Associate Director - Asset Management Advisory (Oil and Gas)

Job description

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax & Legal, 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. KPMG's Infrastructure Group in the UK consists of c200 professionals and is widely recognised as one of the world's leading independent financial and business advisers in infrastructure.

The Team

Our Asset Management Advisory (AMA) team brings together individuals with deep sector expertise and experience implementing asset management and infrastructure solutions to solve challenges across a range of sectors. We work with major public and private sector entities, principally those with major capital and infrastructure commitments in Transport (highways and rail), Defence, Power & Utilities, Telecoms and Energy Transition. This is a fast-growing area offering exciting opportunities building upon a global capability in Asset Management.

We are seeking an industry-leading Asset Management professional to become part of our team in KPMG UK supporting all AMA activity across the business including Operating Model Transformation, Strategy and Planning, Resilience, Estates Management, Assurance and internal audit, with a specific focus on supporting our oil and gas clients navigate the energy transition.

Services provided by the AMA Team include:

• Asset organisation and operating model transformation
• Analytics and asset management improvement programmes
• Asset investment strategy development and planning
• Infrastructure resilience and adaptation including value-based frameworks
• Assurance and internal audit of infrastructure activities, data and reports

The Role

As an Associate Director in our AMA team, you will be responsible, amongst other things for:

• Delivering large, complex client engagements, operating at board level and the level below
• Management of KPMG teams whilst on client engagements, the AMA team and across the business
• Focusing the deployment of asset management capability on client engagement and within KPMG
• Managing the use and development of Asset Management tools and methodologies across the team and within client engagements
• Engaging with global teams, including the Global Asset Management community to leverage resources and capabilities, developing robust approaches to the supporting service lines
• Managing the day-to-day relationship with key client contacts, ensuring our service is responsive to their needs
• Managing client engagement teams and delivery of work to clients, ensuring the production of high-quality deliverables
• Financial management, ensuring timely raising of fee notes and assisting in the recovery of fees, and keeping clients informed of costs and time incurred on an appropriately regular basis
• Ensuring KPMG's compliance, quality and risk management procedures are completed to the appropriate standard
• Proactively keeping up to date with Asset Management thinking on a global level.
• Supporting the development of the KPMG AMA brand with thought leadership and speaking engagements

Business development:

• Identifying opportunities with existing client engagements to add further value and meet a client need, resulting in extensions to assignments or providing further expertise to an existing team
• Building relationships and identifying opportunities where KPMG can help clients to convert opportunities into new assignments
• Assisting on client proposals and other business development initiatives including leading the development of AMA market propositions
• Coaching and mentoring other staff to develop their business development skills
• Being a role model for junior staff and the firm's values

The Person

We are looking for a person who can work at pace and bring experience and practical solutions across the broad services we provide and sectors we operate in.

You will need to be able to work across different client types and have proven experience in delivering complex engagements, with a high level of client relationship management and a track record of delivering high-quality outputs that lead to securing further work. The level of technical expertise will vary but will likely come from a background in asset management, infrastructure projects and/or business management from within asset-intensive organisations.

Essential Requirements:

• Experience focused on realising the strategic value of asset management at an enterprise level, not just engineering/operational level application
• Experience engaging with Board-level representatives on strategic asset management topics
• Understanding infrastructure organisation operating models and ability to assess the end-to-end process for asset management and infrastructure delivery (including operations and maintenance) for asset-intensive organisations
• Experience with asset life-cycle decision-making and the ability to manage and direct the creation of asset management plans, capital programmes or maintenance regimes
• Assessing and managing risks at both a service/network level and an asset level
• Strong analytical skills and/or strong written, communication and presentation skills
• Good understanding of asset management information and knowledge management
• Experience in one or more key sectors of Oil & Gas, Energy Transition, Natural Resources or Utilities
• Track record of managing client relationships
• Ability to develop strong working relationships at all levels
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams
• Commercial awareness
• Relevant advisory / consulting / assurance experience

Non-Essential:

• Asset performance management
• Asset care and maintenance management
• Sustainable asset management
• Techniques for whole-life costing and accounting
• Managing change in asset management IT systems and capabilities
• Asset management information systems - Contractor and supplier management
• It would be advantageous if the individual has practical experience of providing advisory services and if the individual had worked across a number of sectors.

A final word from us...

Everybody likes to say they're different... but we really think we are.

We're hugely proud of what we've managed to achieve so far, but we're only just getting started. We're looking for people to grow with us and are committed to helping everybody reach their destination, regardless of what that is.

Should you choose to join us, you can expect an attractive benefits package, which typically includes:

Financial

• A competitive salary
• Pension options
• Bonus scheme that reflects firm and individual performance
• Rail and Oyster Card reimbursement
• Staff discounts
• Access to preferential banking

Lifestyle

• 25 days holiday, with the option to buy up to an extra 10 days, plus an additional day of leave for your birthday
• Competitive maternity and paternity leave
• 6 days of work time each year for volunteering
• Daily lunch allowance
• Flextra - a flexible benefits scheme that allows you to choose benefits for you and your family, such as, travel insurance, critical illness insurance, dental insurance and discounted gym memberships

Health and Wellbeing

• Private medical insurance
• Personal accident insurance
• Life assurance of 4 x salary with the option to increase this via flexible benefits scheme
• Access to private, remote GP appointments anytime and anywhere via a smartphone
• Online health risk questionnaire
• BeWell employee assistance programme for confidential information, advice, or counselling for life's daily challenges
• Group Income Protection

No matter what skills you bring to our team, you'll be surrounded by spirited, naturally curious people. People who want to learn from you, and who'll also teach you a thing or two along the way. It's how we make a collective impact, greater than the sum of its parts. And if this isn't the role for you but you like what you see, keep in touch. There will be other opportunities to join us.

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