Assistant Manager - Major Projects Advisory

Job Title: Senior Consultant

Function: Business Consulting Transformation -Major Projects Advisory (MPA)

Base Location: Delhi / Mumbai / Hyderabad

Project Location: Anywhere in India

Overview

KPMG in India provides a specialist Major Projects Advisory (‘MPA’) services to enable Project Owners / Promoters, Government bodies, and/or other stakeholders to deliver infrastructure and construction projects successfully. The MPA services proposition is to enable our clients to achieve leadership in project delivery and operational excellence across the asset / project lifecycle. In offering MPA services, we do not replace typical project entities such as the internal client teams, PMCs, design consultants, others, but instead align objectives, implement delivery frameworks, improve visibility and decision making, and maximize opportunities for enhancing project outcomes, while reducing project failure risk.

The MPA team is currently expanding and seeks experienced industry / advisory professionals to undertake challenging assignments in a high-performance work environment.

Role & Responsibilities

 Deliver advisory services (one or more workstreams) under team lead guidance and ensure service quality

 Actively support teams on opportunities for business development

 Develop and maintain knowledge repositories and share assignment specific learning across teams

 Support in developing path-breaking / innovative concepts and methodologies for our infrastructure solutions / clients

 Enhance and sharpen advisory / consulting skills

 Demonstrate innovation in work methods, client service, knowledge accumulation and dissemination

The Individual

 Excellent communication skills (verbal and non-verbal)

 Ability to work well in a team

  Project Management functional knowledge and practical experiences in managing large capital projects

 Strong technical knowledge; can include ‘in one or more specific infrastructure sectors’, and/or ‘generalist knowledge across sectors and specific skills in particular phase(s) of the project lifecyle’

 Ability to work in a high-performance and dynamic environment

 Strong analytical, research and advisory skills, and abilities at being a fast-learner

 Client service culture and excellent relationship management skills

  Experience in using Primavera or MSProject for developing baselines and enabling key project decisions

 Willingness to travel and extended stay at client locations

 Candidates with prior consulting experience and demonstrable capability in technology, ERP, data analytics, digital tools and / or ESG are preferred

Qualification

?Engineering / Architecture / Commerce Degree and Post-Graduation in Management / CA or Equivalent

?6 years of post-qualification experience in project management with industrial construction of Oil Refinery, Chemical Plants, Manufacturing Plant Projects, Infrastructure projects like Airports, Ports, Highways, Metro, Water & Irrigation

?Functional experience in project controls, project planning and monitoring, budget and cost management, project reviews, PMO set-up and implementation, risk management, procurement and contract management is desired.