The Role
We are seeking Associate Directors to perform a critical role leading Estates and Facilities Management (FM) activity across our Defence, Healthcare, and Central Government clients, supporting business development and helping our team to grow and develop.
Key areas you will contribute to the team include:
1. Delivering large, complex client engagements, operating at board level and the level below.
2. Management of KPMG teams whilst on client engagements, the AMA team and across the business
3. Focusing the deployment of asset management capability on client engagement and within KPMG
4. Managing the use and development of Asset Management tools and methodologies across the team and within client engagements
5. Engaging with global teams, including the Global Asset Management community to leverage resources and capabilities, developing robust approaches to the supporting service lines.
6. Managing the day-to-day relationship with key client contacts, ensuring our service is responsive to their needs.
7. Managing client engagement teams and delivery of work to clients, ensuring the production of high-quality deliverables
8. 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.
9. Ensuring KPMG's compliance, quality and risk management procedures are completed to the appropriate standard.
10. Proactively keeping up to date with Asset Management thinking on a global level.
11. Supporting the development of the KPMG AMA brand with thought leadership and speaking engagements
Team Contribution:
12. 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
13. Building relationships and identifying opportunities where KPMG can help clients to convert opportunities into new assignments
14. Leading on client proposals and other business development initiatives including the development of AMA market propositions
15. Coaching and mentoring other staff to develop their business development skills
16. Being a role model for junior staff and the firm's values
The Person
We are seeking professionals who have experience applying their knowledge of asset management to solve business and engineering challenges. The individual much be proactive, able to work at pace and provide practical solutions that deliver value to our clients. The individual must have the ability to deal with ambiguity and to put in place frameworks to structure their thinking and communicate effectively to stakeholders. A track record of delivering high quality outputs is essential.
Essential Requirements:
17. Demonstrate a good understanding of asset management and facilities management challenges with a focus on Defence, Healthcare, and Central Government clients
18. A good understanding of asset management principles and how to apply them to address business challenges.
19. Demonstrate high levels of drive, ambition and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
20. Be good team players who work with colleagues and has experience leading teams in a collaborative and inclusive way.
21. Be comfortable handling ambiguity and responding to changing client demands.
22. Experience engaging with Board-level representatives on strategic asset management topics.
23. Assessing and understanding risks at both a business and an asset portfolio level.
24. Excellent English written and oral communication skills.