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Your Role

What you will do:

At KPMG, you’ll join a team of diverse and dedicated problem solvers, connected by a common cause: turning insight into opportunity for clients and communities around the world.

The opportunity:

They are seeking talented and energetic candidates to join their Advisory, Management Consulting team as an Intern/Co-op Consultant working in their Montreal office starting in January 2025 to April 2025. Positions are available in the following service lines:

• Customer - The KPMG Customer Team creates best-in-class digitally enabled customer experiences (CX) as part of their clients’ wider organizational strategy. They operate across seven key service domains: CX design, growth strategy, digital advisory, e-commerce advisory, innovation, and contact center advisory. Their projects are about understanding strategy, technology, design, and processes through the lens of digital experiences. They would love to hear from individuals with experience or interest in helping clients reshape their business around their customers and enabling truly connected and profitable enterprise.
• Operations - The Operations team at KPMG supports clients in the Financial Services sector (Banking, Wealth & Asset Management, Insurance, Private Equity, Pensions), the Public Sector and the Technology, Media and Telecommunication sectors through a range of services: strategic planning, Target Operating Model (TOM) design, process improvement/redesign, cost optimization, value realization, and accounting/regulatory change programs. They are looking for individuals that bring experience or interest in working on transformation and projects from planning to execution. They want to hear from individuals that want to develop a broad skill set that will allow them to perform current situation assessments, as well as visioning/target state design, develop roadmaps and support implementations. 
• Supply Chain - Amidst ever-changing technological, economic and regulatory challenges, varying industries need one thing: The Supply Chain team helps clients develop effective supply chain management to accelerate their corporate growth strategies, increase operational efficiency, and offer new and differentiated value to their customers. They would love to hear from individuals that are passionate about understanding the complexities of designing and managing supply chains, while being able to support a strategic business approach to help create and sustain bottom-line value across the extended supply chain - from suppliers to customers.
• Banking Capital Markets (BCM) - KPMG’s Banking and Capital Markets (BCM) Practice enables their clients in the banking, capital markets and payments industries to uncover and capitalize on new opportunities. They support a wide range of banks, credit unions, fintechs, payment providers, and other financial services organizations in their pursuit of achieving strategic objectives. BCM is a collaborative team of highly seasoned specialists from diverse fields such as banking, capital markets, payments, banking technology, and finance transformation. Their clients look to them for expertise in identifying, quantifying, and delivering complex organizational change required to grow, innovate, compete, and remain resilient in an ever-evolving marketplace. They would love to hear from individuals who want to specialise in solving problems specific to the banking/capital markets industries, and that will help the team create value through data and technology enabled change, product and operating strategy, as well as new business models & services.
• Intelligent Automation (IA) - The Intelligent Automation team enables organizations to achieve business-wide digital , leveraging emerging technologies to transform operating models, and innovate to remain competitive, and reimagine the customer experience. Their professionals help organizations leverage intelligent automation to drive value across the value chain from front to back-office functions. Their team employs people from a wide range of backgrounds, from AI/ML experts to people specialized in process optimization and business analysis. As such, they would love to hear from individuals with experience and/or a passion for innovation, technology, process optimization and/or computer sciences/development.
• Transformation Delivery Services (TDS) - The Transformation Delivery Services team brings an integrated, human-centered approach to major projects, with an ultimate focus on a painless transformation journey and successful outcomes. With their broad experience, KPMG helps their clients to avoid the common pitfalls of transformation programs with practical steps and proven capabilities. They are looking for individuals that have an interest/experience in change management or project management, that want to develop into experts in program and project management to accompany their clients in delivering large scale transformation programs.
• IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture - The IT strategy team at KPMG advises clients on how new technology will impact their business and delivers innovative end-to-end digital transformation. They work with digital and functional leaders across industries and sectors to define their vision for digital transformation, develop tailored technology strategies, align with IT assets to be more customer centric, and create and execute implementation plans that drive business value. They want to hear from individuals with experience and/or a clear passion for technology.
• People & Change (P&C) - The People and Change team enhances client’s performance in both the private and public sectors by helping to shape and navigate the important people dynamics related to the transformation of work, capabilities, and behaviors. They assist their clients with strategic alignment, change management, workforce shaping, embedding inclusion and diversity, capability building & learning, digital HR transformations and culture shifting. Their practice is looking for individuals that have experience and/or a passion for problem solving while adopting a people first approach. They will help them drive value and enhance their client’s success by optimizing their talent agenda and activating their most valuable resource, their people.
• Enterprise Solutions (ES) - Enterprise Solutions has many pillars such as Microsoft, ServiceNow and Workday. Their practice works to bring expertise in services covering end to end system implementations and technology transformations. They recognize that the technology landscape is rapidly changing; their practice stays ahead by embracing innovation and industry leading solutions to transform businesses. Keeping in that end-to-end approach, their team is looking for individuals with a passion for technology that have experiences and/or interests ranging from computer science and application development, to project management and business analysis.
• Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) - Their team works with finance functions to empower them to become more insightful and true business partners.  This includes determining appropriate enterprise business measures, planning and forecasting integrated business outcomes, analyzing and reporting business scenarios and results, and ultimately delivering the insight needed to drive enhanced business performance. They are looking for team members with experience or interest in financial planning and analysis, with a particular focus on implementing technology solutions to enable these processes.

