Director - Special Situations

Job description

KPMG's UK Deal Advisory team is recruiting ambitious, innovative and high performing individuals at all levels to accelerate the growth of its recently launched Special Situations Group

KPMG's Special Situations Group ("SSG") offers an exciting opportunity to work within dynamic, flexible, and fast-moving environments and is the first line of response to opportunities arising from operational underperformance and/or financial pressure.

We have recently invested significantly in this team including several experienced partners/directors and are actively recruiting a staff compliment to help accelerate this important growth initiative. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment in which all colleagues thrive and reach their full potential, whatever their identity or background. This is fundamental to our success as a business.

SSG operates nationally and is deeply embedded within the rapidly growing Deal Advisory business as part of the highly successful Corporate Finance team. Our multi-capability group delivers a broad spectrum of corporate advisory work, serving regional and large corporate clients across the UK. This powerful combination enables us to deliver a bespoke, solutions-led approach to help companies preserve value and navigate back to a path of sustainable growth.

We proactively support businesses through the whole economic cycle. By combining this specialist expertise with the depth and breadth of functional and sector capabilities already at KPMG, we are able help our clients to rise to whatever challenges they might face during times of economic uncertainty, supporting with:

• Internal and external stakeholder stabilisation and management
• Short-term liquidity management
• Business plan assessment, challenge and analysis
• Identification and assessment of options
• Financing strategies
• Business disposals or managed exits
• Cash & working capital management
• Cost reduction and performance improvement
• Economic profitability assessments
• Development of integrated financial and operational turnaround plans
• Implementation support
  

SSG are intentionally building a diverse high-performance team, seeking applicants that bring a range of experience gained across multiple industry sectors and business functions, across all grades (above Graduate).

You may have a professional services/consulting, finance, or an operational background, with a track record of success in (one or more of): turnaround, financial analysis, restructuring, or transactions. Industry sector expertise (consumer, industrials, health care & life sciences, TMT, business services, energy & natural resources) would be beneficial but are not essential. Experience of working in a fast-moving environment and with businesses facing financial or operational challenges is also beneficial.

The key attributes of a Director within SSG will ideally include:

• Strong numerical, analytical and strategic thinking skills
• Significant Turnaround and Restructuring experience with a demonstrable execution record across all phases of the transaction cycle
• Significant business review and challenge expertise with experience in leading multi-workstream advisory projects
• Experience at advising, working alongside and managing a range of stakeholders
• An existing professional network of client relationships across corporates, lenders, private equity and/or other stakeholders
• Ability to lead on origination and developing deal flow, leveraging personal network of client relationships and our firm wide network
• Appetite to play a key role in furthering KPMG's growth plan by supporting other areas of the business with integrated go to market business development strategies
• Proven track record in building, motivating and empowering teams of high calibre people
• Personal drive to deliver results and ambition to make an impact in a growing team
• Excellent communication skills with the authority and credibility to gain respect both internally and externally with people at all levels