Join KPMG's Governance, Risk and Compliance Services practice in Manchester, helping public and private sector clients strengthen governance, manage risk and improve internal controls. As an Assistant Manager, you will manage and deliver internal audit and advisory engagements across a varied UK-wide portfolio, from planning and fieldwork through to reporting and Audit Committee papers. You will work closely with senior client stakeholders, colleagues across KPMG Advisory and specialists in areas such as technology and cyber risk to provide clear, practical assurance and advice. This role offers broad client exposure, responsibility for engagement delivery and finances, and opportunities to coach colleagues and contribute to business development within a growing team. 

Join KPMG's Major Projects Advisory team and help clients make critical business and investment decisions that create lasting value. As part of Programme Advisory and Capital Excellence (PACE), you will work with multidisciplinary experts to strengthen the delivery of major projects and programmes across public and private sector organisations. You will support high-profile client work, shape delivery approaches and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders. This is an opportunity to grow within a fast-developing, collaborative team while gaining hands-on exposure to some of the UK's most significant programmes. 

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.

The Partner Relations (“PR”) Lead role reports to the Head of Partnership office with a secondary reporting line to the Head of Employee Relations.  The PR Lead is accountable for the day-to-day leadership of Partner Relations. The role provides pastoral support and access to confidential support to our partners including wellbeing matters together with oversight of complex and senior case management, ensuring consistent, timely and compliant outcomes.  The PR Lead provides deep expertise on partner related ER matters, bringing external market knowledge around competitor activity and industry trends, and acting as an ambassador for KPMG through effective networking.

The PR Lead works collaboratively with the Partnership Office, Employee Relations team, senior business leaders, the Employment Law Advisory Team (“ELAT”), and HR Directors to set Employee Relations (“ER”) standards within the partnership and drive a robust and high-performance culture. The role provides high touch support for Equity Partners, and plays a key role in shaping wider ER strategy, policy and service evolution within the partnership.