Associate Director

**Job no**: 520199

**Work type**: Permanent Full Time, Fixed Term Full Time

**Location**: Perth

**Division**: Audit, Assurance & Risk Consulting- **Take advantage of professional development and career-building opportunities with diverse client exposure**:

- **Choose the way you want to work by embracing our flexible work arrangements and refreshed parental leave policy which sets the benchmark for Australia’s largest employers**

A career with **CFO Advisory** will provide you with the opportunity to work with our clients to develop innovative solutions to the complex challenges that CFO’s and their teams face. Our clients choose us for our specialist financial control and reporting experience, advisory knowledge, collaborative approach and ability to add value to them across a range of interconnected issues.

We are looking for people who are passionate and curious - smart individuals who are seeking a challenging and rewarding career. If you are excited about the opportunity to share your knowledge and experience to deliver real commercial insights and innovative solutions to our clients on a variety of engagements across the financial services, corporate, energy and naturals resources and government sectors, then this is the role for you. You will have the opportunity to build and manage consultative relationships with clients and peers, project manage the delivery of engagements and make a positive contribution to business growth initiatives.

**Your role**:
As an Associate Director in CFO Advisory, you will have the opportunity to:

- Manage the delivery of complex projects. This will include end to end project management, developing key client deliverables, presenting results, and liaising with senior members of the CFOA team, other KPMG teams and our clients
- Support finance teams to develop effective financial and regulatory reporting processes. This includes interpretation of the requirements, analysing and sourcing required data, ensuring the data is effectively governed and establishing processes and controls that will enable high quality reporting to be produced
- Assist our clients design and implement sound governance and control frameworks across their end to end financial and regulatory processes that embeds clear accountability and ownership within their organisations
- Provide high-quality technical accounting advice under IFRS across multiple sectors
- Provide high quality technical accounting advice on pre deal accounting assessments/structuring and post deal implementation of accounting arrangements
- Work in cross divisional teams on pre and post deal finance function set-up engagements, supporting our clients to realise value and synergies from their merger and acquisition activities
- Support our strategic initiatives including developing innovative solutions and taking those solutions to market.

**How are you Extraordinary?**

At KPMG, we believe diversity of thought, background and unique experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our clients and communities.

To be considered for this opportunity, your qualifications, skills & experience could include:

- Relevant tertiary qualifications including CA or equivalent, coupled with relevant experience in audit, advisory or assurance in Professional Services or in the corporate, energy and natural resources or government sectors
- Strong understanding of the AASB framework, potentially with experience in implementing accounting standards changes
- Prior experience in a finance function or leading a large complex finance project (including understanding of financial systems and processes) is desirable
- Prior experience in a deals environment with large transactions involving both pre deal accounting assessments/structuring and post deal implementation of accounting arrangements is also desirable
- A passion for delivering innovative client solutions using your excellent communication and problem-solving skills and experience in project management
- A commercial and analytical mindset with well-developed written and verbal communication skills, and strong project management skills
- Experience in leading teams and providing training and guidance to build performance

**What we offer you**:
At KPMG, how you grow matters. We look for talented people with the potential to make an extraordinary difference as we look to build sustainable pathways to growth - shaping a positive future for everyone.

We offer rewarding careers for outstanding professionals, ongoing learning and development opportunities, a collaborative and inclusive culture, and flexible and agile work practices that focus on our people's wellbeing, such as:

- True flexibility to work when, where and how you want, on either a full-time or part time basis, as supported by our three-hub agile working model across the Home Hub, Office Hub, and Client Hub
- Our parental leave policy which is market-leading in Australia, (up