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05.05.2025
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Job Description:
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 of over 105 practitioners, working collaboratively with and orchestrating KPMG’s broad set of capabilities within our Advisory business, and are focused on continually enhancing value for clients across the deal and economic cycle. Our teams comprise specialists capable of helping clients from conceptual thinking of buying a business to turning their business around in times of difficulty.
The People in M&A Centre of Excellence deals with all aspects of the employee journey in M&A, as well as leveraging our experience to enact transformational change outside of a deal context. From early-stage strategy development and organisational design for carve-outs, to synergy cases and cost benefits, employee experience and corporate culture, employee transfer, through to the conception, development, and management of effective transformational solutions to help an organisation achieve its ambitions and objectives. 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. Above all, we are driven by a passion to help our clients execute transactions and transformational change efficiently, maximising value through people and ensuring a smooth people transition.
The Manager role is a key role in the team, being the bedrock of project lead and delivery whilst working alongside the leadership of global organisations. We work across various sectors although there is the opportunity to specialise in a specific area. Our four key client proposition areas are:
• Employee experience: Executing an engagement program that addresses the impact to the employee, ensuring that if presented a choice, the employees would have joined the company independently of the deal.
• Organisational strategy development: Developing the organisation design, people strategy, operating model, synergies, and value enhancements for a carve-out or standalone operation.
• Labour relations and compliance: Ensuring the labour and HR risks and obligations are fully understood and effectively managed globally to deliver on the deal timelines and planned integration changes.
• HR operations: HR operations focus on how HR will deliver services to the organisation through the deal, and post-close, in the most cost-effective and efficient manner, which provides the highest level of service to the employee.
Role Overview
In this role, you will work on and lead projects by working closely alongside senior members of the team, who will provide guidance and insight into the deal environment, enabling you to build your deal knowledge and further develop your people, OD, strategy, and HR skills. You will also leverage your change and consulting skillset to deliver top-tier transformational change for clients outside of a deal context.
Your responsibilities will include:
1. Leading small-to-medium-sized engagements and being the day-to-day support for clients
2. Due Diligence: Contributing to and reviewing deal and transaction reports from a people perspective, analysing data to comment on the people elements of the business including cost, people, and legal issues such as TUPE or unions, systems, and HR contracts. Providing insights on people aspects of the deal relevant to the client and readers of the due diligence reports, explaining issues simply, and highlighting the impact of people on business strategy, operations, and deal valuation. Developing an understanding of people benchmarks and qualitative information to provide insights to clients, and contributing content for reports/deliverables.
3. Integration & Separation: Advising on people, strategy, and organisational design aspects of integration, separation, and optimisation initiatives (e.g., synergy analysis), including developing target operating models, understanding the people landscape, defining transitional service agreements, developing plans, and supporting implementation. Leading the HR/OD workstream on integrations and separations, working with client workstream leads, facilitating client workshops, and reviewing organisational design and synergies.
4. Transformational Change: Supporting clients in achieving objectives through transformational change projects, creating roadmaps, designing change management and communication plans, scoping success factors, mitigating risks, and designing success metrics.
5. Wider Responsibilities: Interacting with senior stakeholders, coaching junior team members, ensuring engagement management protocols, and supporting propositions, tools, methodologies, and templates development.
Leadership & Management:
The Manager supports mentoring, coaching, and development of junior members. They challenge curiosity and innovation, ensure quality and value in outcomes, and contribute to pitches, proposals, and market initiatives.
Stakeholder Interaction & Challenges:
Demonstrate credibility, act as Engagement Manager for projects, manage stakeholders, deliver high-quality client outputs, and identify opportunities to employ technology to enhance delivery.
The Person
Work Experience:
* Understanding of HR, OD, or Strategy, preferably in M&A.
* Experience in M&A projects and consultation.
* Specialisms such as: People strategy, TUPE, HR functions, processes, technology, union engagement, organisational design, employee engagement, talent analysis, recruitment, and retention.
* Leading and facilitating client meetings and workshops.
* Team leadership experience.
* Understanding of HR value drivers.
* Experience in developing business pitches.
* Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders.
Professional, Technical & Soft Skills:
* Bachelor's degree; professional qualifications preferred.
* Excellent communication skills, report writing.
* Ability to work under pressure, learn quickly, and adapt.
* Strong problem-solving, analytical, and creative thinking skills.
* Credibility in discussing industry issues and strategic considerations.
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