Manager - Commercial Advisory and Assurance (Major Projects Advisory)

KPMG United Kingdom; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm in the UK is looking for a Manager in Commercial Advisory and Assurance. This role involves providing insights and recommendations on major infrastructure projects, ensuring quality standards, and managing project teams. Ideal candidates should have strong understanding of cost factors in construction and the issues affecting project performance. This position is based in Birmingham and part of a growing team dedicated to significant projects across various sectors.

Qualifications

• In-depth knowledge of construction project issues impacting performance.
• Experience with reporting and financial management for projects.

Responsibilities

• Provide clear recommendations of solutions to project issues.
• Manage project teams and deliver client engagements.
• Ensure compliance with KPMG standards and manage quality and risk.

Skills

Understanding of cost factors in construction projects

Knowledge of construction project performance issues

Job description

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Job description

Manager, Commercial Advisory and Assurance (Major Projects Advisory) (103675)

Base Location: London, Manchester and Birmingham. Plus network of 20 offices nationally: www.kpmg88careers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations

The KPMG Major Projects Advisory Team sits within Infrastructure Advisory Group and is part of our Deal Advisory function. Deal Advisory partners with clients to give them the confidence they need to make key decisions for their businesses. The team support clients to look across their business, and outside it, at where they can add value - and that could mean strategy, integration, separation, value creation or mergers and acquisitions.

KPMG is one of the world's largest and most respected consultancies. We've supported the UK through times of war and peace, prosperity and recession, political and regulatory upheaval. We've proudly stood beside the institutions and businesses which make the UK what it is.

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

KPMG's Infrastructure Advisory Group (IAG) is widely recognised as one of the world's leading independent strategic advisors in the infrastructure sector. We provide in-depth advice on the strategic, economic, financial and commercial issues driving infrastructure projects spanning the transport, power and utilities, social infrastructure and central government departments and private sector bodies sectors in the UK and internationally. There is no one-size fits all in MPA; we're as diverse as the world around us and our people are our most important asset.

Why Join KPMG as a Commercial Advisory and Assurance Manager?

We focus on providing clarity to Boards, Executives and SRO's 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 natural resources, energy, power and utilities, transport, corporates, oil and gas, defence, health, housing and education.

Our diverse team comprises of 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 and boosting our numbers, which 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?

• Clear recommendation of solutions to project issues based on own knowledge and experience
• Clear, concise, fact-based reporting
• Summarising for and presenting to senior stakeholders
• Engagement Management of project teams to deliver client engagements
• Support in management of quality and risk on engagements to meet KPMG standards.
• Supporting financial management of engagements including budgeting, reporting and invoicing processes

What will you need to do it?

• A good understanding of the factors which drive costs on construction projects
• A thorough understanding of issues which impact construction project performance