KPMG Report: An Analysis of Roles, Recruitment and Selection Processes

This report provides an overview of KPMG, detailing its background, service lines, and career hierarchy. It focuses on the roles of senior managers, managers, and analysts, outlining their responsibilities and required qualifications. The report further examines KPMG's recruitment and selection processes, including application analysis, testing, and interviews, as well as the tools and techniques used, such as off-campus drives, candidate management, and job posting. The report also highlights KPMG's hiring questions and the timeframe for candidate selection. Finally, it offers recommendations for improving the recruitment and selection process, such as maintaining candidate profiles, formulating a comprehensive HR plan, and utilizing new HR technologies. The report references relevant sources to support its findings.

Background information
 KPMG stands for the Klynveld Peat Marwick
Goerdeler.
 In 1818, KPMG was opened by the John Moxham, in
Bristol.
 Each national KPMG firm is the independent legal
entity.
 It is organized in the service lines like audit, advisory,
and tax.
 It was ranked as the second on the world’s best
outsourcing advisors.

Background information
 KPMG is the network of multinational professional
services.
 It is one of the big four accounting organizations.
 KPMG is the network of firms within the 147 nations
with more than 219000 employees.
 This has the three lines of the services like financial
audit, advisory, and tax.
 Services of tax and advisory are divided within the
many groups.

Positions
KPMG is the customer centric and enterprise
the wide approach, and sector lead to the digital
transformation.
AT KPMG career hierarchy are
Partner/associate partner, senior manager,
manager, senior consultant, consultant, and
analyst.

Senior manager
 The role of administrative played by the senior manager
in the KPMG.
 These makes sure that functions and operations of the
organization runs operationally and going properly
(KPMG, 2020).
 These coordinates the all activities of the staff member
within the organization and supervise the management
and others working under them.
 The master degree is preferred with the CA, ACCA and
CPA with the good experience of work in the training &
development, business, or related field

Manager
 The manager also plays the important role as the
administrative and give the responsibility to handle
many departments and task within the KPMG.
 There are different manager for handle the workers and
separate one for the accounts and finances.
 There is requirement of the minimum three year
experience with the responsible experience of the
leadership in the management and supervision
positions.
 The manger should have the specialized training to

Analyst
 Analyst is known as the lowest level in the KPMG.
 It is known as the entry level position within the
organization.
 This position is filled by the candidates which are fresh
graduates .
 These performs the basis tasks to analyze the
information.

Analyst
Analyst provide their views on the organization
activities (Smith, 2019).
Analyst gives their consultancy on the
organization matters.
By gaining the experience of more than 2 years
analyst can move up within the hierarchy of the
positions and then senior consultant.

Recruitment and selection
 Organization receive and analyze the applications
through the written test, discussion in group, and
interview with the management and HR.
 Invite the applicants for the process of selection.
 The process of selection includes the numerical and
verbal aptitude, English language, and personality test.
 Group dynamics includes the communication and
reasoning skills.
 There are two steps regarding the interviews.
 Final discussion.

Tools and techniques
 It runs the off campus drive for the fresher's that are interested in
the job roles.
 It uses the candidate management tools.
 Onboarding tools.
 Task management tools.
 Job posting
 Selection tools
 Referrals
 Candidate management tools
 Sourcing and recruitment tools
 Online applications

KPMG hiring questions & time
frame
 What is the cloud computing?
 What is the circular link list?
 Define the RDBMS and DBMS?
 The time framework to select the candidate is seven
days which starts from the application and finish with
the appointment.

Recommendations
 KMPG should maintain the proper profile of the candidates to
select appropriate employees.
 The department of the human resource in KMPG should formulate
the appropriate search and recruitment plan.
 It should defined the posting of the job and improve the process of
recruitment (Vickers, McDonald, & Grimes, 2014).
 It should use the new technologies of the HR to improve the
process of selection and recruitment.
 It should improve the experience of candidate with the good
recommendation to improve the process of recruitment and
selection.