Assistant Manager-KDNI
This position is no longer accepting applications(closed Aug 4, 2026).
•Proposed designation : Assistant Manager
•Role type: Project execution and management
•Reporting to: Manager/ Associate Director
•Work timings: Normal Shift
•Connect with research and benchmarking users (advisors from KPMG member firm) to understand project objectives, scope, and deliverables.
•Manage available staff resources and secure additional resource as required
•Effectively manage the request intake process including participating in project scoping calls to clarify understanding and prepare a detailed project scope document capability
•Deals confidently with challenges by responding with a rationale to support their argument
•Conceive, design and execute secondary research on:
•Company: business model, segments, revenue model, strategy, issues / challenges, M&A history, competitive positioning, organization structure, key management, recent developments, SWOT, etc
•Market: industry value chain, size and growth outlook, trends and drivers, growth inhibitors and challenges, competitive landscape, Porter’s / PESTLE analysis, etc
•Benchmarking: basic understanding of the role of support functions, salary benchmarking, cost benchmarking, and vendor assessment from a business perspective
•Benchmarking: basic understanding of the role of support functions, salary benchmarking, cost benchmarking, and vendor assessment from a business perspective
•Financials: broad analysis of income statement, balance sheet, cash flows, ratios, segment performance, etc
•Competitors: comparative performance of companies on financial and operational KPIs, relative strengths and weaknesses, etc
•Location Assessment: understanding of the demographic, socio-political and workforce enablers
•Drive the analysis of the above to draw key insights; map a company’s strategy and pain points to KPMG’s services, in order to advise the practitioners on possible business development opportunities /scope; deliver insights on client engagements; etc.
•Articulate findings through visually appealing / appropriate frameworks and in a clear, concise, and grammatically correct business English (both written and verbal)
•Articulate findings through visually appealing / appropriate frameworks and in a clear, concise, and grammatically correct business English (both written and verbal)
•Ensure effective presentation of client deliverables – prepare client ready presentations that are well structured, logical and clear to understand
•Guide Consultants, Senior Analysts (SA) and Business Associates (BA) across each stage of projects – from communicating client requirements, scoping and work allocation, to continuous supervision and review across secondary research, data analysis and discussions, story-boarding, and preparing deliverables
•Ensure highest quality (for self and team members output) and on-time delivery for all the projects.
•Independently handle multiple projects, with minimal supervision from Manager/Assistant Manager
•Provide on-the-job and other classroom-based training (technical/databases) to juniors, and implement regular feedback mechanism
•Work collaboratively with onshore KPMG teams in the development of and delivery of presentations and key findings
•Drive the team’s operations (staffing, MI, etc.) and key initiatives (such as training, team get together, BD collaterals, etc.)
•Contribute to BU level initiatives / assist in executing tasks (e.g. training)
•The candidate must have 6-8 years of relevant experience in a similar role, particularly in a professional services firm / third-party KPO / specialized research houses, or research divisions of investment banks; with Graduate qualification
•Prior experience in team management (of 5-7 juniors for 2-3 years) – ability to identify team members’ strengths, development areas and training needs, effectively allocating work, providing feedback, etc.