Research Analyst at KPMG

Auto req ID: 104922BR
Function: Infrastructure - Marketing & Communications
Service Line: Marketing & Communications
Job Level: Associate/Team member
Contract Type: Permanent
Full Time / Part Time: Full Time

Principal Duties and Responsibilities
Lines of business (LOB) strategy sessions, technical sessions and national accounts meetings.

• Set up all logistics arrangements for the meeting: seek for the venue to hold the meeting and send out meeting invites to all members of the LOB teams.
• Obtain the details of ‘sold jobs’ and proposals sent: client, fees, nature of work, etc from managers. Confirm the information from the partners.

National Accounts meetings:

• Coordinate strategy sessions of all national accounts.
• Work with national accounts managers and partners to ensure all meetings are held.
• Document and circulate action points of all national accounts’ meetings.

Follow-up on Action Points:

• Closely follow-up on action points i.e. monitor the implementation of all LOBs and national accounts action points.
• Extract and compile action points for each member.
• Circulate the information to the person/group of persons responsible for the action point(s).
• Closely monitor the deadline for each action point.

Client care assessment programme.
Specific action points required include the following:

• Obtain the list of clients for client care assessment programme (CCAP) from the list of top-clients in the previous FY/as may be recommended by the Head, Sales and Marketing.
• Book appointments for the interviews:
• Liaise with KPMG personnel to obtain the details of the contacts for the interview.
• Inform the clients of the interview and confirm the receipts /acceptance of the request.
• Follow-up with the Partner to obtain the report of the interview.
• Assist with collation, summary and presentations of the findings of the reports.

Minimum Education & Experience

• Minimum of First Degree in any discipline (with a minimum of a second class lower division) with 1 - 3 years' working experience.
• Possession of Master's degree/professional qualifications will be an advantage.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Functional/Technical Skills:

• Strong analytical, numerate, problem-solving, report writing and presentation skills.
• Excellent verbal/oral communications skills
• Technology appreciation, including a working understanding of MS Office Suite especially Microsoft Excel, Powerpoint and Word.
• Ability to gather data, compile and make inferences on the information gathered.
• Good understanding of economic and financial indicators.
• Ability to be multi-tasking and determined at meeting deadlines.
• Strong planning, time and workload management, and execution skills

Behavioural/Management Development Skills:

• Relationship building and networking skills
• Strong team building skills
• Training, coaching and mentoring/supervising abilities.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work in diverse teams
• Skills in organising resources and establishing priorities/targets
• Customer service orientation
• Diplomacy and tact