Manager - Planning & Infrastructure Economics

**Company Description**:
KPMG Australia’s **Infrastructure, Assets and Places** (**IAP**) group brings together market-leading strategic, commercial and technical capabilities to create something that is truly unique for our clients and our people.

We are looking for talented individuals who share our purpose of building a better Australia through the planning, procurement, delivery and optimisation of infrastructure, assets and places.

A core part of the vision for IAP is to attract and retain the best people as a destination employer - offering rewarding careers and investing in the growth of our people.

We are committed to sustaining a positive culture that is:

- Bold and agile
- Diverse and inclusive
- Collaborative and trusting
- Energetic, ambitious and fun.

Within IAP, our **Planning & Infrastructure Economics (PIE) **team provides the latest thinking in the provision of strategic, economic, policy, planning and management advice for infrastructure, places and precincts, and other major projects.

We understand the complex challenges in developing cities and places, and delivering major infrastructure projects. We thrive on this complexity and the discipline, collegiality, and vision that is required to drive successful outcomes.

**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.

How we grow starts with you, and we believe how you grow matters.

We currently 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 urban renewal and precinct development activities.

**Your opportunity**

As a member of our high-performing team, you will:

- Help to develop and provide strategic advice to our clients in the course of planning for infrastructure across various sectors, including in transport, education and skills, health, energy and decarbonisation, water, housing and community infrastructure
- Undertake economic analysis and/or develop policies, strategies, feasibility studies and business cases for infrastructure investment
- Work collaboratively, developing and building relationships across our team and with our clients
- Contribute to sustaining our positive culture, which is integral to the success of our team
- Be supported with comprehensive internal training opportunities, enabling you to shape your growth and development at KPMG.

**Qualifications**:
**How are you extraordinary?**
- Experience and/or interest in providing strategic advice, policy analysis, economic analysis or shaping investment decisions in the delivery of infrastructure and precincts
- A passion for facilitating better community outcomes through enhanced infrastructure, assets and places
- Strong interpersonal, problem solving and written communication skills, combined with high attention to detail
- Ability to juggle competing demands and work as a team player in a dynamic and results-based environment
- Experience in quantitative analysis, cost-benefit analysis, geospatial analysis, data visualisation and/or model development (desirable but not essential)
- Tertiary qualifications in public policy, economics, urban planning, engineering, commerce, business, law or other relevant areas.

**Additional Information**:
**The KPMG Difference**
Our people are focused on creating a diverse and dynamic environment that embraces and values differences. We value the variety of unique experiences, qualities and characteristics that our people possess, and we share and learn from each other.

We are proud to be consistently recognised as an employer of choice for women, and for our achievements in LGBT+ workplace inclusion.

KPMG is a professional services firm with global outreach and deep sector experience. We work with clients across an array of industries to solve complex challenges, steer change and enable growth.

Our people are what make KPMG the thriving workplace that it is and what sets us apart is that we know great minds think differently. Collaborate with a team of passionate, highly skilled professionals who’ve got your back. You’ll build relationships with unique and diverse colleagues who will provide you with the support you need to be your best and produce meaningful and impactful work in an inclusive, equitable culture.

At KPMG, you’ll take control over how you work. We’re embracing a new way of working in many ways, from offering flexible hours and locations to generous paid parental leave and career breaks. Our people enjoy a variety of exciting perks, including retail discounts, health and we