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KPMG's Integration Financial Services Advisory Team works with both acquirers and vendors on pre- and post-deal Integration and Separation issues related to M&A or similar transactions. There are key proposition areas:


- Synergy evaluation – understanding the potential benefits and costs of a transaction.
- Pre-completion planning – developing high level plans for the first 100 days by workstream, setting up programme governance and developing Day 1 plans to take control.
- First 100 days and long term implementation – fully mobilised integration team with a prioritised set of opportunities and realisation of quick wins.
- Second wave integration – a refocused, re-energised integration process to capture the originally envisaged benefits of the deal.
- Demerger and Separation – understanding the separation options and giving assistance to deliver a credible, discrete standalone entity on Day 1 with value preserved and business continuity ensured.


We work closely alongside our colleagues within KPMG's Transaction Services who conduct financial, commercial and operational due diligence, providing an integrated and value-adding service to our clients to help make their transactions successful.


We work regularly on 'front page headline' deals for a client base comprising a wide range of publicly listed corporates, private companies, private equity houses and public sector organisations.


The Role


- Providing day to day support to project office activities, and lead PMO activities on small to medium sized engagements.
- Lead analytics on synergy and separation type projects and be responsible for first draft of significant sections, if not all, synergy commentary reports.
- Lead the support to a number of workstreams on integration / separation projects, supporting client workstream leads to fulfil their workstream objectives.
- Ownership and maintenance of financial models on an engagement and on larger engagements oversee the work of more junior staff.
- Contribution of content for sections of reports/deliverables on separation and integration projects.
When you are not working on a project, you will provide support to senior colleagues in preparation of proposal materials.

You will need to be willing to travel as we mainly work from client sites and have a global portfolio of clients. The length of a project can be anywhere from one week to one year, although a typical project will last a few weeks and we would aim to give you as diverse an experience as possible.

The Person


- Experience working within a Financial Services Deals/M&A environment ideally within the Integration & Separation space.
- Project/programme management experience ideally from working on complex/large scale projects.
- Financial awareness
- Presentation (oral and written)
- Good client relationship skills
- Analysis and problem solving
- Report writing
- Strong team player - we pride ourselves on the way we work with and support each other.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to demonstrate personal impact, flexibility, drive and commitment.
- A desire to broaden your current skillset and an embrace the opportunity to work at client sites with a relatively high level of autonomy.
- You should be comfortable working in the high pressured yet often ambiguous and flexible conditions that characterise

The Team


KPMG's Financial Services Integration Advisory Team works with both acquirers and vendors on pre- and post-deal Integration and Separation issues related to M&A or similar transactions. There are five key proposition areas:

- Synergy evaluation – understanding the potential benefits and costs of a transaction.
- Pre-completion planning – developing high level plans for the first 100 days by workstream, setting up programme governance and developing Day 1 plans to take control.
- First 100 days and long term implementation – fully mobilised integration team with a prioritised set of opportunities and realisation of quick wins.
- Second wave integration – a refocused, re-energised integration process to capture the originally envisaged benefits of the deal.
- Demerger and Separation – understanding the separation options and giving assistance to deliver a credible, discrete standalone entity on Day 1 with value preserved and business continuity ensured.

We work closely alongside our colleagues within KPMG's Transaction Services who conduct financial, commercial and operational due diligence, providing an integrated and value-adding service to our clients to help make their transactions successful.

We work regularly on 'front page headline' deals for a client base comprising a wide range of publicly listed corporates, private companies, private equity houses and public sector organisations.

