Manager - Performance & Reward

The Performance & Reward team are looking for a Manager to join their friendly, multi-disciplinary team (our team includes people with backgrounds in finance, legal, tax, accounting, HR, management consulting). 

Your Opportunity

We are looking for switched on people who enjoy solving complex problems. 

In short, we help companies decide how to remunerate and incentivise their top people. This can be advising ASX50 Boards on what their CEO’s salary and incentive package should look like, or helping a tech start-up design and implement an employee share option plan that will allow them to attract talent and grow their business. 

This team and this role’s goal is to accurately advise our clients, we must understand their business, their strategy, and the remuneration landscape (what is considered appropriate). This means gaining a breadth of knowledge across industries and taking the time to understand individual clients and their priorities. Our diversely skilled team enables us to deliver solutions that fit their commercial needs, while navigating legal, tax and accounting implications, and investor and community expectations. 

Key areas where we support our clients include: 

• Design of executive and broad-based remuneration frameworks having regard to our client’s unique strategic, cultural and talent agendas as well as external expectations in respect of reward. 
• Assistance in the communication of remuneration frameworks both externally (i.e. Remuneration Reports and support with external engagement) and internally to participants.   
• Assistance with the implementation of variable reward frameworks (including tax and legal advice). 
• Undertaking regulatory reviews in financial services such as CPS 511 compliance and effectiveness reviews.  
• Support with WGEA reporting requirements.  
• Benchmarking of remuneration quantum executives and non-executive directors. 

Your Responsibilities

• Delivery of advice to clients and engagement management across multiple clients and projects. 
• Responsibility for day-to-day communication with clients (alongside the Engagement Partner or Director). 
• Managing input from consultants and senior consultants and providing technical input and review to ensuring high quality deliverables for our clients.   
• Mentoring of consultants and senior consultants (which could be both formal and informal). 
• Support with business development (which may include preparation of proposals, client updates and thought leadership). 

How are you Extraordinary

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:  

• Reward or consulting experience (is preferred). 
• Ability to think critically and explain complex concepts simply (both verbally and in written form). 
• Capability in managing multiple stakeholders (both client and internal) and projects 
• Actively and respectfully listens to others’ views and is willing to put forward their own perspective.  
• Excellent client interaction skills, able to help clients identify and solve their challenges, technical and practical. 
• Capability of running multiple engagements of varying size and scope with varying timeframes and delivering successful outcomes. 
• Skills required to be a team player who enjoys working collaboratively with others in our team and with teams from across KPMG.  
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills 

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.