Associate Director or Director, Risk Management-Digital Office

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KPMG is currently seeking a Director Risk to join our Management Risk Management Digital Office organization.

Responsibilities:

• Assume a strategic and proactive approach for ensuring technology alignment with the business objectives and the firm's overall technology strategy
• Act as main point of contact for strategic technology planning for the leads of a particular business function, with an eye towards business process improvement, by obtaining deep understanding of business, establishing technology roadmaps and effectively managing the pipeline portfolio
• Steer overall business expectations, perceptions and support ongoing two-way communication of technology strategies, priorities, and governance; understand the business strategy, processes, and decision makers to participate in prioritization for delivery and execution teams
• Develop solid business relationships, to become a trusted advisor with key leaders and stakeholders to proactively support business objectives
• Partner closely with business stakeholders to outline technology fiscal planning and be accountable for overall technology spend; contribute to IT program organization development of best practices, methodologies, key performance indicators, and metrics to demonstrate value offered within specific support areas to effectively improve business and IT engagement

Qualifications:

• Minimum ten years of recent relevant experience in business, technology consulting services, operations and business processes
• Bachelor's degree or Master's degree from an accredited college or university in business administration, computer science, or a related field
• Well-versed in technology, strategy development and implementation; creative thinker with the ability to identify innovative business solutions; capability to develop and execute multi-faceted business plans that incorporate understanding of the firm's overall business mission, objectives, and tactics; outstanding verbal/written communication, collaboration, presentation, and negotiation skills to lead an environment driven by customer service and teamwork
• Capability to building strong professional relationships with the ability to influence all levels across the organization; ability to foster the development of high-performance teams; must be able to set and execute strategic initiatives for team; experience leading a geographically dispersed team; capacity to develop strategic organization and resource plans, defining next generation business and leadership needs
• Ability to bring innovative thinking, making recommendations with awareness of enterprise and market technology trends; proficient in tracking/monitoring and forecasting budgets
• Familiarity with software requirements definition including Agile methods

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