Deal Advisory Careers

KPMG Careers; Manchester, Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Deal Advisory is seeking talented individuals to join their dynamic team. The role encompasses providing expert insights and data-driven solutions in mergers and acquisitions. Ideal candidates will possess strong analytical skills, a degree in finance or business, and the ability to work collaboratively across various sectors. This opportunity promises rewarding career growth and exposure to high-profile projects.

Benefits

Access to a comprehensive learning and development program

Opportunities for career progression and professional development

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Degree in Finance, Business, or related field is preferred.
• Strong analytical and communication skills required.
• Experience in M&A, financial advisory or related roles is valued.

Responsibilities

• Support clients in the deal life-cycle from strategic planning to execution.
• Advise on mergers and acquisitions, including integration and separation strategies.
• Collaborate with teams across different sectors and sectors for optimal outcomes.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Degree in Finance, Business, or related field

Job description

Our Deal Advisory teams partner with our clients to give them the confidence they need to make key decisions for their businesses. The expertise you bring will help deliver high-quality work that builds trust and adds sustainable value for clients, making a meaningful difference to the businesses and communities we serve.

In a world of increasing complexity, you’ll help businesses create opportunity, offering expert insights and data-driven solutions that help accelerate to better outcomes. You'll have access to advanced technologies, which deliver deeper deal insights to our clients through data enhancement, pricing and modelling, benchmarking and reporting.

It’s an exciting time to join us, as we progress ambitious growth plans across our teams. You can expect to collaborate with wider KPMG specialisms and work across different industries, including fashion brands, technology firms, sports stadiums, hotel groups, major energy companies, national transport companies and healthcare. You could make your mark and join our teams in Corporate Finance (Mergers, Acquisitions and Debt Advisory), Transaction Advisory Services, Climate, Risk & Strategy, Infrastructure Advisory Group or The Strategy Group. Whether it’s advising on a merger, working on the full lifecycle of infrastructure projects, helping companies with their net zero objectives, or making client operations more sustainable, you’ll find the work is varied and high profile.

Whilst we operate within a robust framework, we'll ensure you have the autonomy you need to shape the strategies behind our clients' choices, help influence their successes and inspire rapid environmental, social and governance (ESG) related change.

Our fast-paced environment will excite, challenge and reward you. While there will be intense work periods, you’ll have the support that comes from being part of our diverse and collaborative team, to help you thrive. We’ll empower you to feed your curiosity, work with some of the best on emerging practices and technologies and grow in your own way – gaining an advantage for life.

We're looking for people with an entrepreneurial spirit and the motivation to create success with others. You'll bring your unique experiences and perspectives to the team that will help us deliver stronger insights, and build meaningful relationships with internal teams and external stakeholders alike.

We’re creating a tech-driven business to empower and equip our people to be outstanding in delivery, no matter where they work – through inspiring collaboration spaces and new technologies. In your role, you’ll work flexibly across your location region – at engagement sites, our offices and home. Our ways of working will support you to make choices about where, when and how you work – helping you to balance life outside of work too.

This is your chance to come as you are and be part of our inclusive KPMG community, where #DiversityInDeals is celebrated. As one of our trusted advisors, you’ll be recognised for the impact you make and uncover infinite opportunities to achieve your career ambitions. You’ll have immediate access to our Deal Advisory Business School which provides you with a wide variety of learning experiences to help you drive your personal development.

Our Infrastructure Advisory Group is widely recognised as being one of the world’s leading independent financial, commercial and strategic advisors in infrastructure.

By combining valuable insight with hands-on local experience, we help our clients to address challenges at every stage of an asset’s life-cycle, from strategy and planning, to construction, operations and hand-back. We’re shaping the success of some of the UK’s largest infrastructure projects across power and utilities, transport, and social infrastructure and have won numerous awards for Financial Advisor of the Year at major industry events.

In the UK, our multidisciplinary team is organised as a single national team, with more than 180 professionals working in; London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds, Bristol and Manchester. They include; quantity surveyors, engineers, financiers, economists and specialist project managers. Join us, and you could find yourself supporting public sector organisations on running a fair, transparent procurement process, for example, or keeping a project on track with timescales and budgets. It’s diverse, complex and very rewarding work as well as being key to improving the fabric and functioning of society.

