KPMG’s Advisory Services Practice focuses on fundamental business issues — managing risk, increasing revenues, controlling costs — that organizations, across various industries, should address in order to help them flourish. We help companies to identify and manage risks inherent in business processes and technology systems that support business objectives, and provide them with the information needed to help them meet their strategic and financial goals. Services are specialized to help clients mitigate risks across an overall risk spectrum. We are currently seeking a Manager in Transactions-Strategic Services Group for our Transactions & Restructuring practice to join us in our Silicon Valley office.

Manager, Strategy Job

Date: Mar 23, 2014

Location: Santa Clara, CA, US

Responsibilities:

• Lead client problem formulation and problem solving efforts
• Manage the creation, development, and presentation of final client deliverables
• Act as the day-to-day, full-time project manager to help ensure consistently successful strategy problem solving efforts
• Manage small to medium-sized project teams
• Act as the primary team interface with various levels of client executives
• Manage and support professional development of KPMG Strategy team staff

Qualifications:

• Five years work experience including two post-MBA years in a client-facing strategy discipline at a major strategy firm, a boutique strategy firm or in a strategy consulting discipline at a Big 4 firm is preferred; two years of additional relevant work experience, ideally in high-impact business-wide problem solving work experience for an I-banking firm, private equity firm, or strategy and/or corporate development departments of Fortune 100 firms
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university, preferably in Business Administration, Engineering, or other related field; Master’s degree in Business Administration from an accredited college/university is preferred
• Experience in at least one of the following strategy consulting areas: transaction and business due diligence, operational and performance improvement, strategic growth, or other relevant strategy experience
• Comfort in working across industries and client/project types such as domestic, international (either inbound or outbound), private equity, corporate, government, not-for-profit, organic, and inorganic
• Comfort in working in ill-defined client situations and ability to travel up to seventy percent of the time
• Strong business acumen, strong analytical and problem solving skills

KPMG offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package.

No phone calls or agencies please.

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