Associate Director

**Job Description **Associate Director - Commercial Advisory & Transactions **Infrastructure, Assets & Places - Melbourne - **Do you want to help deliver some of Australia's most significant infrastructure, transport, energy, defence, and social infrastructure projects?**: - **Are you an industry leader or an emerging leader with the ability to build opportunity for your team and clients in an inclusive, diverse, and supportive team culture?**: - **Do you want to help shape how the biggest organisations on the planet and in Australia tackle the big issues of tomorrow and deal with the immense changes our economy and society are undergoing? **About You **You are a professional who shares our purpose of building a better Australia through providing clients with the latest thinking in strategic, commercial, financial, and transaction management advice. You are interested in working in diverse teams with some of Australia's most talented and recognised industry leaders in Infrastructure, Engineering, Projects, and Commercial Advisory. You are looking to grow your career in: - Supporting large scale transport, social infrastructure, real estate, defence, energy, mining, or resources sectors projects. - In a client facing role, solving client problems, developing and writing proposals and, managing a delivery team, - Providing strategic, commercial, and financial advice for clients. - Developing business cases and feasibility studies to support investment decisions. - Designing and leading complex transaction processes. - Contract and commercial negotiations. - Financial analysis and modelling. **Your opportunity to be extraordinary **Our Melbourne team is growing, and we are looking for a number of mid career people (Associate Director), that bring with them some of the following: - A passion for delivering strategic, financial and/ or commercial advice in respect to major infrastructure projects, complex service procurement, strategy and/or transaction advisory. - Professional experience likely gained in a Chartered Accounting firms, law firms, management consultancy, engineering consultancy, corporate advisory, investment banking, project finance teams, infrastructure funds, construction firms or within commercial teams in Government. - Ability to juggle competing demands and work as a team player in an energetic and results-based team. - An interest in the use of information, data, and technology to improve the way in which infrastructure projects are planned, procured, delivered, and managed. - A passion for team collaboration, idea generation and shared learnings. If you share our purpose of building a better Australia through the planning, procurement, delivery and optimisation of infrastructure, assets, and places we encourage you to apply. **You and KPMG **Australia is witnessing a once-in-a-generation investment in infrastructure by all levels of government across Australia, backed by strong private sector participation. Infrastructure problems are becoming more complex, calling for more sophisticated and better-integrated solutions... this is why our "Infrastructure, Assets and Places" group was created. And these challenges require new ways of thinking, enabling us to provide innovative solutions and creative ideas to deliver the best outcomes, that's why inclusion and diversity is so important to us. **Infrastructure, Assets and Places **(IAP) combines KPMG's strategic, commercial, financial, and technical infrastructure advisory capabilities. We are a national team and work with clients to meet their challenges at any stage of the infrastructure lifecycle. Whether planning, procuring, delivering, operating, or transitioning - we help to deliver projects that are environmentally sustainable, socially impactful and drive lasting economic growth. Within IAP, our **Commercial Advisory & Transactions **(CA&T) team provides commercial, financial, and strategic advice to clients for major infrastructure projects. Our team understands the challenges in delivering projects across the project lifecycle and we thrive on this complexity. **Why now and why us? **As a priority growth area for KPMG Australia, IAP is investing in both people and technology to enhance our capabilities - and to help our people flourish. We have a range of exciting, nationally significant engagements and opportunities including: - Many of Australia's largest and most complex transport projects. - Socially impactful projects and reform initiatives in health, social & affordable housing, education and justice. - Critical work with Australia's Defence and associated National Security portfolios. - Renewable/clean energy projects and energy transition initiatives. - Significant property transactions and precinct development activities. At KPMG we are invested in a culture of learning. We encourage ongoing learning with support for formal qualifications, courses, and conferences. We also believe it's important to provide fl