Manager/Senior Manager,Enterprise Transformation & Turnaround - Strategy
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About the Role
KPMG Canada is seeking a high-performing Engagement Manager for their Transformation & Turnaround team in Montreal. The role involves leading performance improvement engagements, analytics, and team leadership.
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Responsibilities
- Lead end to end engagements delivering performance improvement across revenue, cost, and cash levers
- Translate objectives into structured delivery plan with workstreams, milestones, owners, dependencies, and governance
- Drive initiative design and mobilization: sizing logic, business cases, execution plans, and value tracking
- Establish and run a transformation 'control tower' to keep execution on pace
- Supervise teams to run analytical models (Excel, Alteryx, Python) to quantify operational and financial drivers
- Clean, structure, and analyze messy datasets; create transparent methods and client ready outputs
- Develop sensitivity/scenario analyses to support decision making
- Support stabilization when required: near term cash visibility, working capital actions, spend controls
- Lead operational and commercial deep dives (procurement, supply chain, SG&A, pricing, cost to serve, productivity)
- Mobilize teams across the client organization and keep owners accountable
- Coach and develop analysts; raise the bar on structured problem solving
- Contribute to practice building: proposals, reusable tools/templates, playbooks, and delivery accelerators
Requirements
- 6–12+ years of experience in management consulting, transformation, performance improvement, turnaround/restructuring, PE ops, or equivalent execution leadership roles
- Strong problem solving skills with quantitative rigor
- Proven delivery leadership across complex, cross functional workstreams
- Strong financial fluency; working capital understanding is a strong asset
- Excellent communication skills in French and English (written and verbal)
- Undergraduate degree in business/commerce, engineering, economics, operations, or related field; MBA, Master’s, CFA, or equivalent is an asset
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Overview
- KPMG in Canada is looking for a high performing Engagement Manager to join the Transformation & Turnaround team in Montreal.
- You will lead high stakes mandates where clients need results fast in the context of strategy, performance improvement and transactions.
What You Will Do
- Transformation delivery: Lead end to end engagements delivering performance improvement across revenue, cost, and cash levers.
- Translate objectives into a structured delivery plan with workstreams, milestones, owners, dependencies, and governance.
- Drive initiative design and mobilization: sizing logic, business cases, execution plans, and value tracking.
- Establish and run a transformation 'control tower' that keeps execution on pace.
- Analytics & modeling: Supervise teams to run analytical models (Excel, Alteryx, Python).
- Clean, structure, and analyze messy datasets; create transparent methods and client ready outputs.
- Develop sensitivity/scenario analyses to support decision making.
- Performance improvement in pressured environments: Support stabilization when required.
- Lead operational and commercial deep dives (procurement, supply chain, SG&A, pricing, cost to serve, productivity).
- Mobilize teams across the client organization and keep owners accountable.
- Team leadership & practice building: Coach and develop analysts.
- Contribute to practice building: proposals, reusable tools/templates, playbooks, and delivery accelerators.
What You Bring To The Role
- 6–12+ years of experience in management consulting, transformation, performance improvement, turnaround/restructuring, PE ops, or equivalent.
- Strong problem solving skills (structured thinking + quantitative rigor).
- Proven delivery leadership across complex, cross functional workstreams.
- Strong financial fluency; working capital understanding is a strong asset.
- Excellent communication skills in French and English (written and verbal).
- Undergraduate degree in business/commerce, engineering, economics, operations, or related field; MBA, Master’s, CFA, or equivalent is an asset.
Traits That Matter In This Role
- High ownership: you take accountability for outputs.
- Curiosity and learning agility: you seek better methods.
- Practical orientation: you care about what will actually work.
- In person collaboration mindset: you enjoy working from the office regularly.
Nice to have
- Hands on experience with Alteryx, Python or Power BI.
- Exposure to commercial strategy, M&A, post merger integration, turnaround/transformation, cost reduction, working capital.
- Experience with operational improvement toolkits (Lean/Six Sigma, process mapping, KPI systems).
- Ability to travel occasionally.
Why Join Us
- Work on high impact mandates with senior client exposure across deals, growth, and transformation.
- Build a rare skillset combining strategy + analytics + value creation execution.
- Learn from experienced practitioners and accelerate your development.
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