Manager - Strategy

**Job no**: 516663

**Work type**: Permanent Full Time

**Location**: Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney

**Division**: Deals Tax & Legal
- Join a growing Strategy team to help clients solve their most complex problems and make clear strategic choices that set them up to execute with confidence and deliver results
- Architect connected strategies that are grounded in rigorous analysis, actionable insight, stakeholder perspectives and industry experience by leveraging KPMG’s deep and multi-disciplinary expertise (e.g. customer research, data and analytics, digital design, artificial intelligence, supply chain, innovation)
- Continue building your career through extensive professional development and career-building opportunities, with the support of senior leadership and embracing our ‘learning mindset’ culture
- Thrive within a flexible and agile work environment that supports a healthy life-work balance

**About us**

KPMG is one of the most trusted and respected global professional services firms. Through depth of expertise, clarity of insight and strength of purpose we help our clients solve complex challenges, steer change, strengthen, transition and grow.

KPMG Strategy, a global network of strategy professionals, helps organisations and executive teams change, grow, adapt, shape and respond to disruptive forces. We support organisations in defining their ambition and developing innovative strategies that embed the agility, customer-centricity and operational excellence needed to thrive in dynamic markets. We work shoulder-to-shoulder with clients through implementation and help them deliver targeted results by accelerating momentum, locking down value and de-risking both decisions and actions.

Our services include:

- Enterprise Wide Strategy - Helping organisations shape their futures by aligning organisation-wide business strategies and operational models
- Growth Strategy - Helping organisations to design and implement growth strategies
- Operating Strategy & Cost - Helping clients to identify, quantify, prioritise and deliver the changes required to align their operating model to their financial targets and strategic objectives, delivering rapid improvement in performance and value
- Digital Strategy - Helping clients enhance the experience of their customers, operational productivity and collaboration by leveraging the latest digital technologies
- Deal Strategy - Advising companies on strategic investment & divestment

In all of our work, we focus on five common elements:

- A robust, informed fact base on company operations and the market environment
- Rigorous quantitative assessment and decision support
- An independent perspective and challenge to management decision making
- A focus on execution in planning for delivery to realise value
- Pragmatic and innovative solutions

We are currently seeking experienced Senior Associates (Manager), who share our purpose of inspiring confidence and empowering change for our clients, our people and our communities, and to share in our vision of “developing and empowering our people to provide innovative solutions in the delivery of projects and services that make a real difference to Australia’s future prosperity”.

**Your new role**

Your team
- Join a pivotal team, with a strong and supported growth agenda
- Work with smart, dedicated and grounded people, who want to make an impact and have fun
- Join a diverse and collaborative team, who enjoy spending time together in and out of the office
- Be part of an ambitious organisation which invests heavily in innovation and growth
- Work seamlessly and efficiently across borders with colleagues from around the globe

Your work
- Do work that matters to our clients and to you, working across sectors and strategy disciplines that you are passionate about
- Work directly with clients, often on-site, and take day to day responsibility for smaller projects and manage elements of larger engagements
- Analyse complex data to derive insights and recommendations
- Build strong and trusted relationships with client counterparts
- Handle ambiguity and changing client demands effectively
- Demonstrate high levels of drive, ambition and the ability to work at high levels of intensity
- Make a real impact by connecting different elements of KPMG’s multi-disciplinary service offerings to deliver and implement innovative and practical solutions and ensure we bring the best of our local and global expertise and experience to all engagements
- Part of a high growth team with a close-knit, high performing culture
- Contribute to the design and implementation of practice development initiatives, coordinating with other members of the team

**You bring to the role**
- 4-6 years experience working for a recognised consulting firm, or central strategy/corporate development team
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative problem-solving skills
- Strong numerical capabilities combined with sound commercial acumen
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