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Capability/ Service Line Information:
Our Transactions Services group is 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 Role

Summary of Role Purpose:
KPMG research has found 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 employee transfer processes and consultation 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.
If you have what it takes to work in a fast paced environment as an extended member of our client teams, we are keen to hear from superstars to join our team, helping to deliver projects, and working alongside senior team members and the leadership of global organisations. This is a fantastic opportunity to learn more about HR M&A and develop and grow within mergers and acquisitions.

Description of the role:

- Providing support on a wide variety of M&A projects from small transactions to global programmes from a people, HR and communications perspective.
- Analysing and data mapping to comment on the people elements of the business including cost, numbers, people and legal issues such as TUPE or unions, systems and HR contracts.
- Helping to advise and deliver 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.
- Helping to facilitate key client workshops and meetings, designing and building materials.
- Helping to identify and/or reviewing client organisational design and people based synergies.
Role dimensions

Stakeholder Interaction & challenges:
Based on client site you will have access to client stakeholders at all levels, where you will engage and interact with support from a manager / senior manager

Impact, Risk, Accountability & Governance:
You will be a key member of the HR M&A team and overall Integration & Separation team, where you will be required to work professionally at all times - with impact and integrity.


Expertise / Technical role requirements:

- Understands the role of HR in a merger or acquisition
- Strong HR background
- Enthusiastic and excited about working in M&A and facing different challenges daily.
- A basic understanding of, or background in HR, Org Design or Strategy.
- Experience of working on M&A projects and understanding of consultation beneficial.
Skills:

- PowerPoint skills
- Team player
- Can work with limited supervision

KPMG Overview:
KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax, Pensions & Legal, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.
As a firm we help our clients navigate their biggest issues and opportunities. We aim to be universally recognised as a great place for great people to do their best work –a firm known for our collaborative and inclusive culture. And we will take pride in driving lasting, positive change in society.
With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.

KPMG's Commitment to Inclusion:
We are proud of the value we place on individuality; we want you to bring your full self to work and truly maximise your potential. We believe that your individuality helps us to deliver the best results for our clients. Diversity of background, diversity of experience, diversity of perspective - that's the KPMG difference. But, don't take our word for it, find out more about diversity at KPMG.
Intelligent Working:
While some of our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, we are supportive where possible of helping you to achieve a balance between your home and work demands.
We are happy to discuss individual requirements and our range of flexible working arrangements could be of interest. Furthermore, as part of the recruitment process, we can put you in touch with people who work flexibly so you can understand from them what our culture is like.
Returning to work after a break
At KPMG, we appreciate that returning to work after an extended career break can be daunting. We understand that those with experience who have taken a career break have a wealth of experience and knowledge to offer our organisation, which helps us to achieve our business goals. We will support you to refresh your skills, develop your confidence and provide a supportive network across the firm to help you best integrate into the working environment. This role welcomes applications for individuals who have been out of work for 18 months or more and who have previous relevant experience.
Applying with a Disability:
KPMG are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity employer and we seek to attract and retain the best people from the widest possible talent pool. As a member of the Business Disability Forum we're committed to ensuring that you are treated fairly throughout our Recruitment Process. Should you be successful after the initial application stage, please discuss any reasonable adjustments that you may require, with your recruitment contact.
Policy for Agencies:
KPMG has a commitment to sourcing candidates directly and as such we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies.

KPMG's Integration Advisory Team works with both acquirers and vendors on pre- and postdeal
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 work
stream, 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 valueadding
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

You will gain exposure to a wide range of integration and separation projects. Your role on a
project will include:
• Providing day to day support to project office activities.
• Supporting workstream leads to fulfil their workstream objectives.
• Ownership and maintenance of financial models on an engagement.
• Contribution of content for sections of reports/deliverables.
• 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

You will likely have a background in Transaction Services, Management Consulting, or
Audit, with demonstrable exposure to project management.
Skills:
• Financial awareness
• Presentation (oral and written).
• Good client relationship skills.
• Analysis and problem solving.
• Report writing.
• Individuals should be comfortable working in the high pressured yet often ambiguous and flexible conditions that characterise transactions.
• You will be looking to broaden your current skill set and will embrace the opportunity to work at client sites with a relatively high level of autonomy
• You will be a collaborative team player. We pride ourselves on the way we work with and support each other.
• You will have strong interpersonal skills and be able to demonstrate personal impact, flexibility, drive and dedication.

The Team

KPMG's Integration & Separation (I&S) Advisory team works with both acquirers and vendors on pre- and post-deal Integration and Separation issues related to M&A or similar transactions.

The Financial Management in M&A team is a specialist capability which supports the growth of the I&S practice. The team is built using a mix of consultants and industry-trained finance professionals, and has the ambition to be the advisor of choice for M&A issues which impact the finance function.
You will be working with highly motivated and high calibre individuals to build the leading team in the industry and 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.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a newly formed team with ambitious growth plans and help build a market leading Financial Management in M&A capability.

Within Integration Advisory the key proposition areas are:
- 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.

The Role

You will gain exposure to the high pressure, fast-paced world of transactions through delivering operational finance integration and separation projects. Your role on a project will include:

- Assisting CFOs and finance stakeholders on the buy-side or sell-side to plan and execute changes in the finance organisation as required by the transaction. This will be across the deal cycle from pre-deal to post-deal phases of the transaction.
- You will work across a variety of industry sectors and locations with clients of varying size and complexity. We also work with other advisory firms (banks, law firms, technology companies, and other accounting firms) on deals, as required, which depends on the nature and scope of the engagement.
- 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 the finance workstreams on integration / separation projects, supporting client workstream leads to fulfil their workstream objectives.
- Ownership and maintenance of engagement financials and on larger projects 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

Candidates must be team players. We pride ourselves on the way we work with and support each other.
Candidates will have strong interpersonal skills and be able to demonstrable personal impact, flexibility, drive and commitment.

Candidates will be looking to broaden their current skill set and will embrace the opportunity to work at client sites with a relatively high level of autonomy.

Candidates will be expected to have as a minimum the following skills and experience:
- Background in Management Consulting or an operational finance role in industry.
- Professional qualification preferred (ACA, CIMA, MBA or equivalent).
- Operational finance experience could include activities such as planning, budgeting and forecasting, finance business partnering, management reporting, ERP systems implementation, cash management or design and operation of core end-to-end processes (Record to Report, Procure to Pay, Order to Cash etc.).
- A good understanding of the component parts of a finance function and the typical organisational structure, processes, controls, systems and performance metrics/ benchmarks.
- A good knowledge and understanding of core finance processes.
- Awareness of current leading practice and future trends in creating efficient and effective finance functions, including supporting business strategy, operating model design and implementation, disruptive technologies and creating insight from data.
- Exposure to the operational finance issues created by finance integrations, separations and carve outs.
- Experience of leading finance change projects and business improvement in industry or a consulting environment.
- Experience of organisational change in finance/ back office functions.
- A keen interest in merger and acquisitions.
- Financial and commercial awareness.
- Presentation (oral and written).
- Good client relationship skills.
- Analysis and problem solving.
- Report writing.
- Individuals should be comfortable working in the high pressured yet often ambiguous and flexible conditions that characterise transactions.

The Team

KPMG's 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
- Formulatning, production and oversight 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 a 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.
- Individuals should be comfortable working in the high pressured yet often ambiguous and flexible conditions that characterise transactions.
- 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.