The Intellectual Property & Contract Governance team bring together expertise from accounting, auditing, IT and forensic to meet the needs of our clients who have recognised management of these "self-reported relationships" as a significant business issue.

Our core services include:

• Royalty and Licence Management Services where a client has royalty, licence or other income dependent on self reporting by a third party and is seeking to maximise revenue whilst protecting the relationship. Current clients include: software vendors, digital content owners, pharmaceutical manufacturers, and fashion brand owners.
• Channel Management where a client is looking to leverage maximum value from its routes to market. Current clients include computer hardware vendors, telecommunication manufacturers, and pharmaceutical manufacturers.
• Procurement reviews where a client is looking to ensure that a supplier, customer or other business partner has complied with the financial terms of a business relationship.
• Intellectual Asset Management where a client is looking to refine processes and controls around best practice IP management. For example, rationalisation / integration of a client's IP portfolio to help to understand what IP it owns, uses and protects, identify gaps in protection, plot future protection strategy, identify potential infringements of third party IP and ensure IP strategy is aligned with their overall business strategy

• You will be expected to co-ordinate and manage teams of professionals delivering projects relating to Royalty and Licence Management, Channel Management and Contract Assurance and to work as part of teams delivering other KIPS services.
• You will assist in promoting KIPS capabilities both internally and externally.
• Successful candidates must be commercially aware, with the ability to rapidly assimilate information and challenge issues that are identified.
• You will be undertaking reviews of the accounting and operational records, processes and controls of third party suppliers/customers on behalf of KPMG client/s and will need to be tenacious and resilient in obtaining the required information, often looking to derive coroborative information from a variety of different sources.
• You are likely to work away from the office on site visits and will need to be self-motivated and capable of representing the firm in a professional way.
• Good project management skills will be important.
• Experience of compliance programmes (not regulatory compliance) with some experience of Forensic Accounting or legal work is essential.
• A good understanding of the software and hardware industries would be beneficial but not essential, as would familiarity with licensing and distribution programmes.
• You will have good IT skills, particularly in Excel and Access.
• The role will include business planning, internal and external marketing and sales activity and management and delivery of client work.
• The role is based in London with travel throughout the UK, Europe and occasionally further afield.

• Have obtained a first class degree or relevant qualification.
• Be a highly motivated team player with strong communication skills.
• Demonstrate ability to be a potential leader with an innovative approach.
• Have strong presentation skills.
• Demonstrate your ability to establish good working relationships with a variety of individuals sometimes in contentious situations.
• Be thorough and tenacious, but fair and even handed.
• Be commercially aware.
• Have Royalty or licence audit experience.
• Compliance programmes in channel distribution or similar areas.
• Be IT literate, able to interrogate Access databases and competent user of Excel.
• We are especially interested in candidates with language skills and a desire to work in mainland