Job Vacancy Senior Manager – Accounting Advisory Services – Transport & Infrastructure KPMG


Job title: Senior Manager – Accounting Advisory Services – Transport & Infrastructure

Company: KPMG

Job description: Senior Manager – Accounting Advisory Services – Transport & Infrastructure

KPMG Overview

KPMG in the UK is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.

The Team

KPMG’s dedicated Transport & Infrastructure Advisory team within our Infrastructure, Government and Healthcare (IGH) Consulting practice provides specialist financial, commercial and strategic advice to the transport sector (both public and private sector participants), focusing on the rail and bus markets in the UK and globally. We are currently experiencing an unprecedented demand for our services, across our transport infrastructure, government, and private sector operator market, where KPMG is the dominant provider of financial and commercial advice. Successful candidates would lead engagements supporting clients to develop financial forecasts and business plans, including working in a management role within KPMG finance teams. Typical engagements will be supporting transport client teams to generate and challenge costs and revenues to underpin their business plans, whether for a specific contract, transaction or as part of a transformation programme, develop strategies for market entry into a new country, or across a whole business unit for a defined planning period. There will also be opportunity to work on other non-transport focussed projects in the team.

Recent projects have included delivering the finance workstream of a major organisational transformation programme, advising operators to bid for or negotiate contracts, advising Network Rail on its financial forecasts in relation to its regulatory settlement, market entry studies for public and private sector transport clients, financial due diligence on transactions across the rail industry value chain, and contract mobilisations.

The Role (key responsibilities)

  • Supporting the Directors in shaping and delivering the Transport & Infrastructure sector strategy.
  • Providing specialised financial and commercial advice and challenge to help clients develop robust and competitive bids and credible financial forecasts.
  • Leading the KPMG team on engagements which could include rail contract bids or other engagements focused on financial planning and commercial advice to transport operators and infrastructure providers.
  • Building and maintaining strong relationships with both clients and KPMG individuals.
  • Leading elements of practice management, including thought leadership, business development activities and general practice development.
  • Candidates are expected to become active members of KPMG’s wider transport network, developing sector knowledge to help grow the wider global transport practice.
  • People management and development, for example by acting as a Performance Manager for more junior staff.
  • Engagement management.

The Individual (key skills and competencies)

  • Qualified accountant (or highly financially literate).
  • Significant experience in a finance role in either professional practice focussing on the transport industry or in a public or private sector transport business.
  • Has a strong market knowledge and a comprehensive understanding of Transport & Infrastructure clients and solutions to support and drive client conversations on key sector/client issues and priority areas.
  • Has a credible profile, and successful track record in building and cultivating strong client relationships, with a particular focus in Transport & Infrastructure
  • Demonstrates strong client management skills, with a successful track record in managing Transport & Infrastructure sector engagements, particularly for larger, strategic, and higher risk projects with significant revenues
  • Identifies new opportunities and innovative solutions and develops these with existing clients where appropriate, as well as contributing to and/or managing the development of Transport-sector proposals and business development activities.
  • Other desirable experience would include working within UK rail supply chain, rolling stock manufacturers, ROSCOs or international transport.
  • Experience of rail franchise bidding highly desirable, but not mandatory for exceptional candidates.
  • Proven ability to motivate people and work in a team.
  • Experience of working as an external advisor in a consultancy capacity desirable, particularly in multi-disciplinary teams including specialists such as modellers and technical advisors.
  • Experience and knowledge of the risk and engagement management processes within regulated professional services firms.
  • Analytical ability and attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
  • Network of existing clients in the rail and/or bus industry.
  • Willingness to learn and to try new things, and to be deployed across a variety of other KPMG projects (including outside the transport sector) as required.
  • BPSS / basic security clearance or ability to gain this.

Expected salary:

Location: Manchester

Job date: Fri, 01 Jul 2022 01:32:19 GMT

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