Job Description

At KPMG, you can become an integral part of a dynamic team at one of the world's top tax firms. Enjoy a collaborative, future-forward culture that empowers your success. Work with KPMG's extensive network of specialists; enjoy access to our Ignition Centers, where deep industry knowledge merges with cutting-edge technologies to create innovative tax solutions. Join a diverse team helping high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. Develop your career through a range of multifaceted engagements, formal training, and informal mentoring. At KPMG, we believe nothing is more important than investing in our culture because it's an investment in our people, our future, and what we stand for as a firm.

KPMG is currently seeking a Manager in our US Legal Business Services (LBS) practice to join our growing team. LBS team members work closely with other KPMG service teams, including KPMG Law US and foreign member firm legal practices.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage KPMG delivery teams on LBS engagements for legal department and law firm clients across LBS's three service lines: Legal Managed Services, Legal Operations Consulting, and Legal Technology Innovation; manage services engagements for legal departments; strategic assessments for legal teams; legal technology optimization, selections and implementations, including CLM and Gen AI applications for legal teams; organizational/target operating model design initiatives; legal/business process improvements; governance models; legal metrics and data; strategic modeling and impact analysis; legal resourcing strategies, and the like
• Manage engagements according to KPMG's financial and cost management policies
• Lead day-to-day activities for LBS engagements and serve as clients' principal point of contact for engagement-specific needs
• Facilitate program and project management activities, preparation and review of engagement work papers, written deliverables and status reports to present to clients, action items and issue/risk logs
• Supervise, mentor and manage staff working on assigned projects
• Refine and optimize methodologies and approach to engagements

Qualifications:

• Minimum five years of recent prior experience working in legal business consulting, legal technology innovation, and/or legal managed services; experience could include, among other things, work in a consulting/advisory firm on behalf of legal teams; time spent in the legal technology field (at a legal technology provider or implementation partner); experience in a legal department, law firm, management, operations and/or work in the field of legal-related data and analytics
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university; JD, MBA, or master's degree from an accredited law, business, or graduate school preferred, in addition to other credentials on KPMG's approved credential listing
• Experience leading large scale legal operations projects with demonstrated strong project management skills, including experience selecting, implementing and deploying leading legal technologies (Gen AI, CLM, ELM)
• Strong communication skills and ability to interact with a variety of client stakeholders, including Chief Legal Officers, law firm partners, corporate and law firm executives, and other business stakeholders
• Ability to supervise and offer guidance to staff; work in and support a team environment
• Ability to travel up to 50%
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future; KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)

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