HR Director, Audit UK & Switzerland

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Job details

Location: London
Capability: Corporate Services
Experience Level: Director
Type: Full Time
Business Area: People & Resourcing
Contract type: Permanent
Job Description

About the capability

Group Corporate Services (GCS) is the home for all internal support services that support the combined firm. Working with our Capability-led matrix and throughout the whole firm, GCS executes on our Group's strategic goals by enabling growth, protecting the firm and running operations effectively and efficiently, resulting in improved profitability. We do this using a ‘We are Group’ mindset.

About The Team

The People and Resourcing domain’s purpose is to enable the Group’s business strategy through its people. We maintain our position as an employer of choice by fostering a Values-led culture, enabling our people to thrive, and delivering a positive experience through the employee lifecycle. We are a strategic HR function that leverages digitisation, automation, and data-driven insights to enhance decision-making and productivity.

Role Purpose

Shape and deliver the Group Audit people & culture strategy, aligning talent, learning, reward and workforce priorities to business growth and the capability-led model.
Act as a trusted advisor to the Group Capability Leadership Team, using insight and analytics to strengthen decision-making, engagement, inclusion, organisational effectiveness and resilience.

Key Accountabilities

Partnering with the Audit Executive and the Head of Culture to shape and deliver the Group Audit People & Culture Strategy, enabling growth, organisational effectiveness and the capability-led model through agreed strategic people priorities.
Embed people insight into senior decision-making through timely, high-impact workforce, talent and employee experience analysis.
Strengthen organisational effectiveness, leadership capability and change readiness through agreed transformation, talent, succession and workforce planning outcomes.
Provide Group-level oversight of people risk, governance and compliance through effective controls, reporting and escalation of material people risks.
Embed Group HR Business Partnering standards across the Capability and member firms, ensuring aligned HRBP priorities, consistent delivery and stakeholder confidence.
Works as part of an integrated HR service delivery model, partnering with COEs, Shared Services and Capabilities to ensure services are strategically aligned, operationally effective, colleague-centered and delivered to a consistently high standard across the Group.

Key responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

Role holder is a member of the Audit Executive Committee in order to shape, influence and implement Audit strategy and will attend the Audit Board.
Partner with executive leadership, including the Head of Culture, to deliver the Audit People & Culture Strategy, aligned to business objectives and growth ambitions.
Take account of member-firm priorities in shaping and delivering the people agenda.
Use employee experience insight and workforce analytics to ensure people impacts are understood and reflected in strategic choices.

People Strategy & Organisational Effectiveness

Translate business needs into high-impact people initiatives that drive performance, engagement and transformation.
Own Group-level people outcomes, performance measures and delivery against agreed priorities.
Take a lead role in organisational change, including restructuring, cultural transformation and leadership alignment.
Apply global HR frameworks to ensure alignment and consistency in Group-wide priorities.

Risk, Compliance & Governance

Act as a steward for people-related risk, balancing business priorities with people impact.
Maintain Group-level oversight of member-firm compliance with local employment laws and regulations, recognising that country-specific interpretation and application sits with the relevant HRBP support structures.
Ensure Group governance standards, controls and reporting requirements are understood, embedded and complied with across member firms.

Innovation & Analytics

Use workforce analytics to inform talent planning, organisational design and leadership development.
Champion AI and advanced analytics in Group-level people strategy for the Capability to enable transformation and organisational effectiveness.
Bring external perspective through networks, benchmarks and thought leadership to enhance the Audit People Strategy.

Team Leadership & Operational Alignment

Work with Centres of Excellence and Shared Services to align plans to business needs and people priorities.
Lead Audit HR Business Partners team, setting clear objectives, expectations and priorities to ensure consistent delivery across member firms.
Consolidate insight from HRBP activity, CoE expertise and Shared Services operations to provide business leaders with a unified view of people topics.

Key skills, experience

Significant senior HR leadership experience in complex, multi-market or matrixed environments.
Commercial acumen and understanding of the relevant business context, challenges and priorities
Proven ability to translate business priorities into people plans, workforce strategies and measurable outcomes.
Strong interpersonal skills and ability to influence, have impact and build effective relationships with senior leaders
Proven aptitude in strategic thinking, thought leadership and innovative ideas to support the development of the people strategies, priorities and plans
Strong external / market awareness, networks and understanding of the broader industry trends and challenges, and the role HR can play in an organisation’s success
Strong experience in operating models, organisational design, governance, workforce planning and people risk.
Strong expertise in succession planning, leadership development, capability building and senior talent planning.
Confident using workforce analytics, AI-enabled insight and digital HR tools to improve decisions and outcomes.

Why Corporate Services at KPMG?

Corporate Services operates as a £multi-million business within our business and, through our combined efforts, we enable the firm to serve our people, our clients and wider society. The internal expertise, advice, support and services we provide to our client-facing business are fundamental to the success of our firm.

Through collaboration, agility, fresh thinking and innovation, we help our people across the firm to work in a way that’s smarter and more sustainable. We’re a cross-functional team, bringing together technically knowledgeable experts across a wide range of critical activities to help grow, run and protect our business. Our areas span Corporate Affairs and Marketing, Digital, Finance and Commercial, People and Resourcing, and Risk and Legal.