The Role


- Delivering high levels of client satisfaction throughout the engagement, covering all client interactions and updates, deliverables and outputs
- Challenging our people to be curious and innovative on all engagements and internal work, to ensure outcomes are commercially focussed, value adding and effectively executed
- Production of the initial draft updates, outputs and deliverables to required timescale and ahead of Partner / Director review – responsibility on major deals may be focussed on a discrete section or element of the report
- Project manage a workstream or number of workstreams on a major deal or have overall responsibility for a medium scale engagement, covering deal strategy and synergy reviews; pre deal integration and separation and Day One Planning; to post deal integration and separation planning and implementation
- Supporting client pitches, proposals and internal/ external marketing initiatives
- Being seen as a role model, ensuring our core values are maintained, and coaching, mentoring and supporting our people to help them reach their full potential
- Ensure KPMG engagement quality and risk management procedures are consistently applied on each engagement to protect the interests of our clients as well as KPMG
- You will need to be willing to travel as we mainly work from client sites and have a global portfolio of clients. The length of a project can be anywhere from one week to one year, although a typical project will last a few weeks and we would aim to give you as diverse an experience as possible.

The Person


- Experience working within the Financial Services Deals/M&A environment ideally within the Integration & Separation space.
- Project/programme management experience ideally from working on complex/large scale projects.
- 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
- Possess a genuine interest in building and commercialising relationships having the ability to interact with our clients on a consultative manner as a trusted advisor
- Demonstrate curiosity and innovation, striving for continuous improvement, exercising professional judgement and making a positive and lasting impact
- Commitment and ambition to develop personally and professionally to achieve their full potential, acting as a role model, coach and colleague to other team members
- Financial awareness
- Presentation (oral and written)
- Good client relationship skills
- Analysis and problem solving
- Report writing
- Strong team player - we pride ourselves on the way we work with and support each other.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to demonstrate personal impact, flexibility, drive and commitment.
- A desire to broaden your current skillset and an embrace the opportunity to work at client sites with a relatively high level of autonomy.
- Individuals should be comfortable working in the high pressured yet often ambiguous and flexible conditions that characterise transactions

The Team


KPMG is a market leader in providing Deal Advisory services to clients when they are buying, selling, or transforming businesses. The HR M&A team is a specialist team within Deal Advisory and has been helping clients with their people related issues in M&A for over 12 years. We work at the forefront of transactions, helping both acquirers and vendors on pre- and post-deal people and organisational issues related to M&A.

KPMG research routinely shows that one of the biggest reasons for deals failing is people, our team helps to mitigate this. We deal with all aspects of the employee journey in M&A, from early stage strategy development and organisational design for carve-outs, to synergy cases and cost benefits, employee experience and corporate cultures, developing TUPE transfer processes and Union negotiation strategies. We work together to develop solutions to the issues our clients may face, and understand the financial benefits or risks that may be present from a people perspective

The Associate Director role is a key role to the team, developing our practice and proposition areas, leading and delivering global projects, and working alongside the C-suite of global organisations. We believe heavily in the development of our people. Associate Directors will work alongside Partners and Directors, providing one to one coaching as well significant internal and external courses, and performance management, to help develop them and rapidly build their careers.

Our four key client proposition areas are

- Employee Experience
- Organisational Strategy Development
- Labour Relations & Compliance
- HR Operations

The existing members of the team have specialisms in one or multiple areas. Associate Directors are not expected to have all skill sets, but to lead teams to deliver on these areas.

The Role


In this role, you will work and lead projects, working closely alongside senior members of the team, who will provide guidance and insight into the deal environment, enabling you to build your transactions knowledge and further develop your People, Organisational Design, Strategy and HR skills base.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Leading medium to large sized engagements and being the day to day HR support for clients on these engagements.
Due Diligence
- Leading, contributing to and reviewing Integration and Separation related deal and transaction reports from a people or strategy perspective.
- Commenting on the people elements of the business including cost, numbers, people and legal issues such as TUPE or unions, and 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, ultimately, deal valuation.
- Developing an understanding of people benchmarks and qualitative information to provide insights to clients to describe a typical organisational / functional headcount, design and associated cost.
Integration & Separation
- Advising on people, strategy and organisational design aspects of integration, separation (carve outs) and optimisation initiatives (e.g. synergy analysis) including the development of target operating models, understanding the current people landscape, defining transitional service agreements, developing detailed plans, and supporting the implementation.
- Lead the HR/Organisational Design workstream in integrations and separations within a larger team of Integration & Separation colleagues, working and supporting the client workstream leads.
- Facilitation and leading key client workshops and meetings.
- Lead identification or review of client synergies for people and the wider organisation design.

