Manager, Deal Execution, People in M&A Centre of Excellence

Manager, Deal Execution, People in M&A Centre of Excellence

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KPMG’s Deal Execution practice is looking for exceptional candidates for a Manager role with a People-focused specialism in deals & transformations to join the People in M&A Centre of Excellence.

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 of over 105 practitioners, working collaboratively with and orchestrating KPMG’s broad set of capabilities within our 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.

Why join KPMG in our M&A Centre of Excellence?

The People in M&A Centre of Excellence deals with all aspects of the employee journey in M&A, as well as leveraging our experience to enact transformational change outside of a deal context. From early-stage strategy development and organisational design for carve-outs, to synergy cases and cost benefits, employee experience and corporate culture, employee transfer, through to the conception, development and management of effective transformational solutions to help an organisation achieve its ambitions and objectives.

Why Join KPMG as Manager in Deal Execution?

The Manager role is a key role to the team, being the bedrock of project lead and delivery whilst working alongside the leadership of global organisations. We work across various sectors although there is the opportunity to specialise in a specific area.

Our four key client proposition areas are:

· Employee experience: Executing an engagement program that addresses the impact to the employee, ensuring that if presented a choice, the employees would have joined the company independently of the deal

· Organisational strategy development: Developing the organisation design, people strategy, operating model, synergies and value enhancements for a carve-out or standalone operation

· Labour relations and compliance: Ensuring the labour and HR risks and obligations are fully understood and effectively managed globally to deliver on the deal timelines and planned integration changes

· HR operations: HR operations focuses on how HR will deliver services to the organisation through the deal, and post close, in the most cost effective and efficient manner, which provides the highest level of service to the employee

Team members are not expected to be able to have all skill sets. We believe heavily in the development of our people. Managers have access to significant internal and external courses, coaching and performance management, to help develop and rapidly build their careers.

What will you be doing?

· Lead the HR/OD workstream on integrations and separations, working with and supporting the client workstream leads

· Analysing and data to comment on the people elements of the business including cost, people and legal issues such as TUPE or unions, systems and HR contracts

· Providing insights on people aspects of the deal that are relevant to the client and readers of the due diligence reports and to be able to explain issues simply, highlighting the impact of people on business strategy, operations and deal valuation

· Developing an understanding of people benchmarks and qualitative information to provide insights to clients to describe a typical headcount, design and associated cost

· Work with the client to scope the critical success factors for the transformation project and factor these into the overall planning considerations

· Proactively identify and mitigate risks and threats to the successful execution, implementation and maintenance of transformational change early in the project

What will you need to do it?

· A good understanding of or background in HR, OD or Strategy, ideally in a M&A environment.

· Experience of working on M&A projects and understanding of consultation is beneficial

· People specialism such as: People strategy, TUPE, HR functions, processes and technology, Union engagement, best practice organisational design, employee engagement, talent analysis, recruitment and retention. (Not all specialisms are required and a deep understanding in one area could be sufficient)

· Leading and facilitation of client meetings, workshops and interviews.

· An understanding of the market drivers, challenges and opportunities impacting our client’s strategies and priorities, enabling them to position solutions and ideas which take these into account

Skills we’d love to see/Amazing Extras:

· Bachelor's degree qualification. Professional qualifications welcome

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills including reporting.

· Ability to work well under pressure, learn quickly and leverage skills in new situations Experience of developing and preparing business development pitches in the People sector

· Ability to work effectively, influence and challenge senior people (client and internal)

· Demonstrate curiosity and innovation, striving for continuous improvement, exercising professional judgement, and making a positive and lasting impact.

To discuss this or wider Deal Advisory roles with our recruitment team, all you need to do is apply, create a profile, upload your CV and begin to make your mark with KPMG.

Our Locations: We are open to talk to major projects advisory talent across the country but our core hubs for this role are:

· London Canary Wharf

· Manchester

· Birmingham

With 20 sites across the UK, we can potentially facilitate office work, working from home, flexible hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please register and discuss this with our team.

Find out more:

Within Deal Advisory we have a range of divisions and specialisms. Click the links to find out more below: · Deal Advisory at KPMG: https://kpmg.com/uk/en/home/services/deal-advisory.html · ESG at KPMG: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/our-esg-journey/ ·

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