Associate Director, Commercial Advisory & Transactions, Real Estate

Infrastructure challenges are becoming increasingly complex, demanding integrated and innovative solutions. KPMG's Commercial Advisory and Transactions group provide strategic, financial, and transaction management advice on major infrastructure projects. Our Real Estate team helps drive the growth and regeneration of precincts and places by guiding clients through complex real estate strategies, projects, and social infrastructure transactions.

 

Your Opportunity

As part of the Real Estate team, you’ll play a critical role in driving market opportunities by:  

• Supporting large-scale city-shaping and urban renewal and social infrastructure projects with commercial and financial advice.
• Delivering precincts tied to many of Australia’s largest and most complex real estate, place, and infrastructure projects.
• Assisting clients in the assessment, analysis, and procurement of assets to support their financial, commercial, service delivery, and corporate objectives. 
• Collaborating with KPMG specialists across a range of disciplines (i.e., tax, legal, finance, economics, valuations, M&A, engineering, planning and urban design) to provide integrated solutions for our clients. 

Our team is embedded within the Infrastructure, Asset & Places group and is differentiated by our experience across all stages of the real estate and place life cycle and connected with KPMG’s wider specialised service offering for these sectors.

 

How are you extraordinary?

• You have deep commercial and financial analytical skills and a demonstrated major project experience.
• You are skilled in leading and delivering commercial advice across transactions, business cases, feasibility studies, options analysis, and financial modelling. 
• You want to deliver some of Australia’s most significant real estate, urban renewal and precinct and place infrastructure projects, contributing to Australian’s future prosperity.
• You are an excellent communicator and leader, able to translate technical insights into clear, actionable advice for diverse stakeholders.
• You bring a collaborative mindset, working seamlessly with multidisciplinary teams to deliver integrated solutions.

 

Your Skills and Experiences

You will bring to the team your qualifications, skills and experience such as:

• Developing commercial or financial advice to support clients with their planning, procurement, and delivery of projects or investments, including transaction management, business cases and analysing procurement and delivery options.
• Feasibility and financial modelling to support financial assessments of varying commercial structures, preparation of financial models to inform value for money assessments.
• Advising on transaction strategy or delivery model analysis, including developing commercial and contracting structures property or social infrastructure projects.
• Developing go-to-market transaction strategies and undertaking market sounding activities.
• Developing procurement documentation, particularly for highly interactive, complex, and multi-phase (e.g., EOI, RFP) procurement processes, commercial principles, commercial framework, term sheets, and commercial contract schedules with an ability to convey complex ideas into simple concepts.
• Financial and commercial evaluation of tender responses including drafting and development of associated approvals documentation throughout procurement processes such as briefing papers, reports, memorandums.
• Stakeholder engagement with experience coordinating multidisciplinary inputs to support project delivery.

• Tertiary qualifications in commerce, finance, property economics, law, engineering, or a similar discipline.

KPMG is a professional services firm with global outreach and deep sector experience. We work with clients across an array of industries to solve complex challenges, steer change and enable growth. 

Our people are what make KPMG the thriving workplace that it is and what sets us apart is that we know great minds think differently. Collaborate with a team of passionate, highly skilled professionals who’ve got your back. You’ll build relationships with unique and diverse colleagues who will provide you with the support you need to be your best and produce meaningful and impactful work in an inclusive, equitable culture.

At KPMG, you’ll take control over how you work. We’re embracing a new way of working in many ways, from offering flexible hours and locations to generous paid parental leave and career breaks. Our people enjoy a variety of exciting perks, including retail discounts, health and wellbeing initiatives, learning and growth opportunities, salary packaging options and more.

Diverse candidates have diverse needs. During your recruitment journey, information will be provided about adjustment requests. If you require additional support before submitting your application, please contact the Talent Attraction Support Team.

At KPMG every career is different, and we look forward to seeing how you grow with us.