Associate Director

**Join KPMG's Transaction Services team where you'll guide premier clients through complex mergers, acquisitions, and strategic transactions that shape the future of business.** **About the Team** KPMG's Transaction Services team supports premier clients across a range of industries with strategic and financial due diligence to help clients assess, plan, evaluate and manage acquisitions, mergers, divestments and equity offerings and beyond. **The Opportunity - Associate Director, Melbourne** This role is ideal for individuals with diverse experiences from external audit, CFO advisory, accounting advisory, corporate advisory, professional service firms, or accounting/commercial teams within operational businesses. We are open to talent from the above sectors, and those from Transaction Services teams, who are interested in the world of Transaction Services to apply. Talent that makes the move successfully combine technical financial expertise, strategic insight, and leadership capabilities to drive value for clients through complex transactions. **How are you extraordinary?** Our Transaction Services team is growing nationally, and in this role, you will play a crucial part in guiding clients through and executing complex transactions and influencing critical business decisions while guiding a diverse team. You will support our team and clients to identify value creation opportunities, and provide actionable insights on optimising value during transactions as well as: - **Financial Analysis & Due Diligence**: Lead detailed financial analysis and manage the due diligence process, collaborating with buy-side and sell-side advisers. Deliver enhanced diligence ("Diligence+"), providing clients with a holistic assessment of an asset, quantifying potential value opportunities. - **Transaction Execution & Strategy**: Manage the deal lifecycle, from pre-announcement to implementation. Define deal strategy, identify synergies, and support carve-out processes. Understand the transaction rationale and its impact on reporting while planning proactively to meet milestones. - **Client & Stakeholder Communication**: Convey clear, actionable advice, ensuring insights are tailored to clients' industry and strategic objectives, and deliver integrated services that comprehensively address client needs. Offer alternative solutions that support clients' needs while prioritising value creation. - **Team Leadership & Development**: Mentor team members, guiding them through complex tasks and fostering a collaborative environment. Monitor project progress and communicate potential issues identified during analysis or due diligence. - **Marketing & Business Development**: Support business development efforts and develop proposals, pitches, and thought leadership content to enhance the firm's market position and generate new business. Our team collaborates closely with colleagues across Deal Advisory & Infrastructure as well as other Advisory teams, Tax and Audit; it is a multi-disciplinary and international environment that sits right at the heart of our one KPMG ethos. Our team delivers at various stages of the transaction lifecycle including: - Pre-deal evaluations and initial assessment of potential targets - Financial due diligence to uncover key issues of potential targets - Vendor assistance and vendor due diligence offerings for sell-side clients - Capital market and regulatory reporting - Pre-deal carve-outs of businesses for spin-off or sale - Assisting clients in understanding the true strategic and operational capability of acquisitions and divestments via our integrated risk and value creation diligence **Your Experience** At KPMG, we believe diversity of thought, background and experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our clients, and communities. Our team is searching for professionals with a range of qualifications, skills & experiences, including: - Professional experience in Transaction Services, Audit, or CFO Advisory with expertise in financial analysis, opportunity and risk assessment, and client relationship management - You embrace how diligence findings impact the deal rationale and valuation considerations - Strong analytical skills and a commercial flair to generate insights from interpreting data & financial models as well as data analytics - An ability to lead projects, manage client relationships, coordinate teams, and deliver results under tight deadlines - Use advanced analysis tools like Strategic Profitability Insights (SPI) - A continuous improvement approach to internal processes and methodologies, driving innovation in service delivery and helping clients solve challenges more effectively **Benefits** - Flexitime - Employee discount - Health & wellbeing programme **Additional Information** KPMG is a professional services firm with global outreach and deep sector experience. We work with clients across an array of industries to solve comple