Senior Manager, Audit Communications (12 months contract)

KPMG•Abbotsford, BC

16h

About The Position

At KPMG in Canada, our people bring their unique perspectives to Canada’s most important challenges. Here, you can build momentum that reaches beyond our business, develop skills for the future, and take ownership of your career with support at every stage. Join a firm where your career can make a difference. Your work matters. As part of our Audit & Assurance practice, you’ll deliver high‑quality work that supports trust, transparency, and confidence across both public and private organizations. We foster an environment of high challenge, where curiosity and critical thinking are encouraged. Through high support, including progressive learning, strong coaching, inclusive teamwork, and a shared commitment to integrity, we perform at our best – measuring what matters, recognizing impact, and continuously evolving to deliver excellence. This creates a culture where the best work happens when high challenge and high support work together. That balance is how our values show up—in how we work, how we lead, and what we deliver. The role of Communications and Corporate Affairs is to take an active lead in shaping, promoting and protecting the reputation of our firm, supporting our ambition to be the most trusted and trustworthy professional services firm, creating the conditions for long-term, profitable growth. We do this by: understanding the internal and external environment in which we operate: using data and insights to help shape the decisions we take to build trust; creating a strong and compelling narrative to tell our story, engaging with clients, and employees and with the internal and external stakeholders who influence trust in KPMG. Reporting to the Managing Director, Audit Strategic & Operations, the Senior Manager, Audit Communications has a strong reputation and industry knowledge as a trusted advisor to KPMG’s National Audit Functional leadership teams. This role is accountable for identifying, developing, and leveraging strategic communications content internally and externally to highlight the firm’s services capabilities, to enhance KPMG’s reputation in the Canadian business community and contribute to revenue growth. Please note that this is a 12-month contract opportunity.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in communications roles, including internal communications and media relations experience in a large organization.
Experience in a team environment, working collaboratively with other key marketing/communication functions (brand, creative services, media relations, web development.) and ability to spot and leverage synergies across teams.
Experience in managing complex projects and providing direction to project teams.
Experience working directly with executive-level stakeholders on firmwide communications plans.
Excellent networking skills and strong executive presence with the ability to influence decisions.
Excellent writing and communications skills with proven ability to use communications as a creative tool to engage people.
Proven experience capturing and translating leadership voices in an engaging manner.
Collaborative and consultative working approach
Desire to understand our business to successfully navigate our matrixed environment and support KPMG’s priorities, values, culture and goals.
A self-directed, strategic and lateral thinker
Ability to deliver high-level, professional work quickly.
Strong project management experience
This position requires written and oral fluency in English. The successful candidate may be required to support or collaborate with English-speaking colleagues or stakeholders while at KPMG. The successful candidate may be required to create, interpret and/or apply policies, practices, laws and and/or regulations during the regular course of their employment.

Responsibilities

Works with Audit and Industry Marketing Directors to identify opportunities for creating strategic, results-oriented National communication strategies based on key issues arising internally and externally aligned with the firm’s business and strategic priorities.
Ensures that proposed communications initiatives meet the needs of the business and tests of marketplace and media relevance.
Supervises the work of internal and contract writers, editors on National projects.
Work with the polling insights and geographic marketing teams to build internal client insights content in support of growth and trust objectives
Collaborate with colleagues and leaders across the organization to understand business developments, build thoughtful messaging and execute flawlessly.
Deliver exceptional service to stakeholders through high-quality work, strategic planning and attention to detail.
Responsible for managing the impact of the communications strategy and execution, ensure consistent service delivery, identify areas to increase value, mitigate issues, and bring solutions that align with the vision of the Advisory leadership team.
Keep a pulse on industry trends and translate that knowledge into messages that align to business priorities.