KPMG’s Strategy & Performance Transformation practice is looking for exceptional candidates for a Director role, with a sector focus on the Consumer, Retail & Leisure industry and with particular experience in Deal Strategy, one of our core propositions. Additional experience across our other propositions - Growth Strategy, Cost and Operational strategy (including Economic Profitability Analysis) and Enterprise-wide Transformation - will also be valuable.

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The Powered Apps teams are communities of business and technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver KPMG Powered Enterprise through a standardised delivery model. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g. Finance, Supply Chain, Procurement), technology expertise (S/4HANA, CFin, RISE, BTP, MDG, etc.) and SAP SaaS applications (Ariba, SuccessFactors, etc.) to enable customers run successful business transformation programmes enabled by SAP technology.

Deal Advisory Tax is a dynamic and successful area of KPMG’s Tax & Legal business.  We have an inclusive and collaborative leadership strategy and are making bold changes to our culture and how we work.  A constantly changing and high-profile field, we work in a fast-paced, challenging and rewarding environment, and can offer a broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people.

KPMG’s Infrastructure Group in the UK consists of c.400 professionals and is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading independent financial and business advisers in infrastructure.
We provide in-depth advice on the strategic, financial, regulatory and commercial issues driving investments in infrastructure across Transport, Power & Utilities, and Social Infrastructure in the UK and internationally. Our work includes market and policy design, economic analysis, deal structuring and execution, as well as strategic and transaction advice to enable private and public capital to fund infrastructure. We also work closely with other functions within KPMG to advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, valuations, tax, accounting, and due diligence.

The utilities sector is a key business area for the Infrastructure Group and encompasses work for the large clients in the sector including all of the leading UK energy and water companies. We provide in depth strategic and technical advice on corporate finance issues, corporate financial management; regulatory finance, regulatory policy, business and financial planning, as well as other issues affecting value. We are widely recognised by many industry stakeholders as one of the most innovative advisors influencing the future of the sector.

Our business is expanding rapidly and we are looking for a high-quality candidate to support our Power & Utilities business, with a particular focus on the water sector.

The Role
 

• You would be joining the leading provider of strategic economic consultancy services in the water sector.
• While you will have specific responsibilities for contributing towards the team’s water business, there will also be opportunities to work in other sectors, primarily energy networks.
• Working closely with sector and subject matter experts you will develop to become the ‘go to’ person for water sector economic advice. This will involve developing an in-depth understanding of Ofwat’s regulatory framework.
• You will build relationships with key clients across the sector, as well as with other advisors (e.g., legal and engineering. The projects that you will advise on will be high profile and caried. For example, in recent years we have advised on the regulatory framework for the Thames Tideway Tunnel, every aspect of water companies' business plans, bulk supply trading negotiations, Competition and Markets Authority re-determinations, major transactions, organisational transformations, and much more. If there is a large strategic project taking place in the sector, the chances are we will be advising on it. 
• There is no ‘typical project’. You will need to apply a structured strategic approach to problem solving, drawing on established economic principles, while having the capacity to think creatively.  
• The work will include a combination of report drafting, economic analysis, and engaging with clients. 
• You will need to be comfortable managing, coaching, and mentoring junior staff across a number of projects. 
• You will contribute towards building the team, identifying opportunities in the market, and providing thought leadership. 

Job Title/Req Number: Corporate Intelligence Analyst

Base Location: UK

Summary of Role Purpose:

The Corporate Intelligence team is looking for a Chinese speaking intelligence analyst. You will help us grow our business and help clients identify and address key reputational and regulatory risks.

Description of the role:

You should expect to be involved in a wide range of challenging engagements, ranging from investigations and litigation support, integrity due diligence, third party risk management and ESG due diligence.

Your role will include iterative research, retrieval and analysis of public record information and drafting of succinct, actionable intelligence reports. The main responsibilities for Research Analysts will include:

• Conducting desktop-based research in Simplified Chinese and other relevant languages. Using a variety of specialist database resources, covering a wide range of corporate, media, credit and regulatory data across China and other jurisdictions;
• Conducting intuitive and creative research using a variety of other online and offline public record sources, especially corporate registries and databases in a variety of countries and languages;
• Sourcing public record information from manual and offline sources, including using external third parties where necessary;
• Combining the above skills to draft and deliver time-critical, succinct and actionable intelligence reports to clients, both internal and external;
• Assisting in the preparation of proposals to clients and supporting the marketing efforts of the Corporate Intelligence team;
• Assisting in the tasking of external third party sources;
• Enhancing the team’s understanding of geopolitical and business risks/opportunities in the Greater China region and the wider APAC region; and,
• Supporting the development of research, thought leadership, and other marketing efforts for the corporate intelligence team.

Role dimensions:

Leadership & Management:

You will be the team’s subject matter expert for the Greater China region, acting as the go-to expert for key research tools in the region as well as business, reputation, integrity and geopolitical risk trends. You may be asked to instruct and manage external researchers and contractors. You will work with other team members to ensure the team’s research, tools and knowledge are up-to-date in your region.

Stakeholder Interaction & challenges:

You will work with experienced senior Corporate Intelligence and wider Forensic team members, conducting independent research and drafting reports. You will have to manage your time to meet competing client deadlines. You may be invited to assist with client calls and proposals, present or contribute thought leadership.

Impact, Risk, Accountability & Governance:

Your key responsibilities will include the timely delivery of succinct, high quality intelligence reports, and maintaining an audit trail of relevant findings. You will be accountable for the quality and accuracy of your research and findings.

The Person:

Essential experience

• 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 Mandarin with the ability to conduct research, interview sources, and translate accurately. Additional foreign languages are a plus (preferred languages are Russian, German, Dutch, Arabic, Italian);
• Demonstrable understanding of business risks/opportunities in the Greater China region and the wider APAC region;
• Some relevant work experience, which might be market research, political risk an