Associate Consultant HR M&A Full Time

#KGS

KPMG Global Services (KGS) was set up in India in 2008. It is a strategic global delivery organization, which works with more than 50 KPMG member firms to provide a progressive, scalable and customized approach to business requirements

The KGS journey has been one of consistent growth, with a current employee count of nearly 10,000 operating from four locations in India — Bengaluru, Gurugram, Kochi, Pune and Mumbai providing a range of Advisory and Tax-related services to member firms within the KPMG network.

As part of KPMG in India, we were ranked among the top companies to work for in the country for four years in a row by LinkedIn, and recognized as one of the top three employers in the region for women, as well as for policies on Inclusion & Diversity by ASSOCHAM (The Associated Chambers of Commerce & Industry of India).

Team Overview

The position in discussion is with Integration & Separation (I&S), Technology in M&A within the Deal Advisory group at KPMG Global Services (KGS), which is KPMG’s global delivery center and an integral part of the firm’s strategy to enhance innovation, build scalability, and improve profitability globally.

• KGS DA&S has been providing solutions to KPMG member firms globally. By leveraging insights and applying best practices, the team helps create customized approaches to M&A transactions. The team’s capabilities include Corporate Finance, Transaction Services, Strategy, Business Modelling, Accounting Advisory Services, Deal Advisory Research and Benchmarking.

Responsibilities

We are recruiting for Associate Consultant in the HR M&A team.

Roles & responsibilities

• Working with onshore colleagues to lead and provide support on a wide variety of M&A projects including global programs from a people, workforce analytics and organization effectiveness perspective
• Support and sometimes lead work streams on HR I&S projects, supporting client work stream leads to fulfil their work stream objectives
• Work with project teams to analyze workforce data by applying key analytical tools to provide key insights and suggest solutions to solve complex client challenges
• Demonstrate technical and analytical competence in a deal context for key HR aspects: HR Operations, Labor Relations & Compliance, Organization & Talent Management and Employee Experience and Day 1 comms
• Proactively co-ordinate with onshore engagement teams to procure new engagements / engagement work, obtain clarifications, communicate progress and post-delivery de-brief and feedback
• Seek ownership for independent engagement and tasks and on larger engagements oversee the work of more junior team members
• Assist in the development and presentation of final project deliverables
• Provide coaching and development opportunities for junior team members, and act as a mentor to colleagues within the team
• Work with cross-functional teams in implementing services, lead team interviews and hold workshops as necessary
• When you are not working on a project, you will provide support to senior colleagues in preparation of proposal materials

Qualifications

This role is for you if you have the below

Educational Qualifications

• MBA / Bachelor’s degree in a related field from an accredited college/university preferably with major in Human resources

Work Experience

• 1-3 years of total work experience

Mandatory Technical & Functional Skills

• Experience of working on M&A projects including an understanding of HR’s involvement in the deal process is desirable
• Experience of working with Powered BI, Alteryx, Tableau
• Relevant professional experience, including previous work with a Big 4, global management consultancy firm, or performed an in-house role in which you gained exposure to a large-scale project(s)
• Experience working within an HR function including workforce analytics, organization effectiveness, people strategy, organizational design, HR operating model, HR Process efficiency & policy, change management, employee engagement, talent management (Not all specialisms are required and a deep understanding in one area may be sufficient)
• Experience of handling multiple stakeholders including ownership of deliverables and good commercial acumen
• High quality outputs on Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint. Knowledge or experience on Visio, OrgVue would also be beneficial

Preferred Technical & Functional Skills

• Analysis, problem solving and Report writing
• A basic understanding of project management methodologies and outputs
• Good client relationship skills