• Strategic thinking and problem solving ability
• Conflict resolution and negotiation skills.

Technical:

• Multi disciplinary disposition
• Policy and regulatory knowledge interpretation and application (IPPF, etc.)
• Business acumen §Project managemnent
• ISO/quality knowledge §Working knowledge of: Microsoft office suite oIT/ICT and tech-based audit techniques; Data collection and analysis tools and techniques; Accounting frameworks, tools and techniques; Governance risk and control tools and techniques; Risk analysis and control assessment techniques
• General operations
• Forensic skills and fraud awareness.

Skill / Competencies

• Leadership
• Integrity
• Confidentiality
• Objectivity
• Attention to details
• Performance under pressure
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Multi tasking disposition
• Independent minded
• Persuasion and Collaboration

Key Performance Indicators:

• Adequacy of the internal audit plan
• Level of execution/achievement against the IARC plan
• Accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of reports
• Number and significance of issues/ inconsistencies and process improvement opportunities identified in business processes
• Frequency of incidences of control failure
• Adequacy and timeliness of follow-up on regulatory and statutory filings
• Magnitude of calculated losses due to fraud and other control failures
• Number or frequency of queries
• Number of unresolved cases to identified issues
• Number of control improvements implemented annually in line with best practice recommendation
• Decline in code of conduct violations reported via the whistleblowing channels
• Number of whistleblowing cases closed out
• Turnaround time for cases under investigation
• Staff attrition rate
• Other KPIs as may be defined in line with changing business environment.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

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