Associate Director - Major Projects Advisory

About KPMG in India

KPMG entities in India are professional services firm(s). These Indian member firms are affiliated with KPMG International Limited. KPMG was established in India in August 1993. Our professionals leverage the global network of firms, and are conversant with local laws, regulations, markets and competition. KPMG has offices across India in Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chandigarh, Chennai, Gurugram, Jaipur, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Noida, Pune, Vadodara and Vijayawada. 

KPMG entities in India offer services to national and international clients in India across sectors. We strive to provide rapid, performance-based, industry-focused and technology-enabled services, which reflect a shared knowledge of global and local industries and our experience of the Indian business environment.

We are a global network of professional service firms comprising 162,000 people across 155 countries offering Audit, Tax and Advisory services to clients.

KPMG offers a specialist solution titled Major Projects Advisory (‘MPA’) to enable Project Owners / Promoters, Government bodies, Banks, PE and Financial institutions and/or other stakeholders to implement their growth strategies and deliver their capital investment programs and projects successfully. The KPMG MPA services proposition enables our clients to achieve leadership in capital program and project implementation and operational excellence across the project lifecycle. In offering MPA services, we do not replace typical project entities such as the internal client teams, site engineers, PMCs, design or technical consultants. Instead MPA services help align objectives and stakeholders, improve governance, visibility and decision making, leverage proven frameworks, methodologies and digital tools to maximize opportunities for enhancing project outcomes, optimize project spends and reduce time and project failure risk. This service offering positions us as the Client’s management representative, aiding them in timely, informed and confident decision-making.

This consistent approach and value created for our clients across our assignments have allowed KPMG’s MPA team to scale up to being India’s largest team of dedicated professionals offering management consulting services to capital investment programs and projects . Globally, the MPA team has approximately 300+ dedicated and experienced professionals of which approximately 150 are based in India. Over the past decade, this India-based MPA team has helped their clients oversee more than USD 150 Billion worth capital investments in India and overseas. KPMG MPA team members gain from an exposure to multiple industries, their investment models and complexities, hands-on experience at problem solving, building and leveraging digital tools, predictive analytics and ESG based solutions, and enjoying exposure to and learning experiences in managing very senior professionals (CXOs, Board Members) on continued basis. Importantly, we enjoy the opportunity to create a significant impact and fast-track infrastructure and asset creation, accelerating the investment outcomes for our clients and the wider communities.

KPMG’s MPA team is in the process of enhancing capacity for its ‘MPA Centre of Excellence’ that develops and implement standardized methodologies to infuse expertise and specific skills to our ongoing assignments across India and overseas. The MPA Centre of Excellence’s current mandate is to serve our ongoing Owners Management Consulting (‘OMC’) / Program Management Office (‘PMO’) assignments; and will be expanded to cover other areas such as Capital procurement and project Cost optimisation, project commercial management, contracts and claims management amongst others. This will create a steady path for deserving leaders to grow and own areas of specialization expertise within the wider domain of large-scale capital investment programs and projects.

The MPA Centre of Excellence (‘MPA CoE’) currently seeks to appoint a leader bringing specific expertise areas:

1. Program and project-level planning, scheduling, baselining and critical path management (for owner and underlying service providers), progress measurement, monitoring and reporting,

2. Predictive analytics, scenario building and forecasting,

3. Application of time optimisation levers with the wider project team, articulating associated/underlying activities such as optimised work methodologies, crashing and parallel processing, etc., and creating targets,

4. Leverage methodologies such as OTIF, TOC, CCPM, lean and other planning and control methods for improved project performance,

5. Serve as KPMG Subject Matter Expert on business pitches to clients and during client service delivery to enhance KPMG’s value proposition (showcase domain / industry capability and expertise as outlined above)

Key Role & Responsibilities

• Lead the MPA Centre of Excellence (‘MPA CoE’) by defining and implementing processes, developing capabilities, managing talent and delivering quality for capital program and project delivery.
• Implement processes, identify and deploy tools and/or resources for Centre of Excellence to deliver quality deliverables to MPA projects and clients.
• Explore opportunities to identify activities / tasks from multiple consulting assignment to be taken up by the Centre of Excellence
• Capture, document and demonstrate the value created by the MPA CoE and wider MPA project team,
• Define standards, handbooks / manuals and conduct trainings across the wider MPA team.
• Build and manage a team to grow specialization in these areas, and
• Identify team members from within and outside of the firm to work on various areas of project implementation to work in MPA CoE such as Project Controls, Contract Management, Schedule Management, Data Analytics, Technology Implementation, Report Preparation etc.
• Develop and mentor teams and create future leaders
• Create path-breaking / innovative concepts and methodologies for capital projects’ solutions / clients and enable through digital tools and technology solutions
• Identify improvement and efficiency opportunities across the function, which can be taken up by Centre of Excellence
• Gather understanding of MPA’s client and team to collaborate across locations, sectors, projects and solutions for successfully developing and leveraging capability from the Centre of Excellence.

Key Skills

• Excellent communication skills (verbal and non-verbal)
• Ability to work well in a team and function naturally as a team leader
• Project Management functional knowledge and practical experiences in managing large Centre of Excellence / Delivery Centers for capital projects
• Sound technical knowledge and domain expertise; can include ‘deep knowledge in one or more specific industry sectors’, and/or ‘generalist knowledge across sectors and specific skills in particular phase(s) of the project lifecycle’, preferred industries include – metals, mining, industrial manufacturing, oil & gas, automotives, natural and renewable energy, transportation (roads, metro, rail), wider infrastructure including urban development (not a restrictive list)
• Knowledge of global best practices related to the specific expertise areas called out above. Candidates with experience of serving at global capability centres would have an advantage
• Ability to work in a high-performance and dynamic environment
• Strong analytical, research and consulting skills, and abilities at being a fast-learner
• Experience in using Primavera, ERP, Schedule Analytics, BIM, Digital Twin and other technical software to train teams in implementation in delivery.
• Experience of working and leading teams for delivery centers to cater and serve client facing teams, preferably in the sector of capital construction projects.