Functional HR Manager at KPMG in Cape Town | Apply Now!

Permanent

KPMG

📍 Location: KPMG South Africa – Infrastructure PPC Unit, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, 8001
📝 Reference: 2500001Y
💼 Job Type: Permanent
🏢 Department: Infrastructure – People, Performance & Culture (PPC)
👥 Positions Available: 1

🔍 About KPMG South Africa

KPMG is a globally recognised professional services firm providing audit, tax, and advisory expertise across industries. The People, Performance & Culture (PPC) function supports the business by building strong organisational capability and delivering exceptional HR solutions.

The Functional HR Manager plays a key advisory role within the Infrastructure PPC Unit, ensuring that HR strategies, policies, and talent solutions align with business objectives. This is a strategic and operational role—ideal for an experienced HR professional who thrives on partnership, transformation, and people-centred leadership.

🎯 Role Overview

As a Functional HR Manager, you will act as the primary HR partner to your assigned Business Units, providing expert support in talent management, performance development, learning, HR strategy, and organisational effectiveness.

You will translate Business Unit goals into HR initiatives, ensure compliance with labour legislation, foster a collaborative people culture, and drive high-impact HR projects. This role also serves as a Learning Business Partner, linking BU needs with the Learning & Development function.

Your work will directly influence leadership effectiveness, employee experience, transformation outcomes, and overall business performance.

🛠️ Key Responsibilities

📌 Strategic HR & Business Partnering

  • Maintain deep knowledge of KPMG’s strategy, PPC frameworks, and industry trends.

  • Provide input to the HR strategy for the Business Unit.

  • Translate strategic priorities into operational HR plans.

  • Integrate HR strategy into BU objectives to enable organisational excellence.

📈 HR Programme Delivery & Talent Management

  • Drive priority HR projects aligned with BU strategy and KPIs.

  • Oversee full HR service delivery:

    • Talent acquisition

    • Talent management & retention

    • Succession planning

    • Performance development

    • Learning & development

    • Reward & recognition

    • Organisational effectiveness

    • Mobility processes

👥 HR Advisory & Compliance

  • Ensure compliance with labour legislation, HR policies, and organisational governance.

  • Manage employee relations and provide guidance to managers.

  • Support all HR deadlines, reporting cycles, and compliance requirements.

  • Maintain a positive, inclusive, high-performance work environment.

📚 Learning & Development Partnership

  • Serve as the Learning Business Partner for the BU.

  • Communicate training needs to L&D teams and ensure alignment.

  • Facilitate information flow between BU leaders and the learning function.

📊 Data, Reporting & Insights

  • Analyse BU people data to identify trends and improvement opportunities.

  • Provide insights that enable proactive decision-making.

  • Drive financial management and budgeting processes within the HR function.

🤝 Stakeholder & People Experience Management

  • Ensure a consistent HR experience for colleagues and leadership.

  • Promote the firm’s transformation agenda and alignment with national frameworks.

  • Prioritise colleague wellbeing and engagement initiatives.

  • Build strong internal partnerships across PPC and business units.

📘 Minimum Requirements

🎓 Qualifications

  • Degree or Diploma in Human Resource Management, Industrial Psychology, Social Sciences, or related field.

  • Registration with HPCSA, SABPP, IPD, FASSET or similar bodies is advantageous.

💼 Experience

  • Minimum 5 years of HR generalist experience.

  • Minimum 2 years in an HR management-level role.

  • Strong understanding of HR methodologies, models, strategies, and the HR value chain.

  • Knowledge of labour relations, skills development frameworks, B-BBEE, and regulatory HR requirements.

⭐ Technical Skills

  • Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities.

  • Excellent verbal and written communication.

  • Advanced computer literacy.

  • Analytical and statistical capability.

  • Budget management skills.

💡 Personal Attributes

  • High integrity, confidentiality, and professionalism.

  • Strong relationship-building capability.

  • Conflict management and resilience.

  • Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams.

  • Ability to multitask, meet deadlines, and work proactively.

  • High attention to detail and organisational skills.

📝 Best CV Tips for This Role

✔ Show HR Leadership Experience
Highlight your managerial HR roles, team leadership, and strategic contributions.

✔ Demonstrate Business Partnering Skills
Include examples of cross-functional collaboration and HR strategy implementation.

✔ Quantify HR Impact
Provide metrics (e.g., reduced turnover, improved performance cycles, talent pipeline success).

✔ Highlight Transformation & Compliance Knowledge
Include B-BBEE work, EE reporting, or HR governance initiatives.

✔ Add L&D and Talent Management Achievements
Show how you aligned training needs to strategy or improved performance outcomes.

✔ Include HR Systems Expertise
List HRIS tools you’ve used and your reporting capabilities.

📢 Employment Equity

KPMG is committed to transformation, diversity, equity, and inclusion. Preference may be given to candidates from designated groups in line with employment equity plans. The firm reserves the right not to make an appointment.

To apply for this job please visit kpmgza.taleo.net.