Posted 18 August, 2026
Assistant Manager / Manager - Enterprise Advisory
KPMG New Zealand
Wellington
Full Time
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When your career starts at KPMG, you are joining one of the most trusted and respected global professional services firm. Through depth of expertise, clarity of insight and strength of purpose we help our clients solve complex challenges, steer change, strengthen, transition, and grow. We are looking for talented people who share our purpose of inspiring confidence and empowering change for our clients, our people, and our communities. Find your path here!
You will be joining our Private Enterprise - Advisory practice who work alongside New Zealand's privately-owned businesses and help them achieve their strategic goals. Our clients, include international businesses, private companies and high net worth families who operate and invest across a variety of industries rely on us for insights, manage compliance and to drive growth.
At KPMG, we care about your career progression and recognize your hard work. This is a fantastic opportunity for you to build on your existing experience.
The opportunity:
- We're looking for a Senior Accountant to join our Private Enterprise team in Auckland and play a pivotal role in the success of these clients.
- You will form part of a team that builds trusted relationships and with training and support provide insights that drive decisions and guide critical transitions, supporting not just business operations, but the ambitious families and entrepreneurs behind them.
- You will get to work alongside other like-minded professionals who are focused on privately owned business but also be connected to the broader KPMG expertise in other service lines.
Day to day you will:
- Manage a portfolio of client engagements, consulting with Partners and Directors as appropriate.
- Be part of a team that assists clients with a variety of financial deliverables; including management reporting, cash flow forecasts, provisional tax, GST, FBT.
- Engage with clients to understand their challenges and offer solutions, including providing assistance where required with business tools, such as Xero, Taxlab and Excel.
- Deliver engagements to high quality, commercial and profitability standards, including utilisation and productivity expectations.
- Build and maintain strong external networks with peers, alumni, global contacts, social contacts and existing clients.
- Use your knowledge of KPMG's service offerings to identify and generate new business opportunities.
- Develop valuable engagement knowledge, proposals, case studies and deliverables that can be shared across the firm.
- Coaching, developing, supervising, and providing quality assurance for staff work
- Grow your technical or practice area expertise while staying aware of industry, market and competitor trends.
- Utilisation of AI tools to efficiently deliver the best outcomes for clients
What you will bring to our team:
- 4+ years of experience in a business advisory role. Preferably from a mid-tier or big 4 environment.
- A proactive, client-focused mindset dedicated to driving business growth and innovation.
- Commercial acumen and an ability to achieve financial and operational objectives.
- Strong analytical ability to transform data into strategic insights.
- Exceptional communication skills, adept at engaging a diverse range of clients.
- The ability to build constructive relationships across teams and share knowledge to support others.
Recruitment Agencies: The recruitment for this role is being managed directly by the KPMG Talent Acquisition team. We will contact our preferred agency partners if we require agency assistance. Thank you for your understanding.
Life at KPMG
KPMG values diversity in the workforce and we encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply for roles, including individuals with a disability, additional mental health needs, chronic health conditions or who identify as neurodivergent.
For disabled and neurodiverse candidates, if you encounter accessibility barriers or if you have access needs and require support to participate equitably in the recruitment process, please email Emma at [email protected].
For any general questions about the role or recruitment process, feel free to reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected].
We offer rewarding careers to talented individuals and a holistic range of benefits to support your life balance, whatever your circumstance. We want you to do Work That Matters, Thrive and Grow and know that you Belong here with us, at KPMG.
As a KPMG employee, we will offer you:
- Access to the firm's annual incentive scheme
- Opportunities for local and international secondments
- Hybrid working across a mix of office, client and home hubs to recognise that people have individual circumstances and preferences when it comes to where and how they work
- The ability to work from overseas and extend time connecting with friends and family outside New Zealand
- Flexible leave options, including the ability to purchase additional annual leave
- Gender-neutral support for all stages of the parental journey, including access to 18 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents
- A paid professional association membership of your choice
- Digital accreditations through our partnership with Microsoft, LinkedIn Learning, with bespoke learning pathways for all employees
- A wide-range of special offers and discounts on insurances, banking services, and lifestyle goods and services
- The support, allyship and opportunity to join our many Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Affinity networks, including the Kiwa, Pride, Ethnicity, Accessibility and Wahine groups
- The opportunity to participate in Green Team activities, as we work toward reducing the firm's environmental footprint and become carbon zero by 2030
- An invitation to join your local Social club and enjoy events aimed at bringing people together for social, sporting, cultural, family and fundraising activities
- Paid time off for volunteering and involvement in citizenship activities
- An array of health and wellness benefits such as free flu vaccinations, subsidised sporting events, free confidential counselling services, additional 5 days of Wellbeing leave to support you and your family's overall health and wellness, access to our Wellbeing portal with an extensive range of advice and resources and much much more!
We believe that diversity of background and experience strengthens relationships and delivers meaningful benefits to our people, clients and communities. Our goal is to be recognised as an employer of choice for all, irrespective of gender, ethnicity, generation, flexible work status, family circumstances, sexual orientation or disability. Further info can be found on our website.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