Wider responsibilities
- Interacting with senior client stakeholders as well as internal stakeholders.
- Responsibility for ensuring engagement management protocols are followed and kept up to date including quality and risk management.
- When not working on a project, provide support to a number of different aspects such as preparation of proposal materials, development of propositions etc.
- Given the nature of this role, ability to travel to meet client requirements is a must.

Skills, qualifications and experience required


Working in a consulting firm and/or industry role within HR, leading and delivering M&A projects including:
• Planning to implementation of integration and/or separation People-related workstreams including organisational design, people transition, culture and employee experience
• HR due diligence (buy and sell side) to identify risks and understand value related items which need to be incorporated into the deal documentation and price
• HR processes and employment law aspects such as TUPE transfers, restructuring and redundancy, union negotiation and workers agreements globally.
• Financial analysis of deals from a people/organisational cost and synergy perspective.
• Employee Engagement including day one communications & culture
• Organisational design and strategic/financial options for organisations or functions.
Skills:
- Leading and facilitation of client meetings, workshops and interviews.
- Team management including experience in development and growth of teams
- Leading, scoping and delivering client proposals and pitches
- Programme management experience and track record of successful delivery of projects.
- Comfort with ambiguity, fluid consulting situations and a highly pressured environment.
- Fluency in a European language would be beneficial.

The Team


The Technology in M&A team at KPMG is a growing and dynamic team.
We deal with all aspects of the technology function, from strategy to reviewing technology spend.
We work with both acquirers and vendors on pre- and post-deal technology issues. Our three key client proposition areas are:

1) Due diligence: Highlighting key risks and opportunities in the target’s technology environment in order to ensure that acquirers are aware of key issues that may impact valuation.
2) Integration: Planning pre and post deal to support the client to integrate the IT function and systems into the Buyer’s organisation whilst enhancing value.
Separation: Supporting Vendors to plan and deliver a credible, discrete standalone entity on Day 1 to the Buyer with value preserved and business continuity ensured from an IT perspective including support to define and implement transitional service agreements.

The Role


You will deliver projects working closely alongside senior members of the team, who will provide guidance and insight in the deal environment. This will provide you with the opportunity to build your transactions knowledge and further develop your technology skills base.

Your responsibilities will include:

Due Diligence

- Delivering and reviewing technology related deal and transaction reports
- Analysing and data mapping to comment on the technology of the business including cost, products and systems and IT contracts
- Providing insights on IT aspects of the deal that are relevant to the client and readers of the IT due diligence reports and to be able to explain issues simply, highlighting the impact of technology on business strategy, operations and, ultimately, deal valuation.
- Developing an understanding of IT benchmark and qualitative information to provide insights to clients to describe a typical IT function
- Contributing content for sections of reports/deliverables
Integration & Separation
- Advising on technology aspects of integration, separation (carve outs) and optimisation initiatives (e.g. synergy analysis) including the development of target operating models, understanding the current IT landscape, defining transitional service agreements, developing detailed plans, and supporting the implementation of such plans.
- Support the IT workstream in integrations and separations within a larger team of Integration & Separation colleagues

- Identification or review of client synergies for IT within a larger team

Wider team

- When you are not working on a project, you will provide support to senior colleagues in a number of different aspects such as preparation of proposal materials, development of propositions etc.

The Person


- Desirable to have an IT specialism such as: IT strategy, applications, infrastructure, architecture, cyber security

- A good understanding of, or preferably a background in IT/technology, ideally in a M&A environment
- Facilitation of client meetings and interviews
- Programme management experience
- Comfort with ambiguity, fluid consulting situations and a highly pressured environment which characterise transactions
- Willingness to travel