Assistant Manager - Commercial Advisory and Assurance - Planning, Scheduling and Project Controls

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Job summary

A leading advisory firm in London seeks an Assistant Manager for its Major Projects Advisory team. The role involves managing planning, scheduling, and project controls for significant infrastructure projects. Ideal candidates will have experience in major projects, strong problem-solving skills, and proficiency in relevant tools. This role offers opportunities for professional growth and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Opportunity to work from home

Professional development programs

Qualifications

• Post-qualification experience in planning, scheduling, and project controls.
• Experience in major projects and programmes, ideally in infrastructure.
• Communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to build and maintain great relationships.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients to address project delivery challenges.
• Monitor project performance and provide solutions.
• Manage relationships with clients and stakeholders.

Skills

Planning and scheduling

Strong problem-solving skills

Communication and presentation skills

Risk management

Relationship building

Proficiency in Excel

MS Project

Oracle P6

Education

Professional certification (e.g., APM PMQ/PPQ; MoP; MSP; PRINCE2)

Tools

MS Project

Oracle P6

Excel

Job description

Overview

Assistant Manager, Commercial Advisory and Assurance – Planning, Scheduling and Project Controls

KPMG’s Major Projects Advisory (MPA) team works with industry-leading organisations, helping to solve some of the biggest challenges in infrastructure. As a true market leader, we work with a client base across the commercial and public sectors, delivering lasting results on projects and programmes which are household names.

Why join KPMG in Major Projects Advisory - Infrastructure Advisory Group?

We focus on providing clarity to Boards, Executives and SROs at major public and private sector organisations, on the delivery of their projects and programmes. We work on some of the UK’s most strategically important programmes, and across all infrastructure sectors including transport, natural resources, energy, power and utilities, corporates, oil & gas, defence, health, housing & education.

Our team comprises specialists with deep construction industry experience, from working for project owners, contractors, engineering consultants and others in the UK and overseas.

On the back of continuing growth, we’re once again investing in our team to drive a step change in our capability. This means you’ll be joining one of the fastest growing areas of the firm at a time of real significance.

What will you be doing?

This role is for an innovative professional at Assistant Manager level, who can work alongside our existing team to use their lived experience of planning, scheduling and project controls in construction to solve complex problems. There is no one-size fits all in MPA; we’re as diverse as the world around us. We hand pick our people because they’re our most important asset, and people pick us because we really mean that.

Assistant Managers in our team are client-facing and right at the forefront of delivery. This role requires previous experience ideally gained from infrastructure-related projects and programmes, but we’ll happily consider candidates with experience in other relevant fields.

As part of a team of consultants on the ground, you’ll be applying your subject matter expertise and experience every day, bringing to life tailored solutions for our clients whilst managing important relationships.

The MPA team in the UK are based in London, Birmingham and Manchester. This role will be based in one of these locations but will require travel to client locations throughout the UK and occasionally overseas.

What will you need to do it?

For this opportunity, we’re looking for candidates with some post-qualification experience primarily built around the planning, scheduling and project controls area of major projects and programmes. This could be as a contractor, consultant, or within a government role.

Your track record should evidence:

• A good, applied understanding of planning including managing tasks in relation to the development, update, monitoring and reporting of schedules; risk management; change control; identification of opportunities for improvement and implementation of best practice
• Experience in major projects and programmes, ideally in infrastructure of one of our priority sectors of transport, defence, power and utilities or nuclear
• Investigating schedule and cost performance, defining variance, causes and providing mitigating options
• Developing tools and reports to support project controls processes
• Risk identification and analysis
• Project and programme performance monitoring and assurance
• Strong problem-solving skills
• An ability to build and maintain great relationships and a desire to network across our firm
• Communication and presentation skills
• A desire to learn and develop new skills within planning and project controls
• Proficiency in using Excel, MS Project and Oracle P6

Skills we’d love to see/Amazing Extras:

• Public sector experience
• Delay and scenario analysis
• Dispute advisory or expert witness experience
• Supporting the delivery of advisory services such as organisational design and governance optimisation
• Performance and efficiency improvement
• Enhancing project and programme controls
• Troubled project/programme reviews
• Achieved or working towards a relevant professional certification – e.g. APM PMQ/PPQ; MoP; MSP; PRINCE2

Our Locations

We are open to talk to major projects advisory talent across the country but our core hubs for this role are:

• London Canary Wharf
• Manchester
• Birmingham

With 20 sites across the UK, we can potentially facilitate office work, working from home, flexible hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please register and discuss this with our team.

Find out more

Within Deal Advisory we have a range of divisions and specialisms. Text is provided below for context:

• Deal Advisory at KPMG: kpmg.co.uk/uk/en/home/services/deal-advisory.html
• ESG at KPMG: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/our-esg-journey/
• About our firm: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/people-culture/about-our-firm/
• KPMG Culture. Being Inclusive: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/people-culture/being-inclusive/