This role is for an innovative professional at director level with significant major project and construction experience. This role will work alongside our existing team to use their lived experience of the full project and programme lifecycle in the construction industry and their innovative acumen to solve complex delivery problems.

KPMG’s Infrastructure Group in the UK consists of c200 professionals and is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading independent business, financial and regulatory advisers in infrastructure. The group has won many awards, including Financial Advisor of the Year (Infrastructure Journal) for several years. The group has locations in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester, but is organised on a national basis, operating under a single national cost centre.

 

We provide in-depth advice on strategic, financial, regulatory and commercial issues driving investments in infrastructure across Transport, Power & Utilities, and Social Infrastructure in the UK and globally. Our work includes market and policy design, economic and regulatory analysis, deal structuring and execution, as well as strategic and transaction advice to enable private and public capital to fund infrastructure. We work closely with other functions within KPMG to advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, valuations, tax, accounting, and due diligence.

 

The utilities sector is the largest business area for the Infrastructure Group and encompasses work for large clients in the sector, including all of the leading UK energy and water companies as well as some of the largest utilities in Europe and beyond. We provide in-depth strategic and technical advice on corporate finance and corporate financial management, regulatory finance, regulatory policy, business and financial planning, cost assessment and benchmarking as well as other drivers affecting value. Our work combines elements of policy, finance, strategy and economics to assist our clients in structuring investments, securing financing, supporting regulatory regimes and maximising shareholder value. We are widely recognised by many industry stakeholders as market leaders influencing the future of the utilities sector.

 

Our business is continuously expanding and we are looking for high quality candidates to support our Power & Utilities business with a particular focus on cost assessment, modelling and benchmarking as well as financial analysis. This is to support the development of new service lines, building on the work already undertaken in the Group.

Our Transaction Services practice comprises approximately 500 people across the UK, organised to align to KPMG’s market orientated structure, and is at the heart of the Firm's agenda to increase its penetration of boardrooms and work with clients across the economic and transaction cycle.  Our team works closely with colleagues across Deal Advisory as well as Tax, Audit and other Advisory teams; it is a multi-disciplinary and international environment that sits right at the heart of our One Firm agenda. We are recruiting Associate Directors in our Private Equity, Financial Services, Corporates and Capital Markets teams across the UK to support the growth of our TS business.

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 boast an impressive client base across the commercial and public sectors, delivering lasting results on projects and programmes which are household names.

The Team

 

The Infrastructure Advisory Group (IAG), a part of KPMG Deal Advisory (DA), consists of c400 professionals in the UK and is widely recognised as a leading independent financial, business and regulatory adviser in the infrastructure space. IAG The IAG provides in-depth advice on strategic, financial, regulatory and commercial issues driving investments in infrastructure across Power & Utilities, Transport and Social Infrastructure in the UK and globally. Our work includes market and policy design, economic and regulatory analysis, deal structuring and execution, as well as strategic and transaction advice to enable private and public capital to fund infrastructure.

 

Power & Utilities (P&U) is one of the largest business units in the IAG with c80 professionals. It encompasses work for large corporates in the sector (energy, water and other utilities), as well as financial investors and infrastructure funds. We provide in-depth advice on corporate finance and corporate financial management, regulatory finance, regulatory policy, business and financial planning, cost assessment and benchmarking, as well as transactions. We are widely recognised by many industry stakeholders as market leaders influencing the future of the infrastructure and utilities sectors.

 

Our P&U business is currently divided into several practices including Finance, Regulation, Projects, Strategy, Benchmarking and Transactions and is continuously expanding with consistent double-digit growth over the last 12 years.

 

The Transactions team within IAG P&U is in charge of selling our P&U expertise around transactions. We provide two main services: regulatory & commercial due diligence, and financial advisory.

 

The team consists of five professionals and has direct access to the expertise of the wider P&U team. We have a plan to double the capacity of the team over the next year. As such we are looking for high quality candidates to support our growth and development of existing and new service lines, while building on the work already undertaken by the business. Our team comprises people from different nationalities and backgrounds and diversity is an important element of who we are.

 

Services provided by the Transactions team include:

• Regulatory & commercial due diligence
• Strategic and market analysis for potential acquisitions and corporate actions
• Financial advice
• Financial modelling, valuations

 

The Role

Based in London, as an Assistant Manager in the Transactions practice in P&U the individual will be responsible for:

• Providing advice on large and complex transactions and leveraging the specialist skills across the P&U team (strategy/market/regulation/regulatory finance/benchmarking etc)
• Providing financial advice on transactions
• Originating transaction-related advisory mandates in the P&U sector
• Building a strong network to promote our services
• Contributing to ensuring that KPMG's quality and risk management procedures are completed to the appropriate standard

 

The Candidate

The candidate should have:

• Strong academic background
• Experience of working on transactions in utilities and infrastructure, either with an M&A or a Consulting background
• Detailed understanding of transaction process and execution
• Ability to carry out financial analysis on transactions including different valuation methods
• Ability to work at pace and during intense periods of live transactions
• Excellent presentation and communications skills
• Strong commercial awareness