Director, Audit Technology & Transformation | Strategy & Operations
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About the Role
KPMG Canada is seeking a Director of Audit Technology & Transformation to support the CTO in executing strategic priorities for audit technology. The role involves embedding technology initiatives, driving AI adoption, and managing business planning and project management.
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Responsibilities
- Support the annual business planning process, identifying and prioritizing required work effort to continually advance strategic pillars.
- Operationalize the Audit Technology strategy into clear priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans across all pillars.
- Ensure alignment between national priorities and regional priorities and execution, and transformation initiatives.
- Drive structured business planning cycles (annual, quarterly) tied to measurable outcomes.
- Develop and manage regular dashboard reporting mechanism to track progress, status of action items and risks of strategic initiatives.
- Project manage the portfolio of work to advance each respective strategic priority.
- Work directly with the CTO to develop and execute the Audit Technology and Transformation strategy and initiatives.
- Lead project management for the Audit Technology and Transformation team ensuring timelines and milestones are met.
Requirements
- Leader with experience in strategy, operations, or transformation within a complex, matrixed environment.
- Strong understanding of technology enabled transformation (e.g. data, AI, platforms).
- Experience supporting senior executives (e.g. CTO, COO, or equivalent).
- Superior Project and Stakeholder Management skills with strong organizational ability.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a consultative manner and deliver strategic ideas and solutions.
- Change leadership and organizational effectiveness expertise.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including good interpersonal skills.
- Strong presentation and facilitation skills.
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Overview
- At KPMG in Canada, our people bring their unique perspectives to Canada’s most important challenges.
- Reporting to Audit’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO), the Director of Audit Technology & Transformation | Strategy & Operations will work collaboratively with the CTO to support the effective execution of Audit’s Technology and Transformation strategic priorities.
What You Will Do – Strategy/Business Planning
- Supports the annual business planning process, identifying and prioritizing required work effort to continually advance our strategic pillars.
- Operationalize the Audit Technology strategy into clear priorities, roadmaps, and delivery plans across all pillars.
- Ensure alignment between national priorities and regional priorities and execution, and transformation initiatives.
- Drive structured business planning cycles (annual, quarterly) tied to measurable outcomes.
- Develops & manages regular dashboard reporting mechanism to track progress, status of action items and risks of strategic initiatives.
- Meets regularly with CTO and National Audit S&O Managing Director to ensure we are advancing at right pace.
- Sets up and manages the regular cadence for Audit Technology & Transformation leadership meetings.
- Project manages the portfolio of work to advance each respective strategic priority.
- Works fluidly with the priority owner/sponsor to identify and advance the 6 8 week, 6M and 12 18M desired outcomes.
- Creates work breakdown schedules to manage work streams and keep teams on track.
- Facilitates update meetings with key stakeholders and manages action items to drive progress.
What You Will Do – Audit Technology and Transformation
- Work directly with the CTO to develop, and execute the Audit Technology and Transformation strategy and initiatives for National Audit.
- Partner with Transformation Office and Change leads to ensure successful rollout and adoption of technologies and capabilities.
- Embed structured change management approaches across initiatives.
- Monitor adoption metrics and intervene where execution gaps exist.
- Work with the Lead and ensure proper implementation of technologies/product development for the Audit practice.
- Lead project management for the Audit Technology and Transformation team ensuring that timelines and milestones are adhered to.
- Provide support to the CTO to prioritize initiatives and continuously advance team objectives.
- Develop internal dashboards, benchmarks, and scorecards to track progress, status of action items and risks of strategic initiatives.
What You Bring To The Role
- Leader with experience in strategy, operations, or transformation within a complex, matrixed environment.
- Strong understanding of technology enabled transformation (e.g. data, AI, platforms).
- Experience supporting senior executives (e.g. CTO, COO, or equivalent).
- Clear understanding of functional and regional business priorities.
- Superior Project and Stakeholder Management skills with strong organizational ability.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a consultative manner and deliver strategic ideas and solutions.
- Change leadership and organizational effectiveness expertise, ability to act as a change agent and integrator.
- Ability to resolve conflict and work under pressure and prioritize competing demands.
- Highly motivated and takes initiative.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including good interpersonal skills.
- Strong presentation and facilitation skills.
Pay Range Information
- The expected base salary range for this position in Ontario is CAD 122,000 to CAD 162,500.
- The expected base salary range for this position in BC is CAD 115,000 to CAD 150,000.
- May be eligible for bonus awards.
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