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Infrastructure Advisory-East Africa Project Manager at KPMG


KPMG is a professional service company, being one of the Big Four auditors, along with Deloitte, EY and PwC. Seated in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, KPMG employs 174,000 people and has three lines of services: audit, tax, and advisory.



Role and Responsibilities:


This individual will assist the leadership team in day-to-day engagement management on specific projects and will:



  • Provide leadership, direction, and guidance to senior associate and associate team members

  • Develop and present client materials including status reports, project reports and presentations

  • Monitor budgets, schedules, work quality, scope and client deliverables

  • Contribute to hands-on delivery of projects and programmes which may include programme design and development; benefits and quality management; stakeholder management; portfolio management; programme and project planning including milestone management; and risk and issue management.

  • Integral to delivering these responsibilities will be PMO Management, financial management; maintaining risks, issues, assumptions, actions logs; resource forecasting; dependency management; and programme reporting.

  • Work individually and with different teams of the firm to improve our profile in the Infrastructure sector market (through involvement in industry groups, thought leadership, speaking engagements)

  • Establish and develop network of stakeholders in the Infrastructure sector (authorities, regulators, financial institutions, investment funds, developers, contractors, technical advisers and legal advisers etc)

  • Lead and support in business development activities

  • Provide project strategy and development analysis in some or all of the required areas.


Skills, Professional qualifications and Experience:


The ideal candidate has:



  • Bachelor’s degree (combined with a Masters, preferred but not required)

  • Professional registration and/or project management qualifications such as PMP, PRINCE2 or other similar certification will be an added advantage

  • Project feasibility, options appraisal and/or project structuring experience

  • Project procurement experience through to financial close

  • 7-10 years of experience in construction, real estate, infrastructure project management, infrastructure consulting

  • Understanding the lifecycle activities of construction and infrastructure projects

  • Experience with alternative contract types: EPC, PPP, etc

  • Experience building project financial models

  • Experience drafting business plans and feasibility studies

  • Good interpersonal skills

  • Excellent writing and analytical skills

  • Proven capabilities of managing and working with a multi-disciplinary team.

  • Demonstrated initiative and ability to communicate and effectively engage with a diverse group of clients

  • Strong technical, analytical, and problem-solving capabilities

  • Proven track record of “juggling” multiple and competing priorities


Personal attributes:



  • Ability to quickly learn, implement, and utilise business systems.

  • Detail-oriented. Consistently takes a thorough, accurate organised and quality-centered approach

  • Organisation and prioritising. Can effectively address projects, requests and competing priorities. Owning deliverables through to implementation

  • Self-driven mindset. Desires to learn new skills and is willing to share knowledge within the team

  • Provide problem solving assistance.


We offer:



  • An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting edge infrastructural development across Africa.

  • Continuous learning and development.

  • Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams.

  • Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.




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