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Manager Economics and Disputes

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KPMG
London - United Kingdom
S: Competitive

Joining KPMG means joining a talented team of exceptional colleagues who bring innovative thoughts and a natural curiosity to the work they do each day. No one type of person succeeds at KPMG; a diverse business requires diverse personalities, characters and perspectives. There really is a place for you here.

KPMG's Economics team is a full-service economic consulting practice of approximately 70 economists. We have wide-ranging experience in all aspects of economic and regulatory analysis across a wide range of sectors.
The UK team is part of wider global Economics and Regulation network and comprises a number of different practice areas, including Macroeconomics.

The Macroeconomics team is currently a team of 4 economics. We are looking to grow rapidly to meet client demand. Our client base is international and we work across all sectors.
We bring together the brightest economic minds from all kinds of backgrounds, to provide the best services for our varied client base.

Our work includes:
- We help our clients to understand how changes in the macroeconomic environment affect their business through econometric modelling and forecasting.
- We provide KPMG's views on the economic outlook, forecasts and scenarios of key macroeconomic variables such as GDP, interest rates, exchange rates, inflation and unemployment. These are used in strategic planning, financial reporting and business valuations.
- We work with Government to help them formulate and model the impact of economic policy.
- We also provide economic analysis for KPMG itself, including the production of thought leadership pieces, presentations on the economic outlook at internal and external events, and pieces in the media.
- We work with banks on the implementation of macroeconomic outlook and forecasts into their credit loss provisions under the IFRS 9 financial reporting standard.

Requirement
We are looking to recruit an economic manager to join our team. They will be responsible for leading our work with banks to incorporate economic information into credit loss provisions. The responsibilities will include:
- Working in an advisory capacity with banks to help them develop their approaches and models in order to reflect the macroeconomic outlook in their financial reports.
- Follow industry wide developments in "best practice" approaches to modelling economic prospects.
- Develop scenarios using large macroeconomic models.
- Work with our audit teams to review and challenge approaches being adopted by our audit clients.
- Running small engagements from proposal to invoicing, including opportunity qualification, proposal and report writing, budgeting, financial and risk management, technical approach, quality assurance and client relationships.
- Talking at external events with our clients to increase our profile and identify new opportunities.

Experience required
- A 2.1 or First class undergraduate degree in economics from a top rated university is a must, with a significant statistical / econometric focus.
- A good Masters' degree in economics would be an advantage.
- Significant experience of working with large economic models to develop consistent macroeconomic scenarios and economic forecasts.
- Experience of the application of macroeconomic information in banks' financial models would be an advantage.
- Experience of working as a consultant, developing client relationships and winning work would be an advantage.
- Experience of running small teams and taking responsibility for own workload.

Skills required
- Excellent quantitative economic (econometric) skills
- Advanced use of Excel and at least one econometric package (preferably Stata or R).
- Excellent written English.
- Excellent oral communications.
- Ability to present advanced technical evidence in a digestible format to a non-economist.
- Client relationships and networking skills
- Team management skills.

Job summary

Employer:

KPMG

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Education:

Master's Degree

Sector:

Economist

Salary:

Competitive

Job Type:

Permanent

Hours:

Full-Time

Posted:

30th November 2016

Apply By:

20th December 2016

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