Associate Director - Deal Execution

Job description

KPMG’s Deal Execution practice is looking for exceptional candidate for a London based Associate Director role as member of our JVs and Alliances team.  

Our Joint Ventures and Alliances team is part of our broader Deal Execution team which in return is a significant part of a rapidly expanding Strategy Group delivering value for clients by challenging conventional thinking, bringing deep industry and functional insights and executing with investor-grade rigour.  Strategy Group is a diverse team of over 150 practitioners, working collaboratively with and orchestrating KPMG’s broad set of capabilities within our Deal Advisory business, and are focused on continually enhancing value for clients across the deal and economic cycle.

The JV and Alliances team of which you will be part of comprises of specialists from all required disciplines to design, set up, operate or exit partnerships helping clients from ideation to execution of their most innovative and significant partnerships.

You will be part of a small and agile team and will need to be an entrepreneur in spirit helping to grow our JV business which means you will be asked to support sales, engagements delivery and team building at the same time and from Day 1.   

We advise a broad range of clients and typically start our engagements quite early in the process when clients evaluate the feasibility of a partnership idea. You will be part of the core JV team which typically leads or advises on our JV engagements from start to finish.

To be an effective Associate Director in this role applicants will be ideally bringing the following experience:
•    Experience in designing, negotiating and building partnerships deals, ideally in an industry or another consultancy firm. 
•    Corporate Finance skillset allowing effective key agreements negotiation support. 

Experience across a number of JV related issues including but not limited to strategic options assessments, valuation, business planning, legal agreements negotiation and project management of JV deals.

In order to be successful in the role, the candidate will need to demonstrate the following key competencies in the role: 
•    Ability to lead complex JV engagements from start to finish.
•    Ability to lead multidisciplinary teams comprised of Legal, Tax, Valuation, JV Accounting, Deal Execution etc. experts.  
•    Proactively drive business development and helping to secure consulting engagements
•    Undertake scoping and budgeting of the engagements.  
•    Develop JV related thought leadership for external release. 
•    Understand risk and ensure that Firm's risks management frameworks are adhered to at all times. 

Inspire, motivate coach and develop project team members and appraisees, and give constructive 360 degree feedback

Flexibility to work on classic M&A deals (predominantly on integration, separation or synergy engagements) across different regions and across different sectors in times when activity in the JV area is not at the desired level.