Corporate Intelligence Assistant Manager

Job description

The Corporate Intelligence team is an expanding part of KPMG Consulting. The team helps clients address a variety of reputational and regulatory risks in different contexts, from market entry to transactional due diligence and supply chain risk management. The team works closely together with other parts of KPMG, including supporting the rest of the KPMG Forensic team on regulatory investigations and the Global Strategy Group on market entry and growth.

The team is made up of specialists with a range of regional and language expertise, and is focused on work in the EMEA region and Latin America. We are seeking research analysts to join the team in our London office.

As part of the Corporate Intelligence team, you will be involved in projects in the following three service lines:

1. Strategic intelligence, including country risk assessments and market-entry support;
2. Transactional due diligence, both bespoke due diligence on partners and acquisition targets and large-scale third-party risk management programmes; and
3. Investigative services, including asset tracing and litigation support.

Responsibilities

Candidates will have demonstrable experience of working across all key Corporate Intelligence service lines and delivering Corporate Intelligence assignments to clients with limited supervision.

The role will also require you to support the CI team through business development, both internally in accordance with efforts to deliver connected consulting offerings alongside other teams such as Strategy and Deal Advisory, and externally via direct engagement with prospects and existing clients.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Ability to undertake Corporate Intelligence research with limited supervision to support projects across all key Corporate Intelligence services, including strategic intelligence and integrity due diligence;
• Ability to independently manage human intelligence sources and nuanced understanding of the difference between evidence and intelligence;
• Ability to present complex findings in clear, well-structured and reader-friendly reports that require limited review from senior management;
• Familiarity with key research tools and databases, including corporate registries in key jurisdictions, Factiva, Lexis Nexis and i2;
• Familiarity with all phases of a project’s lifecycle, including set-up, billing and risk procedures;
• Ability to respond to new client requests with proposals, demonstrating a good understanding of typical scopes, budgets and timelines depending on client requirements;
• Willingness to enhance the team’s network of contacts and understanding of business risks/opportunities in at least one geographical region; and
• Willingness to develop and support on thought leadership and other BD/marketing efforts.

Required Experience and Skills

• 3-5 years’ experience undertaking Corporate Intelligence work, in at least two of the three Corporate Intelligence service lines (see above);
• Very strong academic qualifications, ideally in politics, international relations, languages or other disciplines in social science;
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and oral;
• Fluency in at least one (ideally two) foreign languages with the ability to conduct research and translate accurately. Preferred languages are Spanish, Portuguese, French, Russian, Italian and Turkish;
• Ability to work under pressure and meet exacting deadlines;
• Ability to cope with multiple conflicting client demands and to manage peaks and troughs of demand to ensure a consistent high quality service;
• Ability to operate in a discreet and confidential manner; and
• Drive and commitment to deliver a high quality service.