The role also includes opportunities to deliver client presentations, contribute to thought leadership, work on business development, assist with project management and coach members of the team. The team is based in Canary Wharf, London at KPMG’s UK headquarters, working at client’s offices in the City and West End for most projects. There is occasional overseas travel with recent projects in Hong Kong, Toronto and Seattle.
- Deliver high quality advisory and assurance engagements to a range of firms including top-tier global asset managers, hedge funds and fund manager start-ups.
- Helped a global provider of indices and data services with their benchmark assurance review. This project covered the governance framework, and design and operating effectiveness of controls relating to index administration and calculation activities.
- Worked with an investment manager to help them integrate multiple local offices in other countries under a single combined global GIPS firm definition. This involved looking at consistency of policies and procedures, identifying overlap of investment strategies and helping bring local offices which had not previously claimed GIPS compliance into the global GIPS firm.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, including an ability to communicate well with clients in writing and verbally especially at senior levels.