Senior Specialist, Value Architect

KPMG Advisory practice is currently our fastest growing practice. We are seeing tremendous client demand, and looking forward we do not anticipate that slowing down. In this ever-changing market environment, our professionals must be adaptable and thrive in a collaborative, team-driven culture. At KPMG, our people are our number one priority. With a wealth of learning and career development opportunities, a world-class training facility and leading market tools, we make sure our people continue to grow both professionally and personally. If you're looking for a firm with a strong team connection where you can be your whole self, have an impact, advance your skills, deepen your experiences, and have the flexibility and access to constantly find new areas of inspiration and expand your capabilities, then consider a career in Advisory.

KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Specialist, Value Architect to join our Managed Services practice.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the end-to-end pricing lifecycle for managed services opportunities, ensuring accurate effort estimations, creative pricing strategies, and effective leadership communication on risk/reward outlook
• Collaborate with a diverse set of stakeholders across Sales, Solution Management, and Delivery on each opportunity to populate the Estimating Models and Pricing Models and run all required scenarios to ensure the team is aligned on approach; manage a team of resources both onshore and offshore to ensure accurate estimating and pricing is being completed and internal client satisfaction standards are being met
• Present each opportunity to leadership for pricing approval and ensure pricing is accurately put into proposal and contract
• Coordinate with delivery teams to gather actual delivery data to create a benchmarking database to analyze if initial estimating assumptions were accurate
• Update internal databases with what was purposed, gather market intelligence for win/loss analysis, and coordinate with Delivery, Resource Management, as well as Finance and Accounting teams to provide data from each opportunity pursued
• Engage with Solution Management and Delivery leads to understand the unique delivery process to develop new Estimating Model tools that document the process, the people, and the technology required
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold KPMG's respectful and courteous work environment
  
  

Qualifications:

• Minimum three years of recent experience in in finance, accounting, pricing, or consulting with prior pricing experience at a professional services firm (such as a Big four) or managed service provider is preferred
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university in business, finance, or accounting, with a Master's degree from an accredited college/university in business administration, finance, or STEM is preferred
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills with experience creating and managing complex financial models; proficiency in Microsoft suite of applications
• Skilled with Alteryx, Tableau, or Power BI; ability to create dashboards leveraging large collections of data
• Experience mentoring and managing direct reports
• Familiarity/understanding of professional services specific to Financial Services, Cyber Security Services, Risk Services, Technology Maintenance services
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)
  
  

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