Associate Director - People in Deals - Centre of Excellence in London

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. As one of the most successful teams in KPMG, we believe heavily in the development of our people. Associate Directors will work alongside Partners and Directors, providing one to one coaching as well as significant internal and external courses, and performance management, to help develop them and rapidly build their careers.

We advise on all aspects relating to HR and change management on the deals process from HR due diligence through to deal execution. Our focus areas include:

• Employee experience: Shaping the employee experience strategy and executing an engagement program based on our unique digital engagement platform to ensure that the workforce is engaged and key talent is retained in order to protect deal value.
• Organisational Design: Organisation Design, people strategy, operating model, driving synergies and value enhancements for integrations, carve-outs, or Joint Ventures.
• Labour relations and compliance: Ensuring that labour and HR risks and obligations are understood and managed globally to deliver on the deal timelines and planned changes.
• HR operations: Focuses on the integration of the HR function itself, from strategy, operating model, integration or separation of systems and processes including standing up/securing payroll on deals.

Our wider Integration & Separation ('I&S') deals team culture and HR M&A ways of working are highly collaborative, open, and high performing. Associate Directors are not expected to have all skill sets but to lead teams to deliver on these areas.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for leading client delivery and supporting practice development for the Technology in M&A team. Your responsibilities will include:

• Demonstrating credibility and experience to advise and deliver on complex I&S deals.
• Preparing, planning, and delivering HR M&A programmes and HR due diligence.
• Leading and supporting clients through strategy development, organisational design, people transitions, employee experience and synergy/cost analysis programmes arising from acquisitions, divestitures, carve outs and other transactions.
• Delivering and/or reviewing high quality transaction reports and other M&A documentation including HR due diligence and Transitional Service Agreements.
• Providing high quality insights and recommendations to clients.
• Leading client meetings and interviews and acting as primary point of contact for the client across overall engagement.
• Building and expanding client relationships on large corporates.
• Managing relationships with key C level executives at clients.
• Deploying I&S and Deal Advisory technology on projects to reduce cost and improve client delivery.

Wider team

To work collaboratively with the HR M&A partner and directors, as well as the wider I&S and Deal Advisory partners and directors to pursue and land deal opportunities. Supporting and contributing to the growth plans of our HR M&A business.

Overseeing and driving development of staff, including being mentor and coach to junior team members. Driving digital innovation including the development of compelling HR M&A propositions to provide market growth opportunities.

Owning engagement management, including quality and risk management for the project, setting scopes, budgets, staffing resources, creation, and coordination of client-ready deliverables with KPMG engagement teams.

Acts as a role model for I&S values and demonstrates behaviours in line with KPMG values and culture.

Experience required

Significant experience in a consulting firm or industry of preparing and delivering HR, Organisation Design or Strategy programmes in an M&A environment including:

• HR due diligence (buyside and sell side).
• Planning and execution of integrations and separations across strategy and OD, people transition, culture, employee experience, infrastructure, and systems.
• HR Operations, including people, process, governance, service management, technology and contracts.
• Design, negotiation, and operation of HR related transitional services.
• Deep technical expertise in at least one of the following areas: Operating model, organisation design and execution; Talent retention strategy; Cultural assimilation; HR operating models.

Understanding of the deal lifecycle and the role of HR and change management. Leading and facilitating client meetings and interviews. Team management experience, including experience in development and growth plans.

Bachelor's degree qualification, professional qualification welcome. Excellent verbal and written communication skills including reporting. Ability to learn quickly and leverage skills in new situations. Programme management experience and track record of successful delivery of projects.

Comfort with ambiguity, fluid situations and a highly pressured environment. Ability to be flexible, with willingness to travel if required as well as managing virtual teams and client projects in a hybrid working world.

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