We help our clients to create real, lasting value by providing expertise across a number of business critical issues - mergers, acquisitions, divestments, and joint ventures. A key focus for us is to eliminate unexpected surprises for our clients as well as identifying opportunities to minimise risks and maximise value. We work across the deal life-cycle and bring deep functional and sector expertise to our clients, and where relevant we connect the wider KPMG capabilities into the deals we work on. You’ll be part of a dynamic, growing team, working directly with our clients and our global teams to answer key questions at each stage of the deal process. With exposure to both the buy and sell side, you’ll have the opportunity to gain a broad experience as a deal advisor.

In Integration & Separation Advisory, you’ll support clients in designing, planning and delivering value throughout the deal life-cycle, looking at synergies and integration or separation across the business. Within the team we also have teams of functional specialisms of Technology, HR, Finance, and Operations in M&A. In these teams you’ll support clients to:

• Identify, understand and quantify the challenges and opportunities in relation to how technology supports business operations across key areas such as ERP, Cloud, data and cyber security in pre-sign due diligence and how to manage the post-sign integration or separation of technology to manage risk and safeguard and accelerate the realisation of deal value
• add value by advising and supporting clients to execute against the hard and soft human aspects of deals such as organisation design, talent retention, labour relations, payroll cutover, workforce transition, employee engagement and cultural assimilation, and
• assist with the specific issues faced by the CFO and their finance function before, during and after a deal
• identify the operational upsides or risks in a business and helping clients develop new ideas to improve their operations

Deal Strategy and Value Creation is a rapidly growing team within Integration & Separation Advisory. The team works with clients using hypothesis-led thinking, leveraging deep sector and functional expertise from across KPMG globally, supported by advanced analytics to create deeper insights for clients. The team demonstrates clear value impact at the earliest stage of a deal, via the application of commercial and operational performance improvement levers. Our vision is to be recognised as a leading provider of forward looking, distinctive advice to both Corporate and PE clients, helping them to identify, create and protect value across the deal life-cycle at deal speed.

KPMG is a leading mid-market M&A advisor in the UK, Europe and globally. The continued growth of the team means we’re looking for more talented people to come and join us. Our reputation and scale means we can offer you a challenging and rewarding career with plenty of scope to add value as you achieve your career goals. You can look forward to working on a broad range of domestic and international transactions for corporate, private equity and owner-managed clients.

We’re looking for people with the skills and vision to add value to our clients by providing a full range of lead financial advisory services across all industries and sectors including; acquisitions, disposals, mergers and IPOs.

Our advice takes many forms, from analysing strategic options and assessing value to structuring the deal, designing mechanisms for presenting the deal to the marketplace, managing the transaction process, and negotiating and securing optimal terms.

Our Transactions Services group is focused on continually enhancing value for clients across the deal and economic cycle. Our teams comprise of specialists capable of helping clients right through from conceptual thinking of buying a business to acquiring scale or capability to exiting an investment.

We collaborate across everything we do. Our team works closely with colleagues across Deal Advisory as well as Tax, Regulatory and other advisory teams. We often also work alongside KPMG teams across our global network to deliver our clients with seamless insight across multiple geographies.

As a leading force in the industry, we can offer you a challenging and rewarding career. Join one of our teams and you'll be in a position to advise clients on a variety of complex and crucial decisions often in the public eye.

As part of the Valuations team, you’ll build on your strong technical skills and practical deal experience to provide objective, independent valuation advice to key clients.

We work with diverse organisations, from quoted companies and multinational corporations through to privately-owned and developing businesses. For all of them, we provide valuations for corporate governance or regulatory reasons, or because the management team wants to better understand the core value in order to make optimal commercial decisions.

We step in at what can often be a critical juncture for our clients, working with them to help them understand the gap between intrinsic and market value. You’ll spend time working to understand each organisation’s business dynamics, industry and key value drivers. We’ll need you to apply case-relevant valuation methodologies, drawing on your experience, industry knowledge and benchmarking analysis. This is an opportunity to carry out work that helps our clients move forward with confidence.

Careers in Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)

We’ve brought together all of KPMG UK’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) commitments and published Our Impact Plan – aimed at creating sustainable, meaningful change both now and in the future. From Climate Risk and Decarbonisation, Reporting and Assurance to Sustainable Supply Chain and Organisational Transformation, we need Experienced Professionals to help us to reshape the way we manage our environmental footprint and drive change in our organisation and beyond.