Associate Director-GDC

Roles & responsibilities
Audit Service Delivery
Lead multiple teams supporting a diverse portfolio of clients and engagements, ensuring seamless workflow management, operational excellence, and high-quality service delivery within the Canada practice.
Provide overall leadership for audit service delivery across assigned teams, ensuring timely completion of engagements and adherence to quality, risk management, and professional standards.
Lead the execution of projects on behalf of onshore KPMG teams and clients, ensuring delivery expectations are consistently achieved.
Monitor delivery performance through effective planning, forecasting, utilization management, and resource allocation, taking proactive actions to address risks, constraints, and deviations from plan.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, efficiency, quality, and operational effectiveness across teams.
Build and maintain strong relationships with Canada stakeholders and colleagues, serving as a trusted business partner and identifying opportunities to expand services, enhance quality, and increase the scope of work delivered by CRC.
Engage regularly with onshore stakeholders to align priorities, manage expectations, address escalations, and support achievement of business objectives.
Lead and support strategic transformation and change initiatives, ensuring effective stakeholder engagement and successful implementation across teams.

People Leadership
Provide leadership and oversight to a team of approximately 100 professionals, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, engagement, and high performance.
Serve as a Performance Manager for Managers, Seniors, and Associates, providing coaching, mentoring, continuous feedback, and career development support to drive professional growth and capability building.
Lead talent management activities, including succession planning, high-potential employee development, workforce planning, talent deployment, and retention strategies.
Promote adherence to firm policies, independence requirements, risk management standards, and workplace expectations, addressing performance and compliance matters as appropriate.
Partner with Leadership, HR, and other stakeholders to enhance employee engagement, team effectiveness, and overall people experience.
Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and knowledge sharing, enabling teams to develop technical, professional, and leadership capabilities.
Serve as an escalation point for people, operational, and service delivery matters, ensuring timely resolution and effective stakeholder management.

Strategic Initiatives & Practice Development
Lead business and industry-specific knowledge development initiatives within CRC to strengthen capabilities and support evolving client and stakeholder requirements.
Lead and/or participate in firm-wide strategic initiatives, transformation programs, and corporate social responsibility activities.
Support practice growth and operational excellence objectives through implementation of scalable processes, innovative solutions, and efficiency-enhancing initiatives.
Contribute to broader practice priorities that advance quality, employee engagement, operational effectiveness, and business growth.

Roles & responsibilities
Audit Service Delivery
Lead multiple teams supporting a diverse portfolio of clients and engagements, ensuring seamless workflow management, operational excellence, and high-quality service delivery within the Canada practice.
Provide overall leadership for audit service delivery across assigned teams, ensuring timely completion of engagements and adherence to quality, risk management, and professional standards.
Lead the execution of projects on behalf of onshore KPMG teams and clients, ensuring delivery expectations are consistently achieved.
Monitor delivery performance through effective planning, forecasting, utilization management, and resource allocation, taking proactive actions to address risks, constraints, and deviations from plan.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance productivity, efficiency, quality, and operational effectiveness across teams.
Build and maintain strong relationships with Canada stakeholders and colleagues, serving as a trusted business partner and identifying opportunities to expand services, enhance quality, and increase the scope of work delivered by CRC.
Engage regularly with onshore stakeholders to align priorities, manage expectations, address escalations, and support achievement of business objectives.
Lead and support strategic transformation and change initiatives, ensuring effective stakeholder engagement and successful implementation across teams.

People Leadership
Provide leadership and oversight to a team of approximately 100 professionals, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, inclusion, engagement, and high performance.
Serve as a Performance Manager for Managers, Seniors, and Associates, providing coaching, mentoring, continuous feedback, and career development support to drive professional growth and capability building.
Lead talent management activities, including succession planning, high-potential employee development, workforce planning, talent deployment, and retention strategies.
Promote adherence to firm policies, independence requirements, risk management standards, and workplace expectations, addressing performance and compliance matters as appropriate.
Partner with Leadership, HR, and other stakeholders to enhance employee engagement, team effectiveness, and overall people experience.
Foster a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and knowledge sharing, enabling teams to develop technical, professional, and leadership capabilities.
Serve as an escalation point for people, operational, and service delivery matters, ensuring timely resolution and effective stakeholder management.

Strategic Initiatives & Practice Development
Lead business and industry-specific knowledge development initiatives within CRC to strengthen capabilities and support evolving client and stakeholder requirements.
Lead and/or participate in firm-wide strategic initiatives, transformation programs, and corporate social responsibility activities.
Support practice growth and operational excellence objectives through implementation of scalable processes, innovative solutions, and efficiency-enhancing initiatives.
Contribute to broader practice priorities that advance quality, employee engagement, operational effectiveness, and business growth.

Mandatory Technical & Functional Skills
Strong project management, leadership, coaching, counseling, and supervisory skills.
Excellent interpersonal, stakeholder management, facilitation, presentation, and communication skills.
Strong risk management and problem-solving capabilities, with the ability to make sound judgments in complex business situations.
Demonstrated ability to influence, negotiate, collaborate, and build commitment across diverse stakeholder groups.
Proven ability to lead large teams, manage change, and drive organizational transformation in a dynamic environment.
Strong strategic thinking, workforce planning, resource management, and operational leadership capabilities.
Resilient and adaptable, with the ability to deliver under tight timelines and evolving business priorities, including support during weekends and holidays when required by business needs.

This role is for you if you have the below
Educational qualifications

CA/CPA professional with 8-10 years’ experience (preferred article ship from a Big4)
Recent and extensive experience in external audits is required
Strong project management, supervisory and people management skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills and effective upward management and cross team communication
IT savvy, including knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Power Point.