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.

We have a new opportiunity for a Client Payroll Services Senior Manager to join the team.

The Senior Manager provides technical leadership, assurance and governance across Client Payroll Services. A highly technical payroll specialist the role is accountable for ensuring payroll quality, managing material payroll risk and building the standards, controls and capability needed for a scalable payroll service. The Senior Manager acts as ultimate escalation point for high risk issues and works across payroll delivery, and wider teams to protect client outcomes and support service maturity.  Consulting with colleagues to strengthen and develop the offering, support market initiatives, and provide clients with access to wider cross firm introductions.

KPMG’s Financial Services (FS) Corporate Tax team is growing, and we’re looking for a Senior Manager who wants to help shape the future of our practice. We work with an impressive portfolio of UK and global banks, insurers and asset managers, delivering complex advisory and compliance work and supporting clients through a rapidly evolving tax landscape.

Our team is friendly, collaborative and based across the UK — we’re highly experienced in working together remotely, and we welcome applicants from any location.

Join KPMG’s Governance, Risk and Compliance Services practice in London as an Assistant Manager, helping public and private sector clients strengthen governance, risk management, internal controls and assurance. You will work across a varied portfolio of internal audit and grants assurance engagements, with scope to tailor your focus to your experience and interests. You will manage and directly deliver assignments, build trusted client relationships, review evidence and reports, support engagement performance and contribute to business development. This is an opportunity for a qualified audit or assurance professional, including someone moving from external audit, to broaden their career in governance, risk and advisory work within a growing practice.