A highly skilled Bookkeeper is an invaluable resource for any business. The right expert can deliver timely and accurate financial and tax reports that make business operations and financial reporting much more streamlined and simple.

A truly efficient bookkeeping process can:

• Analyse spending and revenue by item
• Help you monitor current financial position against forecasts and budgets
• Make dealing with regulatory authorities like the ATO or ASIC much easier

A specialist bookkeeper from KPMG Marketplace Secondments is ready to get to work on your business’ books and financial information, almost immediately.

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

Our KPMG professionals have strong bookkeeping experience particularly with small to medium sized business.

If you need some assistance to review processes or if your finance team is short on resourcing for a critical period, we can help bridge the gap.

With a KPMG Marketplace Secondments specialist by your side, you can review your critical business processes and work methodologies, in order to eliminate wasted effort and unnecessary costs.

Our professionals can work directly with you to analyse, improve and streamline your business processes.

We take a holistic view of the business environment, by documenting and mapping business processes and outcomes.

Key benefits of undertaking careful analysis of business processes include:

• Enabling you to discover new ways to increase both agility and efficiency, via improved and streamlined processes
• Identifying opportunities to reduce costs and waste
• Exploring ways to increase output, potentially without additional investment of resources or budget
• Improved accountability, reliability and simplified regulatory compliance

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

Our KPMG professionals have experience looking at the processes of a wide variety of businesses across virtually all key industries. We understand how to document and map what happens in your organisation, allowing us to work as part of your team to streamline processes and allow you to focus on your goals.

Working in tandem with a KPMG Marketplace Secondments Building Compliance specialist, we can assist in analysing your buildings and structures’ existing properties, designs and upgrades, in order to ascertain configuration and design requirements to meet the Building Code of Australia and related compliance.

Our expert Building Certifiers are able to address all components of the BCA, while we create and develop practical recommendations for new projects. We can also evaluate your existing properties to identify potential liabilities and compliance issues when upgrading.

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

KPMG Marketplace Secondments puts a Building Compliance expert with years of experience in addressing BCA certification issues directly into your business to identify and resolve any compliance problems or areas of concern.

Nothing matters more than the physical integrity, compliance and regulatory adherence of your organisation’s buildings and physical structures.

We can quickly help diagnose critical areas of concern with potential building failure, damage and weaknesses.

Once identified and isolated, we then quickly set out to create effective recommendations to address the physical design and construction of the building.

The expert advice available to you is based on specialist design and construction skill sets of persons with deep experience in the forensic evaluation of building points of failure and proven in their ability to derive practical, effective solutions to implement.

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

KPMG Marketplace Secondments puts a Building Pathology expert with years of experience in addressing building construction and design, directly into your business to identify and resolve areas of concern in building integrity, design and construction.

KPMG Marketplace Secondments can work in your business to isolate and define potential costs associated with your current buildings and infrastructure, as you look to the future needs and growth of your business.

Our service brings you specialists who will examine the condition of your properties and infrastructure, and deliver accurate reports and information that can help to determine the best course of action regarding cashflow, investments and future CAPEX and OPEX requirements, based on condition and compliance.

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

KPMG Marketplace Secondments puts a Building Condition Assessment expert with years of experience in building construction and design, directly into your business to identify future needs. We can deliver rapid solutions across Australia, NZ and SE Asia with local expertise.

More than ever, having a clear view and understanding of the environmental impact and aspects associated with your business is essential.

In particular, the physical assets of your business — the buildings, factories and land — can affect, and be affected by, the immediate environment you work in.

A KPMG Marketplace Secondments Environmental specialist enables you to work closely with an environmental scientist able to address building, land, or groundwater contamination.

Our Environmental scientists are deeply experienced in all environmental regulations. They bring years of knowledge and detailed understanding of soil, groundwater, and building contamination. Their engagement with your business can help you to evaluate, remedy and manage any and all environmental and regulatory issues required of your business.

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

KPMG Marketplace Secondments puts an Environmental Services expert with years of experience in understanding building, land, and groundwater contamination, directly into your business. We can deliver rapid solutions across Australia, NZ and SE Asia with local expertise.

The competition amongst businesses for capital investment and funding is becoming increasingly more challenging. Capital providers require a rigorous, even stringent approach in how a business administers its financial picture, and how clearly it runs its books.

