Business Title: Sr. Associate, Data Analytics ConsultantRequisition Number: 116918 - 58Function: AdvisoryArea of Interest:State: NJCity: MontvaleDescription:We are The Lighthouse within KPMG's Consulting practice. We tap into the power of emerging technologies and scientific breakthroughs to create solutions and products that address the largest and most complex issues faced by global companies. By blending technology with our industry expertise, we're able to harness the potential of Cloud, AI, ML, IoT, 5G, and quantum computing to design and implement real-world solutions for a variety of business problems. Work with confidence knowing your ideas are heard and backed by one of the world's top professional services firms. Spark your curiosity and ignite your career at The Lighthouse.KPMG is currently seeking a Sr. Associate in Technology Enablement for our Consulting (https://advisory.kpmg.us/) practice.Responsibilities:
Bring strong sector- and/or business-process-specific knowledge to bear for D&A strategy, transformation, or solution design engagements; focused on helping clients understand the broader D&A journey and implications, and helping engagement teams understand domain context required for delivering meaningful and effective insights from D&A solutions; Gather client and market information through interviews, surveys, workshops, and market research; realize requirements, styles and preferences for visualizations within sectors of expertise; managers in this role may have some opportunity to assist in the overseeing the design, management, execution, and implementation of complex analytics models.
Assess, capture and translate complex business needs and existing organization D&A maturity levels into a structured strategy for D&A capability development, including role and process design, analytics use case ideation and technology road mapping with the ability to explain data & analytics concepts to non-technical team members
Proactively broaden and deepen client relationships by working with varying levels of client team members and utilize a hypothesis-driven, problem-solving approach to design and review with clients all aspects of an organization-specific D&A target operating model
Research and communicate sector or process-specific data and D&A solution design requirements, including building such design requirements into targeted visualizations
Apply data & analytics concepts to business problems with an understanding of how applying these concepts can provide business value; design, host and debrief a variety of information gathering exercises as part of D&A strategy and transformation readiness evaluations; for example, collaborative workshops and ideation sessions, 1:1 leadership interviews, survey design and execution and external market research
Support project leaders in tracking and communicating project risks, budget, rates and launch/closeout activities; including the administration of work papers and collaboration sites (shared with D&A Modelers and D&A Engineers); manage/mentor KPMG resources to drive engagements to successful closure
Qualifications:
A minimum of three years of data analytics experience with a professional services firm, an internal strategy/analytics group, or similar environment with previous experience in strategy and/or analytics consulting highly regarded
Bachelors degree in a technical or quantitative field from an accredited college or university (masters or MBA degree preferred) with knowledge of topics such as statistics, econometrics, machine learning, operations research, decision science, and cloud computing
Demonstrated analytics solution design and build expertise, project management skills, strong business consulting acumen in applying advanced analytics to solve business issues, and knowledge of business operational, process, delivery, and revenue models
Demonstrated ability to manage engagements and interface with senior level management internally as well as with clients and significant project management, client handling, and executive communication capabilities (e.g., interviews, workshop management, business writing)
Sector- and/or process-specific experience in D&A strategy and transformation, as well as exposure to design and implementation needs with a good understanding of general landscape for data science and big data opportunities; deeper understanding of sector- and/or process-specific landscape for opportunities
Organization design, transformation design/execution expertise, workstream management skills, and strong business consulting acumen with significant project management, client handling, and executive communication capabilities (e.g., interviews, workshop management, business writing)
Ability to travel as needed
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future
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