Deal Execution

**Function(s)**:Advisory

**Work Type**:Permanent

**Start Date for Applications**:4 Sept 2022

**Closing Date for Applications**:
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Job DescriptionAs part of KPMG’s Deal Advisory group, the Deal Execution team provides clients with advisory services to clients related to mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. We are a collaborative, diverse, high performing team, working with high profile corporate and private equity clients on some of the largest and most complex deals in the region and globally. We work across a variety of sectors, with a particular focus on financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and TMT. The team’s key proposition areas are as follows:

- **Integration**:Planning pre
- and post-deal to support clients to safely deliver and take control of acquisitions, or facilitate JV partnerships, and integrate acquisitions, whilst enhancing value.
- **Separation**:Supporting vendors to strategically deliver credible carve-out concepts, strategies plans, and execution, with value preserved and business continuity ensured.
- **Synergies**:Helping clients understanding the potential benefits and costs of a transaction, or critically evaluating synergy cases.
- **Due diligence**: Highlighting key operational risks, opportunities and, if applicable, execution readiness at a target, order to ensure that acquirers are aware of key issues that may impact valuation or smooth and safe delivery of a transaction.

**Responsibilities**:

- Providing support on client engagements, delivering high levels of client satisfaction throughout engagements; ownership of deliverables and outputs (which can include integration/separation strategies, designs and plans; synergies analysis/reviews; due diligence reports), and driving collaboration within project team(s) to assist clients in executing M&A related projects across multiple functions (including finance, technology, supply chain, HR, etc.), geographies, and within the project management office (PMO).
- Application of the KPMG global deal execution methodologies to the practical aspects of business operations and the client’s market sector throughout the engagement process to support sound and practical recommendations to clients
- Understand and articulate graphically and verbally the sources of value for synergies, and help assess client’s assumptions to support the pre-signing process
- Understanding, articulating and helping clients mitigate against likely issues that could impact project success
- Working collaboratively with wider KPMG service lines and geographies to support clients
- Supporting client pitches, proposals, business development initiatives and internal/external marketing initiatives
- Into practice development activities/initiatives
- Ensuring KPMG engagement quality and risk management procedures are consistently applied on each engagement to protect the interests of our clients, as well as KPMG
⠀**Requirements**:

- An understanding of the market drivers, challenges and opportunities impacting our clients’ strategies and priorities, as well as our key focus sectors
- Prior M&A and/or restructuring/operational improvement experience in advisory/consultancy, or industry/based operational role, with deep industry focus and an understanding of the M&A cycle
- Previous experience of project management roles and responsibilities
- Exposure to client environments and working with stakeholders at various levels
- Relevant degree and/or post-graduate qualification
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving and project and time management skills
- Self-motivated, well-organised with a positive attitude towards challenges
- Comfort in working in the high pressured, yet often ambiguous and flexible, conditions that characterise transactions
- Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
- Willingness to travel

At KPMG in Singapore we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We believe that diversity of thought, background and experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our clients and communities. As an equal opportunity employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, race, gender identity or expression, colour, marital status, religion, sexual orientation, disability, or other non-merit factors. We celebrate the different talents that our people bring and support every staff member in their journey to ac