Job description
KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax & 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.
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 Infrastructure Group in the UK consists of c200 professionals and is widely recognised as one of the world's leading independent financial and business advisers in infrastructure.
The Team
Our Asset Management Advisory (AMA) team brings together individuals with deep sector expertise and experience implementing asset management and infrastructure solutions to solve challenges across a range of sectors. We work with major public and private sector entities, principally those with major capital and infrastructure commitments in Transport (highways and rail), Defence, Power & Utilities, Telecoms and Energy Transition. This is a fast-growing area offering exciting opportunities building upon a global capability in Asset Management.
We are seeking an industry-leading Asset Management professional to become part of our team in KPMG UK supporting all AMA activity across the business including Operating Model Transformation, Strategy and Planning, Resilience, Estates Management, Assurance and internal audit, with a specific focus on supporting our oil and gas clients navigate the energy transition.
Services provided by the AMA Team include:
1. Asset organisation and operating model transformation
2. Analytics and asset management improvement programmes
3. Asset investment strategy development and planning
4. Infrastructure resilience and adaptation including value-based frameworks
5. Assurance and internal audit of infrastructure activities, data and reports
The Role
As an Associate Director in our AMA team, you will be responsible, amongst other things for:
6. Delivering large, complex client engagements, operating at board level and the level below
7. Management of KPMG teams whilst on client engagements, the AMA team and across the business
8. Focusing the deployment of asset management capability on client engagement and within KPMG
9. Managing the use and development of Asset Management tools and methodologies across the team and within client engagements
10. Engaging with global teams, including the Global Asset Management community to leverage resources and capabilities, developing robust approaches to the supporting service lines
11. Managing the day-to-day relationship with key client contacts, ensuring our service is responsive to their needs
12. Managing client engagement teams and delivery of work to clients, ensuring the production of high-quality deliverables
13. Financial management, ensuring timely raising of fee notes and assisting in the recovery of fees, and keeping clients informed of costs and time incurred on an appropriately regular basis
14. Ensuring KPMG's compliance, quality and risk management procedures are completed to the appropriate standard
15. Proactively keeping up to date with Asset Management thinking on a global level.
16. Supporting the development of the KPMG AMA brand with thought leadership and speaking engagements
Business development:
17. Identifying opportunities with existing client engagements to add further value and meet a client need, resulting in extensions to assignments or providing further expertise to an existing team
18. Building relationships and identifying opportunities where KPMG can help clients to convert opportunities into new assignments
19. Assisting on client proposals and other business development initiatives including leading the development of AMA market propositions
20. Coaching and mentoring other staff to develop their business development skills
21. Being a role model for junior staff and the firm's values
The Person
We are looking for a person who can work at pace and bring experience and practical solutions across the broad services we provide and sectors we operate in.
You will need to be able to work across different client types and have proven experience in delivering complex engagements, with a high level of client relationship management and a track record of delivering high-quality outputs that lead to securing further work. The level of technical expertise will vary but will likely come from a background in asset management, infrastructure projects and/or business management from within asset-intensive organisations.
Essential Requirements:
22. Experience focused on realising the strategic value of asset management at an enterprise level, not just engineering/operational level application
23. Experience engaging with Board-level representatives on strategic asset management topics
24. Understanding infrastructure organisation operating models and ability to assess the end-to-end process for asset management and infrastructure delivery (including operations and maintenance) for asset-intensive organisations
25. Experience with asset life-cycle decision-making and the ability to manage and direct the creation of asset management plans, capital programmes or maintenance regimes
26. Assessing and managing risks at both a service/network level and an asset level
27. Strong analytical skills and/or strong written, communication and presentation skills
28. Good understanding of asset management information and knowledge management
29. Experience in one or more key sectors of Oil & Gas, Energy Transition, Natural Resources or Utilities
30. Track record of managing client relationships
31. Ability to develop strong working relationships at all levels
32. Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams
33. Commercial awareness
34. Relevant advisory / consulting / assurance experience
Non-Essential:
35. Asset performance management
36. Asset care and maintenance management
37. Sustainable asset management
38. Techniques for whole-life costing and accounting
39. Managing change in asset management IT systems and capabilities
40. Asset management information systems - Contractor and supplier management
41. It would be advantageous if the individual has practical experience of providing advisory services and if the individual had worked across a number of sectors.
A final word from us...
Everybody likes to say they're different... but we really think we are.
We're hugely proud of what we've managed to achieve so far, but we're only just getting started. We're looking for people to grow with us and are committed to helping everybody reach their destination, regardless of what that is.
Should you choose to join us, you can expect an attractive benefits package, which typically includes:
Financial
42. A competitive salary
43. Pension options
44. Bonus scheme that reflects firm and individual performance
45. Rail and Oyster Card reimbursement
46. Staff discounts
47. Access to preferential banking
Lifestyle
48. 25 days holiday, with the option to buy up to an extra 10 days, plus an additional day of leave for your birthday
49. Competitive maternity and paternity leave
50. 6 days of work time each year for volunteering
51. Daily lunch allowance
52. Flextra - a flexible benefits scheme that allows you to choose benefits for you and your family, such as, travel insurance, critical illness insurance, dental insurance and discounted gym memberships
Health and Wellbeing
53. Private medical insurance
54. Personal accident insurance
55. Life assurance of 4 x salary with the option to increase this via flexible benefits scheme
56. Access to private, remote GP appointments anytime and anywhere via a smartphone
57. Online health risk questionnaire
58. BeWell employee assistance programme for confidential information, advice, or counselling for life's daily challenges
59. Group Income Protection
No matter what skills you bring to our team, you'll be surrounded by spirited, naturally curious people. People who want to learn from you, and who'll also teach you a thing or two along the way. It's how we make a collective impact, greater than the sum of its parts. And if this isn't the role for you but you like what you see, keep in touch. There will be other opportunities to join us.
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