Associate Director - Deal Execution - Integration & Separation

KPMG’s Deal Execution practice is looking for exceptional candidates for an Associate Director role. The Deal Execution team is part of KPMG’s rapidly expanding Strategy Group, which delivers value for clients by challenging conventional thinking, bringing deep industry and functional insights and executing with investor-grade rigour.  We are a diverse team working collaboratively with and orchestrating KPMG’s broad set of capabilities within our Deal Advisory business, and are 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.

The Deal Execution Advisory Team

KPMG's Deal Execution Advisory Team is a growing and dynamic team. We work with both vendors and acquirers on mergers, acquisitions, divestments, exits and joint ventures, both pre and post-deal.

The team offers four key proposition areas:

Separation: Supporting vendors to plan and deliver a credible, discrete standalone entity to the Buyer with value preserved and business continuity in place from Day 1, including supporting the definition and implementation of transitional service agreements.

Integration: Pre and post deal integration design, planning and implementation to integrate the target business into the Buyer’s organisation whilst mitigating risk and enhancing value.

Synergies: Understanding the potential benefits and costs generated through a proposed transaction, and the associated plans, interdependencies, risks and issues for the delivery of base and stretch case targets.

Joint Ventures: Helping respective partners ensure the key value considerations are identified and prioritised early and delivered through the associated business plan, leveraging each party’s specific contribution and capabilities and managing broader stakeholder relationships.

Deputy Chief Economist - Senior Manager

KPMG’s macroeconomics team works with the firm’s Chief Economist for EMEA to develop the firm’s views and advice on the economic outlook. The team produces a range of regular forecasts and economic outlook reports, as well as themed research on issues relevant to our clients. The team also provides bespoke client briefings and presentations.

Requirement:

We are looking to recruit a Deputy Chief Economist to join our team. Their responsibilities will include:

• Coordinating the team’s activities and deliverables
• Developing the team’s relationships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Design and lead economic analysis on a range of topics relevant to our business
• Engage with our clients on economic issues, through speaking at public and KPMG events as well as client meetings
• Lead the team’s input into KPMG’s client work  

Experience required

• A 2.1 or First class undergraduate degree and a good Masters’ degree in economics from a top rated university with significant macroeconomics content
• Significant demonstratable experience in writing economic outlook reports and carrying out macroeconomics-related research
• Experience in modelling and forecasting 

Emerging Giants
KPMG Private Enterprise is one of the firm’s global strategic priorities. The key focus areas include Family Business, Family Office and Emerging Giants. From early stage funding advice to planning an exit, KPMG Private Enterprise (KPE) teams support privately owned businesses with their growth agendas throughout the UK. Whether businesses are establishing or scaling a new venture, planning an investment or exit, we’re here to support them. Our multidisciplinary KPMG Private Enterprise teams are working across the country to support privately-owned business to grow and help them to make well-informed choices to drive value and deliver outstanding results with confidence. ​

KPMG has an established Emerging Giants team nationally and globally. The Emerging Giants practice brings focus to the fastest growing, most ambitious and high potential businesses who need a different type of support – different types of services delivered differently, whether that be access to knowledge and insight, access to talent, access to customers and new markets or preparing to access funding and investment.​

Across the UK we work collaboratively with strategic partners and networks in the tech ecosystem to support businesses to scale and grow, creating commercial opportunities for KPMG and a pipeline of clients of the future.

As a Senior Manager in the Emerging Giants team, you will assume a dual leadership role:

We are seeking an experienced, skilled, and proactive Platform Engineering Lead to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in establishing and leading a new engineering vertical within ATDT, shaping a modern engineering tower to support developers and cloud engineers. You will oversee the design, development, and maintenance of cloud platform solutions, enabling seamless integration of modern engineering techniques across the team.

In addition, you will lead a team of engineers, including specialists in both traditional infrastructure and Azure DevOps, ensuring the stability, availability, and security of the Azure platforms used by product developers.

KPMG has one of the leading Indirect Tax practices in the UK. We work as a national practice providing advice and support in all aspects of Indirect Tax (VAT, Customs Duty, Green taxes) to a broad range of business sectors including large multi-nationals, household name retailers, public sector organisations and Financial Services.  The Indirect Tax practice is a fast-growing and dynamic business, currently with approximately 200 professional staff located across the UK.  We work to support our portfolio of clients with a variety of Indirect tax issues. 

In order to support our plans for our North of England Indirect Tax team, we are looking to recruit a motivated individual with a commercial edge who is seeking a real challenge, at Director level across our Indirect Tax business, to build on our successes to date and help us achieve our growth targets.

Joining KPMG means joining a talented team of exceptional colleagues who bring innovative thoughts and a natural curiosity to the work they do each day. No one type of person succeeds at KPMG; a diverse business requires diverse personalities, characters and perspectives. There really is a place for you here.