Director, Business Learning Advisor

KPMG US; Boulder (CO); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Director, Business Learning Advisor to enhance their Audit Learning & Development team. The role involves building relationships, managing learning measurement, and leveraging business intelligence tools. Candidates should have extensive experience in professional services and strong stakeholder engagement skills. This full-time position offers remote options and is based in Boulder, CO.

Qualifications

• Minimum ten years of professional services experience, preferably in Audit.
• Experience using business intelligence tools for data and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted advisor relationships for L&D performance consulting projects.
• Manage service delivery and oversee development of learning measurement plans.

Skills

Stakeholder Relationship Development

Performance Consulting

Data Analysis

Instructional Design

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Related Field

Tools

PowerBI

Alteryx

SQL

Excel

Python

Job description

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Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax, and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence, and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Seramount, Fair360, and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team.

KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Learning Business Advisor to join our Audit Learning & Development (L&D) organization.

Responsibilities:

1. Build trusted advisor relationships by developing and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships to support L&D performance consulting projects, ensuring stakeholder buy-in for L&D measurement and evaluation frameworks and results.
2. Partner with the L&D leadership team, Business Learning Advisors, Learning Path Managers, Learning Experience Design team, and Curriculum Partners to integrate M&E plans and results throughout the L&D process lifecycle.
3. Influence client buy-in: Identify opportunities to integrate L&D measurement techniques with broader client-driven monitoring activities and ensure continuous alignment with stakeholders on shared outcomes.
4. Manage service delivery and oversee the development and execution of learning measurement, needs analysis, and program evaluation plans using standardized toolkits, including frameworks, templates, scorecards, rubrics, and guidance.
5. Provide leadership, guidance, and coaching to the M&E team, ensuring adherence to quality control requirements and optimizing service delivery efficiency.
6. Oversee use of business intelligence tools and techniques; supervise the use of business intelligence tools (AI, Alteryx, PowerBI, SQL, Excel) by the M&E team to analyze and report learning outcomes, offering insights for continuous improvement.
7. Recommend outcome-oriented solutions and utilize stakeholder relationship skills and knowledge of standardized measurement toolkits to assist with performance consulting services, proposing learning solutions linked to business and performance outcomes.

Qualifications:

1. Minimum ten years of recent professional services experience, preferably in Audit or related field with a minimum of eight years focused on stakeholder or client relationship development with a focus on influencing stakeholder buy-in to ideas, concepts, data, results or recommendations; or learning and development with focus on instructional design, performance consulting, performance improvement, and measurement skills, including experience using a suite of business intelligence tools and applications for data and analytics (for example, PowerBI, Alteryx, Tableau, Excel, SQL, R, Python, AI) preferably with a large organization.
2. Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in related field a plus (D&A, data science, statistics, educational research/measurement, psychometrics, adult learning, instructional technology, instructional design, and more); Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university in accounting or auditing will be considered if other related field skills and experience requirements are met.
3. Demonstrated ability to successfully translate and communicate technical results to stakeholders to support stakeholder understanding and decision making.
4. Proven leadership skills and experience leading, managing, and coaching direct reports.
5. Track record of the ability to successfully translate program goals, opportunity statements, problem statements into needs analysis and/or program evaluation plans.
6. Experience with financial statement audit, attestation, or assurance services preferred.

Additional information about salary ranges, benefits, and legal compliance is included in the original description. The role is full-time, at the seniority level of Director, within the General Business function, based in Boulder, CO, with remote options as indicated.