Effective financial reporting can help boost your businesses ability to attract and qualify for capital, and report to a board or leadership team.

Strong financial reporting and processes enable you to:

• Provide clear, accurate information for corporate leadership to support important decisions to be made about the business
• Establish a strong basis by which to create business plans and corporate strategy
• Provide the framework to support governance and compliance processes and requirements

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

Our KPMG professionals have deep expertise across a wide range of industries and sectors.

If you need assistance with anything from delivering a set of month-end accounts to completing a quarterly financial report, a KPMG Professional can work directly as part of your team, to help you deliver.

Employing and conducting with the right financial models and forecasting tools can significantly improve your business prospects.

It can be difficult to capture and analyse all the variables within a particular business or opportunity. But with a KPMG specialist working alongside you, a comprehensive financial-model framework can be employed, with the aim to quantify the variables and analyse the most likely results.

A robust financial model can:

• Forecast and predict the performance of an organisation
• Assist in helping an organisation make the right decisions about potential investments and transactions, along with strategy and operational outcomes

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

We work with straightforward and complex financial models for our clients. We understand what methodology and approach is required to deliver accurate results from your model, and how to identify when a model isn’t working effectively.

Whether you need help to get started, or help with your existing models, a KPMG professional can work as part of your team to help you achieve.

Leasing a commercial property can be fraught with problems, pitfalls and disagreements about the condition of the property you lease. This is especially true at the end of a commercial lease where you, as owner, must ensure the property has been maintained to its original condition — or requires repair and replacement to make it so.

Our Property Conditions specialist can work with you to create and develop a highly accurate and comprehensive Schedule of Conditions, as well as Make Good reports to bring the property to optimal standard.

We can also support and assist with negotiation in disagreement or dispute as to the condition of the property, and the degree of responsibility and required action for make-good.

The benefit to you is certainty of the integrity and condition of your valuable property asset, plus the ease and convenience of determining and allocating make-good and repair responsibility at lease end.

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

KPMG Marketplace Secondments puts a Property Conditions expert with years of experience in Commercial Property management directly into your business to help protect your business, and ease the process of transition at the end of a lease. We can deliver rapid solutions across Australia, NZ and SE Asia with local expertise.

A company’s Management team and Board of Directors need clear, comprehensive analysis, information and reporting to enable them to help steer the company to success.

The professionals at KPMG Marketplace Secondments have extensive experience working with listed and non-listed companies, government entities, small business and not-for-profit organisations. This experience benefits any organisation needing to create and develop sound reporting methods and formats.

They understand what’s needed to give Management and Boards the clearest picture possible of the business’ overall health, growth opportunities, and market vulnerabilities.

Robust management and board reporting can:

• Assist company executives and boards to define priorities and add value to their organisation, through development of clear and accurate company reports
• Extract the most information from your company’s financials

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

Our people deal with boards, executive committees and individual directors on a regular basis. It means a highly trained KPMG professional can work with you to develop and refine your management and board reporting.

With the rate of change and increasing complexity for virtually every business, careful Project Management is more important than ever.

The complexities also now place more demands on organisations, demands that have to be understood and managed, if a project is expected to remain on schedule and on budget.

That's where a KPMG Marketplace Secondments expert can help. Our Project & Admin reporting specialists can work with you to develop a project-planning methodology that is right for your business and industry.

We work closely with you to help solve your problem, together. We've enacted a well-structured project management plan that can:

• Define business requirements
• Clearly articulate the business case
• Effectively govern change, either within your organisation or in project specification
• Assist in mitigating business and financial risk

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

Successful project management is a core capability of KPMG professionals. As consultants, we work on and manage projects of all sizes, across a wide range of industries and sectors.

Whether you need short-term project support, assistance with project reporting, mapping or logistics, there’s a KPMG professional who can use their experience to help your team achieve their goals.

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Getting a handle on the most effective and profitable means of utilising your business’ property portfolio can be difficult to determine.

KPMG Marketplace Secondments now offers our expert and highly experienced Property Management Consultants who can work in your business to evaluate, recommend and deliver optimal solutions for best-case use.

We combine KPMG’s renowned business expertise with detailed property and financial understanding, providing you a multi-faceted analysis of investor and occupier operations.

This level of understanding means we can address operating solutions including investor / occupier models, in-source / outsource options, property trusts and managed investment schemes, as well as the ability to address integration with other areas of the business, including Finance.

