Opportunity typeInternship, Clerkship or Placement
Application open dateApply by 7 Oct 2024
Start dateStart date 3 Nov 2025 - 1 Dec 2025
Your role
KPMG's valuation professionals provide clients with robust and informed guidance on valuation matters across multiple sectors, deal stages, and business needs. They determine the fair (market) value of equity shares, assets, or complex financial instruments for mergers and acquisitions, financial reporting, tax, and other regulatory standards. Their engagements include providing pre and post-deal Purchase Price Allocations (PPA), Impairment Testing, employee or management incentive scheme valuations, and recurring fund valuations.
As a member of their diverse team, you will help high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. You have the opportunity to develop your career through a range of multifaceted engagements, formal training, as well as informal mentoring. At KPMG, they put their culture and values front and centre. There is nothing more important than investing in their culture because it's an investment in their people, their future, who they are, and what they stand for.
KPMG is seeking an Intern to join their Economic and Valuation Services practice.
Responsibilities:
Analyze competitive industry dynamics and financial condition of peer companies, evaluate business plans, adjust financial statements and build financial models, including discounted cash flow analyses, capital asset pricing models, market multiples methods and replacement cost valuation approaches.
Participate in due diligence activities on pending mergers and acquisitions transactions, public-company purchase price allocations, goodwill impairment measurement, international restructurings and private-company fairness opinions.
Research, analyze and communicate the key qualitative factors and quantitative drivers of companies and industries.
Analyze data and prepare documentation of analyses for financial reporting, tax and other business purposes using various data analysis and visualization tools, including MS Excel, MS Access, MS Power BI, Alteryx and similar tools.
Build capabilities in key technologies that enable tax professionals for client service delivery such as artificial intelligence (AI), Alteryx, Power BI, and more.
About you
Qualifications:
Must be enrolled in an accredited college or university and pursuing the following degrees/majors: Bachelors in Accounting, Economics, Business, Finance, Mathematics, or equivalent program.
Upon completion of this internship, candidates must have additional academic credits to complete before obtaining their degree and/or CPA eligibility requirements.
Preferred GPA of 3.0 or above.
Coursework or minor in Information Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Science or Data and Analytics is preferred.
Demonstrated quality service mindset and knowledge of finance, financial statement analysis, quantitative and competitive analysis, building complex financial models and efficient manipulation of cumbersome data.
Strong technical aptitude, critical thinking skills and ability to navigate MS Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Access, Power BI), Alteryx, Tableau, artificial intelligence (AI) and similar data analysis and visualization tools.
Excellent communication, time management and leadership skills; flexible and adaptable team player; and resourceful in delivering high-quality work.
Must reside within a reasonably commutable distance to the office for this position and be able to travel to reasonably commutable work locations using own means of transportation, such as a personal vehicle or public transportation.
Ability to travel and/or work on-site at client premises as needed, at times with relatively short notice
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).
Benefits
If you join as a full-time employee, you will get the following benefits:
Medical and Dental Plans.
Vision coverage, Disability and Life Insurance.
401(k) plans.
A robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support your mental health.
Depending on job classification, standard work hours, and years of service.
Personal Time Off per fiscal year.
Training & development
The KPMG internship experience is a terrific way to learn business skills, find a mentor, build your network, and gain real-world (even global) experience before graduation. KPMG offers a consistent national training experience for all interns. You will pair up with a mentor who can inspire and guide your internship and your career. Also, you start growing your professional network by interacting with KPMG senior professionals and employees worldwide.
Career progression
KPMG’s internship program can often lead to a full-time job. Upon completing the internship program, you may have the opportunity to transition into a full-time role, paving the way for long-term career growth within the organization.
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