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

Overview

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:

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

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate credibility and experience to advise and deliver on complex I&S deals (involving teams from I&S, Deal Advisory and the wider firm).
• Prepare, plan, and deliver HR M&A programmes and HR due diligence.
• Lead and support clients through strategy development, organisational design, people transitions, employee experience and synergy/cost analysis programmes arising from acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs and other transactions.
• Deliver and/or review high-quality transaction reports and other M&A documentation including HR due diligence and Transitional Service Agreements.
• Provide high-quality, deep insights and recommendations to clients.
• Lead client meetings and interviews and act as the primary point of contact across overall engagement.
• Build and expand client relationships on large corporates, becoming the trusted advisor from one deal to the next.
• Interface with senior internal and external stakeholders at clients and within KPMG.
• Manage relationships with key C-level executives at clients.
• Deploy I&S and Deal Advisory technology on projects to reduce cost and improve client delivery where appropriate.
• Collaborate with the HR M&A partner and directors, as well as wider I&S and Deal Advisory partners and directors, to pursue and land deal opportunities.
• Support and contribute to the growth plans of our HR M&A business.
• Oversee and drive staff development, including mentoring and coaching junior team members.
• Drive digital innovation by developing compelling HR M&A propositions to create market growth opportunities.
• Identify new opportunities, shape proposals, and pitch.
• Identify and pull through relevant KPMG services (e.g. Management Consulting People & Change, People Services).
• Own engagement management, including quality and risk management for the project, setting scopes, budgets, staffing resources, creating and coordinating client-ready deliverables, and directly communicating results with clients.
• When not working on projects, support the development of our propositions, business development and delivery of proposals to clients.
• Act as a role model for I&S values and demonstrate behaviours in line with KPMG values and culture.

Significant experience in a consulting firm or industry of preparing and delivering HR, organisational design or strategy programmes in an M&A environment, including:

• HR due diligence (buyside and sell-side) – writing and reviewing.
• Vendor assist.
• 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.
• Advise, challenge and support clients through the deal lifecycle including deal execution.

Deep technical expertise in at least one of the following areas:

• Operating model, organisational design and execution.
• Talent retention strategy, talent pooling and assessment & selection.
• Cultural assimilation, shaping employee-experience strategy and execution.
• Headcount and HR-related synergies (e.g. workforce optimisation, managing RIF programmes and large-scale workforce transitions).
• HR operating models, including organisation, systems and processes – integrating, carving out or setting up from scratch.
• Labour relations, e.g. TUPE, restructuring and redundancy, union negotiation strategies and Collective Labour Agreements.

Understanding of the deal lifecycle and the role of HR and change management. Understanding of the deal lifecycle and the role of HR and strategy within it – from due diligence through to concluding transitional service agreements. Lead and facilitate client meetings and interviews. Lead a team that includes both colleagues and client members of staff. Team management experience, including planning and developing growth plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree qualification; professional qualification welcomed.
• 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.
• Experience of HR outsourcing, supplier management and procurement.
• Comfort with ambiguity, fluid situations and a highly pressured environment.
• Fluency in a European language beneficial.
• Ability to be flexible, willing to travel if required, and manage virtual teams and client projects in a hybrid working world.

Disability Confident

Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme. A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. For more details please go to the scheme website.

Our Culture

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. We strive to drive lasting, positive change in society. KPMG’s Commitment to Inclusion:

• Integrity: We do what is right.
• Excellence: We never stop learning and improving.
• Courage: We think and act boldly.
• Together: We respect each other and draw strength from our differences.
• For Better: We do what matters.

Additional Information

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, you will be able to demonstrate how you can live our KPMG values.