**Business Title:** Associate Director, EPMO and Portfolio Management
**Requisition Number:** 93606 - 19
**Function:** Business Support Services
**Area of Interest:**
**State:** CT
**City:** Stamford
**Description:**
Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, Diversity Inc. and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team.
KPMG is currently seeking an Associate Director, EPMO and Portfolio Management to join our Digital Nexus technology organization.
Responsibilities:
+ Responsible for helping drive technical outcomes and managing a team of junior and intermediate employees that perform within set technical guidelines and standard operating procedures; Set goals, offer feedback, source developmental opportunities and provide long-term career guidance to counselees and others across the department; integrate new team members and connect them to the resources and opportunities to help further their development and career goals
+ Regularly engage with counselees and those they work with to help them continuously improve; Work to increase counselees' engagement, job satisfaction and pride; be a role model for doing the right things and treating people the right way; responsible for assigning the right people to the right projects at the right time within budget and timelines; ensure team members have skills and tools to perform their jobs, acting as point of escalation to leadership
+ Focus is blended between execution and tactical planning and participation in strategic planning; contribute to tactical plans and monitor progress; responsible for championing alignment to the applicable strategies and adherence to them, the related commitments, the budget and management of the risk
+ Contributor to innovation that has impact and creates a high financial, client value and efficiency impact within projects or department; use advanced technical expertise to execute work product, tactical and strategic planning; interact regularly with management within the department and staff across the support/functional process; influence client expectations and provide appropriate alternatives, suggestions and recommendations for improvements; ensuring goals and objectives are met
+ Build and maintain business engagement through positive and trust-based relationships with business partners, stakeholders and practice leaders and partner with business leaders to understand their technology needs; support the Journey Partner and leads to coordinate and communicate new demand that comes into IT to the appropriate stakeholders (e.g., architecture, security, development, data) to improve speed of IT's response rate; work closely with delivery teams during the planning phase to ensure customers' needs are appropriately addressed, leading to successful project execution when transitioned to project delivery teams
+ Liaise with the Journey Partner to shape and implement the demand management processes consistently across Functional IT groups; capture new demand and ensure structured and high quality of demand's scope and specification in order to have a consistent basis for estimation and scheduling of the implementation
Qualifications:
+ Minimum eight years of recent experience with project, program or portfolio management; ability to see the customers' point of view with a service-oriented mindset
+ Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university
+ Strong verbal/written communication, with ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority; must be able to prioritize, delegate and foster the development of high-performance teams to lead/support an environment driven by customer service and teamwork; strong trouble-shooting and organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
+ Demonstrated ability to influence, educate and interact with diverse leaders and teams across the organization; ability to manage multiple complex concurrent programs, applying deep expertise to make strategic decisions that impact the technology organization and the firm
+ Outstanding verbal/written communication, collaboration, negotiation and influencing skills to lead an environment driven by customer service and teamwork; ability to direct, motivate and empower others to work towards the organization's goals, ensuring efficient allocation of resources across multiple functions; ensure execution of strategic initiatives for the organization; ability to address emerging opportunities and how organization should be organized/staffed to realize them; ability to manage change and effectively communicate to teams; advanced knowledge of the broader scope that frames the essential technical area of work with ability to use this knowledge to create incremental value; knowledge in strategic solution delivery models to ensure products and/or services continue to innovate and to drive continuous improvement
+ Excellent verbal/written communication, collaboration, analytical and presentation skills to lead an environment driven by customer service and teamwork; must be able to set goals and participate in strategic initiatives for a team; and foster the development of high-performance teams and interface with all levels of the organization; ability to participate in development of resource plans and structures and influence organizational priorities
KPMG LLP (the U.S. member firm of KPMG International) offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. KPMG is an affirmative action-equal opportunity employer. KPMG complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. The attached link ( https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/us/pdf/2018/09/eeo.pdf) contains further information regarding the firm's compliance with federal, state and local recruitment and hiring laws. No phone calls or agencies please.
KPMG does not currently require partners or employees to be fully vaccinated or test negative for COVID-19 in order to go to KPMG offices, client sites or KPMG events, except when mandated by federal, state or local law. In some circumstances, clients also may require proof of vaccination or testing (e.g., to go to the client site).
**GL:** 4
**GF:** 15310
