Business Consultant

Why KPMG Lighthouse?

Innovate. Collaborate. Shine. Lighthouse — KPMG Canada’s Center of Excellence for Data & Analytics + Intelligent Automation — applies data science to solve real-word business problems and operationalize AI. Join a diverse team which is always curious and learning, thinking independently and working collaboratively, has a passion to solve difficult problems and has fun doing it.

KPMG Lighthouse Toronto has an exciting opportunity for a Business Consultant to join our team! This role will be a rewarding experience for you if you:

• Thrive on challenges and work best in a fast-paced environment where each day is different
• Work well in a project team environment and have strong collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Have a permanent “figure it out” mindset

What you will do:

• Broad, versatile knowledge of analytics and big data landscape
• Demonstrated analytics solution design and build expertise, work stream management skills, strong business consulting acumen in applying advanced analytics to solve business issues
• Knowledge of or strong aptitude for quick learning business operations, process, delivery and revenue models
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts and analytics to business people, explain business processes, concepts, challenges and issues to technical resources
• Exposure to analytics tools and programming languages (e.g. R, Python, Alteryx, SQL) and visualization platforms (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI)
• Provide general project management and oversee the planning, scheduling and completion of objectives and deliverables of Lighthouse engagements, asset development and other initiatives
• Understand the broader D&A concepts and implications, helping engagement teams understand domain context required for delivering meaningful and effective insights from D&A solutions.
• Experts at gathering client information, documenting requirements, summarizing information, layering in market research and synthesizing this information for both:
  • Engagement teams to execute on
  • Client teams to action
• Oversee the design, management, execution and implementation of complex analytics models
• Expert storytellers

What you bring to the role:

• Apply strong business consulting acumen and statistical background, combined with real-work experience in applying analytics to solve business issues
• Use practical understanding of advanced analytics methods and big data software for client solutioning
• Understand and apply engagement economics to deliver engagements within scope, time and budget

Keys to your success:

• Ability to apply data and analytics concepts to business problems
• Ability to explain data and analytics concepts to clients
• Assist in the creation of business development materials

Tagged as: Business Analytics, Data Science, Data Visualization, Engineering, Management