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.

SAP S/4 HANA Finance Enterprise Architect

The role of the SAP S/4 HANA Finance Enterprise Architect is to develop the UK Firm’s technology strategy for Finance and Engagement Management domain and translate this into a roadmap that determines our investment priorities and transformation portfolio. The technology strategy needs to promote a seamless, end-to-end customer and employee experience by enabling the efficient creation and modification of effective and reusable technology components. In particular, the strategy should promote the use of modern, Cloud-based technologies; support typical Finance use cases; challenge the business strategy based on emerging and future technology trends; and establish a catalogue that supports the reuse of new technology components, whilst targeting legacy applications and technology for decommissioning. The role should also help to execute and govern the strategy, by helping solution architects and projects to design solutions that are fit for purpose and conform to our standards and patterns.

Group Digital is the firm's primary provider of internal technology services, data, and innovation. We deliver secure, resilient, and standardised technology solutions that ensure our operations run seamlessly and empower colleagues to provide exceptional client service. 

The role of the Solution Architect is to help the Finance and Commercial domain deliver its business strategy through technology. They must work with technology implementation projects to translate the business requirements into detailed solution architecture designs; challenge the business strategy based on emerging and future technology trends; help business Capabilities to design and govern their technology roadmap, i.e. a portfolio of technology transformation projects that deliver the business and technology strategies; influence business and technology stakeholders to adopt the right technology solutions; and escalate risks, issues and critical dependencies to the appropriate leaders as required to ensure the successful delivery of the strategy.

The Tax Investigations team sits within the KPMG Private Client tax team, a fast-growing and integral part of the wider KPMG tax practice. In order to support further growth we are looking to appoint a Senior Manager to our Investigations Team.

We are looking for excellent candidates with a proven track record in this area who are seeking a dynamic and supportive working environment to help deliver quality advice to a varied portfolio of clients as well as support the growth of the business.

Our client base includes a portfolio of high net worth clients, entrepreneurs, high profile sports people and entertainers, shareholders and international individuals. You would be expected to lead the delivery of quality advice to our clients on tax dispute matters, lead on HMRC enquiry and disclosure projects and also provide wider disputes specialist knowledge to other KPMG teams in the firm including working with our tax litigation team.

We are looking for an exceptional Associate Director to join our InfraTech team within KPMG’s Infrastructure Advisory Group (IAG). IAG brings together more than 400 professionals to advise major public and private sector organisations on the strategy, investment, delivery and operation of infrastructure and asset-intensive businesses.

Infrastructure and asset-intensive organisations are under increasing pressure to improve performance, make better investment decisions and deliver more value from their assets. Digital technologies, connected assets and better use of data s.are central to this agenda. Our team works across sectors including real estate, transport, government, defence, energy, utilities, health and education, combining infrastructure expertise with digital, data and technology capabilities.