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About the Role
KPMG Advisory assists organizations in tackling complex business challenges by integrating sector knowledge with specialized expertise. The Strategy Transactions / Deal Execution practice guides clients through the entire deal lifecycle, from assessment and integration to separation and value delivery. The People in M&A team specifically addresses the workforce and organizational elements crucial for deal success. As a Manager, you will spearhead smaller engagements and significant workstreams on larger transactions, focusing on employee experience, people strategy, organization design, labor relations, compliance, and HR operations to manage risk, support employee transitions, and enhance deal value.
Responsibilities
- Lead small to medium-sized People in M&A engagements and major workstreams on larger transactions, delivering agreed outcomes to scope, quality, budget, and timetable.
- Lead or support people due diligence, assessing workforce costs, organization structures, employee relations, human resources systems, and employment contracts to identify risks and opportunities.
- Translate complex workforce data and stakeholder insights into clear reports, practical recommendations, and commercially relevant decisions for senior clients.
- Advise on people strategy, organization design, and human resources delivery for integrations, separations, and optimization programs, including target operating models, synergy assessments, transitional service requirements, and implementation plans.
- Coordinate human resources and organization design workstreams across wider transaction programs, managing dependencies and escalating delivery, commercial, or risk issues appropriately.
- Build trusted client relationships by leading workshops, interviews, and meetings, maintaining clear communication, and progressing agreed actions.
- Manage engagement quality and commercial performance, including independence and risk requirements, budgets, profitability, invoicing, and work in progress.
- Contribute to team and practice growth by coaching junior colleagues, reviewing work, supporting proposals and market activities, and identifying responsible uses of technology and artificial intelligence to improve delivery quality and efficiency.
Requirements
- Demonstrable experience applying human resources, organization design, or strategic people knowledge to complex business change, ideally within mergers and acquisitions or transactions.
- Experience leading small to medium-sized teams, engagements, or substantial workstreams, with clear evidence of managing scope, quality, budgets, and deadlines.
- Strong analytical experience, with the ability to interpret complex workforce information and produce clear, practical, and commercially relevant recommendations.
- Credible client-facing experience, including leading workshops or interviews and influencing senior stakeholders through clear advice.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, demonstrated through the production and review of high-quality, client-ready reports and presentations.
- Experience contributing to business development through proposals, pitches, propositions, thought leadership, or other market-facing materials.
Skills
- Human resources
- Organization design
- Strategic people knowledge
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Transactions
- Team leadership
- Engagement management
- Workstream management
- Budget management
- Deadline management
- Analytical skills
- Workforce data interpretation
- Client-facing communication
- Workshop facilitation
- Interviewing
- Stakeholder influence
- Written communication
- Verbal communication
- Report writing
- Presentation skills
- Business development
- Proposal writing
- Technology utilization
- Artificial intelligence
Experience Level
- Manager
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
About the Company
- KPMG Advisory helps organisations address complex business challenges by combining sector knowledge with specialist expertise.
- Within Advisory, the Strategy Transactions / Deal Execution practice supports clients across the deal lifecycle, from assessing a transaction or carve-out through to integration, separation and value delivery.
- The People in M&A team focuses on the workforce and organisational factors that determine whether a deal succeeds in practice.