At KPMG Australia, our Mid-Market & Private – Advisory team specialises in helping clients unlock tangible value—from strategy through to execution. Within this, the Innovation Strategy & Transformation team partners with clients to deliver impactful business change, project delivery, and operational transformation.

Your Opportunity

As an Associate Director, in our Innovation Strategy & Transformation team, you will lead strategic consulting engagements, build trusted relationships with executive stakeholders, and play a key role in growing our practice.

Working across Local Government, Health and Human Services, Defence Industry, and Mid-Market & Private sectors, you will develop innovative solutions that create lasting value for clients.

This role offers the opportunity to lead high-impact engagements, influence strategic decision-making, and contribute to the continued success and growth of KPMG's Advisory business.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead consulting engagements from scoping through to execution and delivery.
• Partner with clients to solve strategic, operational, and organisational challenges.
• Provide leadership across engagement teams, ensuring high-quality client outcomes and project profitability.
• Drive business development activities, including opportunity identification, proposal development, client relationship management, and market engagement.
• Build and maintain trusted executive-level client relationships across a range of sectors.
• Develop innovative solutions using structured problem-solving, data-driven insights, and industry knowledge.
• Lead and contribute to major pursuits, bids, and practice growth initiatives.
• Coach, mentor, and develop Managers and junior team members, fostering a high-performance culture.
• Collaborate across KPMG service lines to deliver integrated client solutions.
• Support the growth and strategic direction of the Innovation Strategy & Transformation

How Are You Extraordinary?

• You thrive in ambiguous and complex environments and enjoy helping clients navigate change.
• You are commercially minded and can identify opportunities to create value for clients and grow relationships.
• You can influence and engage senior executives through clear communication and strategic thinking.
• You build strong teams through coaching, collaboration, and inclusive leadership.

Your Experience

At KPMG, we believe diversity of thought, background and experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, our clients, and communities. To be considered for this opportunity, your qualifications, skills & experience could include:

• Significant experience in management consulting, or advisory services.
• Proven success leading multiple client engagements.
• Strong business development capability and experience managing senior client relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to apply structured thinking and analysis techniques to ambiguous problems
• Strong analytical and communication skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Proven experience in operating model design, organisational change, transformation delivery, business process improvement, business case development, and cost optimisation.
• Strong interpersonal skills and stakeholder management skills
• Willingness to travel as required and current Australian work rights.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Commerce, Economics, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• We welcome applications from interstate candidates and offer relocation assistance for suitable applicants looking to make the move to Perth.

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.

KPMG Australia: grow with us!