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

We're specialists in high-level business expertise coupled with detailed property and financial understanding. You benefit from our ability to bring together multi-faceted investor and occupier operations, while also addressing in-source and outsource options and implementation.

KPMG Marketplace Secondments can put a Property Acquisition specialist right into your business, helping you to identify, define and manage the risks and capital costs of acquiring a property.

Our expert will create and provide buy and sell side due diligence reports for any new property purchase your business is considering. The reports outline any risks (legal, structural, financial and other potential risks) involved in purchase, along with a comprehensive understanding of the capital costs and options in acquiring a property.

We also assist with property-sale disclosure requirements, and sale transactions efficiency.

These are all crucial services and business needs when considering a new property purchase, and can represent a significant return on investment, while helping to avoid expensive, but hidden, issues and problems associated with a prospective property.

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

KPMG Marketplace Secondments puts a Property Transactions expert with years of experience in Commercial Property financial management directly into your business to help you make the most of the opportunities in property acquisition. We can deliver rapid solutions across Australia, NZ and SE Asia with local expertise.

Your investments in innovation may take years to pay off. And of course it’s possible your new ideas may fly high, or never get off the ground.

But one thing you can control is taking advantage of the often generous tax incentives that accompany research and development activity.

The key to gaining tax incentives via your organisation’s R&D, however, is to plan and execute the incentive claim appropriately. This is where a KPMG professional can make a big difference. Our experts can work with you to help:

• Identify and scope eligible R&D projects and activities
• Prepare claim documentation
• Assist in calculating complex R&D project expenditure
• Compile supporting evidence for the claim
• Help manage and explain the critical requirements for a successful claim
• Become audit-ready

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

Drawing on our deep insight of different industry sectors and the requirements of the R&D Tax Incentive process, we’ll come to you and help make the process simple. We do this by assisting with information gathering, project scoping, documentation analysis; substantiation, R&D expenditure calculations and responding to regulatory requirements.

Energy consumption associated with a building or other business asset represents costs that aren’t always readily apparent. In every business quest to control costs and improve the bottom line, getting a handle on the true costs of ongoing energy consumption represents a real opportunity for significant savings and effective future-planning.

Our experts can be on hand and in your business to help assess your buildings’ energy consumption patterns, costs and inefficiencies, while also working with you to develop proven and specialised energy management solutions.

Our knowledge and breadth of offering also brings in CAPEX/OPEX forecasting stemming from energy consumption, and the sourcing and procurement of energy suppliers best suited for your business.

The objective is to implement measures of energy efficiency, water usage, waste management and indoor environment quality of a building or tenancy, and its impact on the environment.

The benefit to your business is the ability to then drive down energy consumption and its associated costs, which in turn creates opportunities for short-term payback investments, while also addressing and enabling sustainability certification including NABERS.

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

KPMG Marketplace Secondments puts a Sustainability and Energy Management specialist with years of experience in this area, directly into your business in order to isolate energy/sustainability concerns and implement remedies and improvements. We can deliver rapid solutions across Australia, NZ and SE Asia with local expertise.

This invaluable session enables you to tap into weak signals and explore customer insights, megatrends, technology trends, demographics and millennial preferences in the future of your industry.

The U-Collaborate Emerging Trend Immersion Sessions are 4-hour facilitated sessions for 5 to 30 people, hosted in an innovative, interactive environment designed to help you explore, discover and generate insight into your business.

A single session can help you tackle critical business issues, such as creating a new target operating model or defining a new business process. Each session follows a facilitation approach that is a powerful enabler of alignment and decision-making.

Most importantly, the sessions deliver actual, practical value. The solutions created work in the real world rather than a theoretical document that sits on a shelf, while ownership and commitment from participants to deliver results is established after the event.

Working with our specialists in a U-Collaborate Immersion Session will bring your business:

• New insight and greater clarity
• Accelerated leadership, team alignment and engagement
• Clear and actionable next steps

Why KPMG Marketplace Secondments?

U-Collaborate works with organisations and innovation ecosystems to help solve their most complex problems while creating commitment and ownership across leadership teams and stakeholder groups. A U-Collaborate Immersion session enables you to dive into the unknown with your people and gain deep insight and understanding from KPMG subject matter specialists across a huge variety of subjects.