About You

What you bring to the role:

For consultant level:

• You are enrolled in a university degree program (they will be considering candidates from a spectrum of programs such as Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Commerce, Arts, etc.).
  • Please note that their Intelligent Automation and Enterprise Solutions practices are looking to fill both technical and generalist roles. Experience in coding and computer science are a strong asset for the technical roles. 
• You are currently in your first, second, or third year of study.
• You are a highly motivated individual, enthusiastic about taking on a variety of challenges and opportunities.
• You have excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• You have a strong academic record.
• You have the ability to work independently without supervision.
• You have strong problem solving and analytical abilities, as well as a proven track record of successfully dealing with competing priorities and deadlines under pressure.
• You have a strong sense of personal accountability.
• You have an entrepreneurial drive, and are a creative problem solver.

All selected candidates must already have or obtain legal authorization to work in Canada before the start date of employment.

Benefits

If you join as a full-time employee, you will also have access to the following:

• Extended healthcare
  • Medical, drug, and dental
  • Health Spending Account
  • 24/7 virtual health care
  • Life and accident insurance
• Retirement and Savings Plan
  • Group Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
  • Non-Registered Savings Plan and a Tax-Free Savings Account (TFSA)
• Lifestyle Spending Account
  • Fitness equipment and membership reimbursements
  • Travel expenses, pet products and services, and more
• Mental health support and disability Benefits
• Employee and family assistance program
• Leaves of absence
• Tuition reimbursement
• Diversity and inclusion

Training & Development

KPMG empowers its people to advance their personal and professional skills through learning and development programs, so they can excel at every stage of their career. They have a wide range of learning opportunities across audit, tax, advisory, digital, business enablement services and more to ensure your learning is continuous as you grow into your role. You will be part of a community where learning is continuous and feed your curiosity by taking advantage of these opportunities to set challenging goals while being supported to achieve them.

Career Progression

The KPMG Internship Experience is a terrific way to learn business skills, find a mentor, build your network, and get real-world (even global) experience before graduation. And it can often lead to a full-time job.

How To Apply

• They strongly recommend uploading your 3 documents into a single PDF file rather than uploading them one by one in the requested fields.
• Applications can be addressed to Hiring Manager and should include:
  • Cover letter
  • Resume
  • Electronic copy of your most recent transcript and/or GPA
  • Other relevant documents (i.e. GMAT score)
• Applications that do not include a cover letter and/or resume will NOT be considered.
• If you do not have access to an electronic copy of your transcript, they ask you to attach a screenshot of your grades from your school's website.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• kpmg.com/ca/en/home/careers/life-at-kpmg/benefits.html
• kpmg.com/ca/en/home/careers/life-at-kpmg/learning-and-development.html
• kpmguscareers.com/early-career/program/#internship
• youtube.com/@KPMGCanada