Assistant Manager - Commercial Advisory and Assurance - Planning, Scheduling and Project Controls

Job description

The team

KPMG’s Major Projects Advisory (MPA) team works with industry-leading organisations, helping to solve some of the biggest challenges in infrastructure. As a true market leader, we work with an impressive client base across the commercial and public sectors, delivering lasting results on projects and programmes which are household names.

We focus on providing clarity to Boards, Executives and SRO’s at major public and private sector organisations, on the delivery of their projects and programmes. We work on some of the UK’s most strategically important programmes, and across all infrastructure sectors including transport, natural resources, energy, power and utilities, corporates, oil & gas, defence, health, housing & education.

Our team comprises specialists with deep construction industry experience, from working for project owners, contractors, engineering consultants and others in the UK and overseas.

On the back of continuing growth, we’re once again investing in our team to drive a step change in our capability. This means you’ll be joining one of the fastest growing areas of the firm at a time of real significance.

The role

This role is for an innovative professional at Assistant Manager level, who can work alongside our existing team to use their lived experience of planning, scheduling and project controls in construction to solve complex problems. There is no one-size fits all in MPA; we’re as diverse as the world around us. We hand pick our people because they’re our most important asset, and people pick us because we really mean that.

Assistant Managers in our team are client-facing and right at the forefront of delivery. This role requires previous experience ideally gained from infrastructure-related projects and programmes, but we’ll happily consider candidates with experience in other relevant fields.

As part of a team of consultants on the ground, you’ll be applying your subject matter expertise and experience every day, bringing to life tailored solutions for our clients whilst managing important relationships.

The MPA team in the UK are based in London, Birmingham and Manchester. This role will be based in one of these locations but will require travel to client locations throughout the UK and occasionally overseas.

The team member

For this opportunity, we’re looking for candidates with some post-qualification experience primarily built around the planning, scheduling and project controls area of major projects and programmes. This could be as a contractor, consultant, or within a government role.

Your track record should evidence:

• A good, applied understanding of planning including managing tasks in relation to the development, update, monitoring and reporting of schedules; risk management; change control; identification of opportunities for improvement and implementation of best practice
• Experience in major projects and programmes, ideally in infrastructure of  one of our priority sectors of transport, defence, power and utilities or nuclear
• Investigating schedule and cost performance, defining variance, causes and providing mitigating options
• Developing tools and reports to support project controls processes
• Risk identification and analysis
• Project and programme performance  monitoring and assurance
• Strong problem-solving skills
• An ability to build and maintain great relationships and a desire to network across our firm
• Communication and presentation skills
• A desire to learn and develop new skills within planning and project controls
• Proficiency in using Excel, MS Project and Oracle P6

Experience in one of the following areas would also help you stand out – but it’s not essential:

• Public sector experience
• Delay and scenario analysis
• Dispute advisory or expert witness experience
• Supporting the delivery of advisory services such as organisational design and governance optimisation
• Performance and efficiency improvement
• Enhancing project and programme controls
• Troubled project/programme reviews
• Achieved or working towards a relevant professional certification – e.g. APM PMQ/PPQ; MoP; MSP; PRINCE2
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Specifically, your day-to-day involves:

• Being part of high-performing, multi-disciplinary consulting teams with different backgrounds and experience
• Supporting and managing the delivery of client-facing work within specialist areas, ensuring new processes and tools are designed with a strong end-user focus. This includes producing high-quality outputs with serious attention to detail
• Advising our clients on planning strategies and different scenarios, identifying the impact of these scenarios on their goals
• Keeping up to date with specific technical developments affecting your work, identifying opportunities for thought leadership and assisting with the development of a KPMG view in your specific technical area
• Understanding the broader suite of services offered by KPMG and identifying opportunities to collaborate and design unique solutions for our clients
• Coaching and mentoring your colleagues – both up and down
• Being a role model and living our values