Assistant Managers- TVP- Transaction Services

Job description

AutoReq ID

140230BR

Job Title

Assistant Managers- TVP- Transaction Services

Country

United Kingdom

Location

London

Function

Deal Advisory

Service Line

Transaction Services

Service Line Information

Our Transactions Services group is focused on continually enhancing value for clients across the deal and economic cycle. Our teams comprise of specialists capable of helping clients right through from conceptual thinking of buying a business to turning their business around in times of difficulty.

KPMG Overview

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax & Pensions, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.

Job Description

The Team

KPMG’s Advisory business, one of three major units within KPMG (along with Audit and Tax), generates approximately £1.95bn per year and has 11,000 employees in the UK alone. Deal Advisory represents approximately £386m net revenues for Advisory, and comprises a range of specialist teams including M&A, Restructuring and Transactions Service

The Target Value Platform (TVP) team sits within Deal Advisory, with a primary focus on Private Equity. The TVP team has developed a new innovative approach to providing Commercial, Operational and Value Creation services to both Private Equity and Corporate clients. The approach leverages both technology and the breadth of KPMG functional expertise across the firm.

TVP, a team of c.16 professionals, is now looking to further grown its Operational Due Diligence (ODD) team by over 40 people. We are looking for high calibre candidates to join our team and be part of our exciting growth story.

The Role

- Support and manage Operational Due Diligence, stand alone cost assessments and Corporate Performance improvement projects from start to finish.
- This includes setting scopes, budgets, staffing resources, generating information/data requests, leading client and target workshops, creating and coordinating final deliverables, and assisting with presentation of results
- Work full time on engagements to help ensure successful problem formulation, hypotheses generation, comprehensive analysis in testing hypotheses, and problem resolution.
- Work with KPMG and client staff team members to create value-add insights that tie to the client’s strategic and financial ambitions, including identifying the underlying value proposition and challenging the client’s near and long term investment thesis through structured data analyses to identify operational risks, efficiencies, or other opportunities
- Help with proposal development and other new business development activities, where possible growing your personal network with deal makers across Corporate and Private Equity clients

The Person:

- Strong experience in a consulting related discipline at a Big 4 firm, major strategy firm, or boutique firm; ideally within a deals environment
- Experience in at least one of the following consulting areas: transaction and business due diligence, operational and performance improvement, strategic growth, or other relevant strategy experience
- Bachelor's degree qualification or equivalent
- Strong business acumen, with analytical and problem solving skills and ability to understand how business model decisions impact operating model design/execution across operations, technology, risk governance and organizational design
- Comfort with ambiguity and fluid consulting situations
- Ability to travel at a significant level

Multiple position available
Opening Date: 06/12/2018
Closing Date: 03/01/2019
Competitive salary plus negotiable bonus and benefits

Our Deal

If the chance to work with interesting clients and innovative technology wasn’t rewarding enough, we’ll motivate you in other ways too. At KPMG you can expect real responsibilities and opportunities to grow professionally.

‘Our Deal’ sets out all the different ways you’ll be rewarded at KPMG. Among other things you can benefit from honest conversations about your career as well as a range of other rewards. In all these ways and more, we have created an environment that can bring out the best in you.

Flexible Working

While some of our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, we are supportive where possible of helping you to achieve a balance between your home and work demands.

We are happy to discuss individual requirements and our range of flexible working arrangements could be of interest. Furthermore, as part of the recruitment process, we can put you in touch with people who work flexibly so you can understand from them what our culture is like.

Applying with a Disability

KPMG are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity employer and we seek to attract and retain the best people from the widest possible talent pool. As a member of the Business Disability Forum we're committed to ensuring that you are treated fairly throughout our Recruitment Process. Should you be successful after the initial application stage, please discuss any reasonable adjustments that you may require, with your recruitment contact.

KPMG's commitment to diversity

We are proud of the value we place on individuality; we want you to bring your full self to work and truly maximise your potential. We believe that your individuality helps us to deliver the best results for our clients. Diversity of background, diversity of experience, diversity of perspective - that's the KPMG difference. But, don't take our word for it, find out more about diversity at KPMG.

Returning to work after a break
At KPMG, we appreciate that returning to work after an extended career break can be daunting. We understand that those with experience who have taken a career break have a wealth of experience and knowledge to offer our organisation, which helps us to achieve our business goals. We will support you to refresh your skills, develop your confidence and provide a supportive network across the firm to help you best integrate into the working environment. This role welcomes applications for individuals who have been out of work for 18 months or more and who have previous relevant experience.

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