Job details

Location: London

Capability: Deal Advisory

Experience Level: Manager

Type: Full Time

Service Line: IAG

Contract type: Permanent

Job description

The Team

You’ll be joining our team that support the NHS in optimising its cost base through finding productivity and efficiency opportunities at provider level and at a system level. You will sit in the Infrastructure Government and Healthcare (IGH) Deal Advisory team which more broadly provides in-depth advice on the strategic, financial, regulatory, and commercial issues driving investments in infrastructure across Healthcare, Education, Local Government and Social Housing as well as Transport and Power & Utilities. This ranges from providing strategic advice to financing investments, to optimising cost in existing structures and organisations, to working with the public sector to develop the business cases and delivery plans to get change approved within government and advising through negotiations and processes that support that change.

Our healthcare practice is market-leading and covers a broad range of NHS and broader public sector issues on everything from clinical strategy to operational excellence, to economic and financial modelling. Given our position as a leading advisor to NHS, we are frequently approached to support the most complex and high-profile programmes. Joining our team will expose you to work on a range of high-profile assignments helping providers, commissioners and regulators address their most challenging issues. You will benefit from working with and alongside specialists from several disciplines and experts from our Global Centre of Excellence.

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that work with everyone from enterprises to national government bodies and 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 business is expanding rapidly and is looking for a high-quality candidate to support this growth. We are looking for Managers to join our team in the London office.

The Role

As a Manager in our growing healthcare practice, you will be central to the development of strategy as well as delivery of cost optimisation programmes.

Projects regularly involve working within a wider a multidisciplinary team across KPMG with technical, business, data science, business management, finance or IT skills. Successful candidates will therefore work collaboratively with KPMG colleagues and clients to:

Rapidly diagnose the financial issues faced by the client through analysis and stakeholder engagement
Provide insight based on detailed analysis and working with our network to identify international best practice
Identify and develop initiatives to support rapid cost optimisation for the client
Support detailed planning and implementation of these initiatives
Project manage the delivery of client engagements
Build strong client relationships
Manage input from internal teams and external advisers
Produce high quality documentation and presentations
Drive their personal development and seek out opportunities to access the extensive training on offer at KPMG
Support business development including network building as well as support with development of proposals, pitch presentations and thought leadership
Develop sector specific market intelligence
Introduce new ideas to the team
Ensure engagement administration, compliance and risk management standards are adhered to
Support the performance management, coaching and mentoring of junior team members
Any other duties commensurate with the role.

Alongside the project work there will be opportunities to develop the business, contribute to sales and take advantage of the extensive training and opportunities working at KPMG brings.

The Person

You will be a talented and ambitious senior manager or manager with previous experience of cost optimisation work in the NHS or private healthcare.

The person would be expected to demonstrate many of the following characteristics, although as a training organisation we are interested in hearing from a broad pool of applicants and helping them develop in the next stage of their career.

Desirable skills:

Ability to lead KPMG project teams delivering client engagements;
Robust knowledge of the NHS and plans for its future and a desire to support practice development to respond to that policy agenda;
Have strong report writing experience;
Experience with or interest in benefits quantification and financial analysis;
Ability to present to senior management and executive teams within the NHS;
Ability to be pragmatic and innovative in problem solving;
Financial and operational baselining experience;
Interest in interaction and dialogue with companies, investors, internal and external stakeholders;
Ability to coach others and drive forward a team to successfully bring about positive change;
With support of KPMG leadership, the ability to identify risk and manage commercial and client delivery risks in a high-pressure environment; and
Project Management skills including planning and prioritise work within deadlines for major change programmes.

The diversity or work, opportunities available, calibre of people you will work with and formal learning opportunities available will undoubtedly help accelerate your career – irrespective of whether you stay for two years or the rest of your career.

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.

For more details about a career at KPMG, visit: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk

Why Deal Advisory at KPMG?

We partner with our clients to give them the confidence to make key decisions for their business. It's all about blending our deep sector expertise with our execution skills. Whilst we operate within a robust framework, we'll ensure you have the autonomy you need to shape the strategies behind our clients' decisions and help influence their successes.

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