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Job Description & Requirements

We invite highly motivated and dynamic professionals to join our growing Integration and Separation practice in Singapore.

As part of KPMG's Deal Advisory group, the Integration & Separation team provides clients with advisory services to clients related to mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. We are a collaborative, diverse, high performing team, working with high profile corporate and private equity clients on some of the largest and most complex deals in the region and globally. We work across a variety of sectors, with a particular focus on financial services, healthcare and life sciences, and TMT. The team's key proposition areas are as follows:

• Integration: Planning pre- and post-deal to support clients to safely deliver and take control of acquisitions, or facilitate JV partnerships, and integrate acquisitions, whilst enhancing value.
• Separation: Supporting vendors to strategically deliver credible carve-out concepts, strategies plans, and execution, with value preserved and business continuity ensured.
• Synergies: Helping clients understanding the potential benefits and costs of a transaction, or critically evaluating synergy cases.
• Due diligence: Highlighting key operational risks, opportunities and, if applicable, execution readiness at a target, order to ensure that acquirers are aware of key issues that may impact valuation or smooth and safe delivery of a transaction.
• Operations and value creation: Using our data and analytics capabilities, as well as subject matter and sector/functional specialists, we help clients reduce costs, release cash and create revenue, both in-deal and post-deal.

Your role:

As an Associate Director within the team, your role will entail client-facing delivery, as well as development, mentoring and coaching of the team. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading and supporting client engagements from a Technology perspective, delivering high levels of client satisfaction throughout engagements; ownership of deliverables and outputs (which can include integration/separation strategies, designs and plans; synergies analysis/reviews; due diligence reports), and driving collaboration within project team(s) to assist clients in executing M&A related projects across multiple functions (including finance, technology, supply chain, HR, etc.), geographies, and within the project management office (PMO).
• Application of the KPMG global deal execution methodologies to the practical aspects of business operations and the client's market sector throughout the engagement process to support sound and practical recommendations to clients
• Understand and articulate graphically and verbally the sources of value for Technology-based synergies, and help assess client's assumptions to support the pre-signing process
• Understanding, articulating and helping clients mitigate against likely issues that could impact project success
• Working collaboratively with wider KPMG service lines and geographies to support clients
• Supporting client pitches, proposals, business development initiatives and internal/external marketing initiatives
• Ensuring KPMG engagement quality and risk management procedures are consistently applied on each engagement to protect the interests of our clients, as well as KPMG.

The ideal candidate should have:

• 8-12 years of experience working in Technology and Consulting

• Relevant degree and/or post-graduate qualification

• Candidates should ideally have either:

1. Integration experience in a post- merger scenario, or

2. Carve-out experience within a divestiture

3. Leading Technology Due Diligence

• Track record of leading complex projects with multi-disciplinary teams in a consulting, corporate or public sector environment will be considered too.

• Managing or supporting high-value business development activities with senior stakeholders

• Worked with stakeholders at various levels

• Excellent verbal / written communication and presentation skills

Technical skills:

• Ability to articulate on the key issues and strategic considerations facing the industry to C-suite clients.
• Leading and supporting our clients on IT DD, acquisitions, divestitures, carve outs and other transactions
• Understanding of the deal lifecycle and the role of Technology within it - starting from due diligence to concluding transitional service agreements
• Developing additional products and potential revenue streams focused on AI based solutions in transactions
• Expanding IT DD knowledge, capabilities, and experience across the team
• Strong self-motivation to drive innovation and create new services with focus on AI/Tools in integration and separation scenario
• Ability to evaluate complex challenges and deliver insightful recommendations that can be practically executed.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted by KPMG Talent Acquisition team, personal data collected will be used for recruitment purposes only.