Senior Associate, Product Owner - Advisory Data Organization

The KPMG Advisory practice is currently our fastest growing practice. We are seeing tremendous client demand, and looking forward, we don't 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.

Key to KPMG's Advisory growth strategy is embedding data & analytics in everything we do, and in all aspects of our client delivery. KPMG is currently seeking a Data Scientist to join our Data Science group within Signals Repository team which is a central to KPMG's Advisory Data Organization (ADO). The Signals Repository is a KPMG created platform to enable data scientists & analysts to build machine learning (ML) enabled business solutions using open-source data (see video) . Today, the platform connects to 100K regularly updated data elements from around the globe, which power applications across insurance, financial services, consumer products & healthcare industries to name a few. Whether determining the best location to site a new restaurant/bank/clinic, estimating risk of a home/auto/individual insurance claim, forecasting national inflation rates or monitoring COVID-19 hot-spots (see video), access to the data & tools accelerate & enhance the solution builds. The platform has already enabled the delivery of $50M+ in engagement revenue and the platform continues to grow in terms of breadth & functionality.

This exciting role will require working with the Signals Repository team to develop reusable solutions and tools to enable promotion of Data Science assets to Advisory professionals and enhance client delivery.

KPMG is currently seeking a Data Strategy & Technology Specialist to join our Advisory Data Organization.

Responsibilities:

• Liaise with the platform Product Manager, own and drive development of the platform's key end-user apps and services, including the platform's primary web portal and access point, data marketplace catalog, discovery, and community network capabilities, and leverage of end-user BI and advanced data analytics/science tools
• Independently, and in collaboration with the platform Product Manager, identify and build relationships with target Advisory professionals and key personas to collect and translate end-user needs into business and functional requirements for development and advancement of the platform
• Develop and maintain a product roadmap, ensuring alignment with the platform solution's strategic objectives, and in consideration for dependencies and integrations with other Advisory data and technology solutions
• Partner with third party tool vendors to incorporate planned functionality into the product roadmap, influence vendor's targeted roadmap of tool features in alignment with KPMG's requirements, and reflect vendor risks/dependencies in release planning
• Understand how each product fits into the overall system capability architecture and incorporate that knowledge into the product design
• In collaboration with the platform's data strategy team and product management, continually evaluate market trends and competitive or alternate technologies, and reflect those into the platform product planning

Qualifications:

• Minimum three years of relevant experience in Agile management of technical products with at least one full product development cycle completed, from concept to release
• Minimum three years of hands-on experience working in data analytics and associated data domains
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university required; certified Scrum Product Owner certification or equivalent preferred
• Experience with one or more modern product development work management and reporting platforms (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jira, Github, Bitbucket); experience with building a web portal, preferably with a customer focus (e.g., content management, customer onboarding, group or content management)
• Working knowledge of one or more business intelligence, visualization, and advanced analytics tools for machine learning / AI solutions (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Alteryx, Data Robot, DataBricks, Dataiku, RStudio, Jupyter Notebooks)
• Excellent verbal, written, and visual communications skills; ability to articulate ideas to audiences with varied experience and levels throughout the organization; ability to collaborate with and liaise with geographically distributed teams

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