KPMG Capital Markets is a fast-growing practice with high client demand. Our professionals thrive in a collaborative, team-driven culture. At KPMG, our people are our number one priority. With a wealth of learning and career development opportunities, and leading market tools, we ensure our people continue to grow both professionally and personally. As part of our team, you will work cross-functionally throughout KPMG and closely with some of Sweden's most well-known specialists.

About Us

Capital Markets is part of KPMG Deal Advisory which consists of four departments: Capital Markets, Transaction Services, Deal Strategy and Corporate Finance. As a team, Capital Markets take on a wide range of assignments within our four service lines: IPO & ESG readiness, Deal Accounting, US Capital Markets and Digital Capital Markets.

Our Deal Accounting team specializes in transaction-related matters, encompassing both private and public deals. We assist companies in planning, structuring, and managing the financial effects of their transactions. Additionally, our team supports finance functions undergoing transformation, often linked to transactions or IPOs, where enhanced processes and reporting are essential.

Your Role

As an Associate in Deal Accounting, you will develop your knowledge in a variety of questions related to companies in a listed environment or on the way to become listed and financial reporting matters in connection with deal transactions. Your daily work may include:

• Assisting in the analysis of structuring and accounting questions related to capital market transactions (e.g., carve-outs, mergers/demergers, pro forma requirements).
• Supporting companies with the preparation of financial information, including annual reports, interim reports, and pro forma financials.
• Providing quality assurance of prospectuses and analysis in transaction structuring.
• Assist finance functions in transactions with internal and external reporting as well as process improvements.
• Supporting companies to establish an internal control framework and improved financial processes that ensure accurate financial reporting and information disclosures.
• Building your network through relationships with senior stakeholders at the client and within KPMG.

What We Offer

If you’re looking for a firm with a strong team connection where you can be your whole self, have an impact, advance your skills, deepen your experiences, and have the flexibility and access to constantly find new areas of inspiration and expand your capabilities, then consider a career at KPMG Capital Markets. We want our employees' careers to be characterized by the opportunity for the individual to influence their personal development. Therefore, you will get a Performance Manager who becomes your personal coach, and together you will set up your individual development plan.

Who are we looking for

We believe that in order to thrive with us, you are curious, willing to learn and be challenged, courageous, committed, a problem solver, and a team player who is open to new challenges every day. You should also have:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field, such as business or economics. A Master’s degree is meriting.
• 0-1 years of work experience
• Analytical skills and be solution oriented
• A genuine interest and proficiency in accounting will help you excel in this role
• Excellent knowledge of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• High proficiency in English, both written and orally. Swedish is meriting, but not a requirement.
• It is meriting if you have work experience from a consulting firm, auditing or a finance function.

Want to Make a Difference with Us?

Then you are warmly welcome to apply! Please send in your application, which consists of your CV, a short cover letter, and grade copies from university/college as soon as possible, however no later than 16 February 2025. As a first step of the recruitment process, we use capacity and personality tests to increase the objectivity of the selection process. You will receive the capacity tests by e-mail in connection with your application, and we will not process your application until the tests have been completed.

If you have any questions about the position, please don’t hesitate to contact Sandra Wahlström (sandra.wahlstrom@kpmg.se) or Tina Eriksson (tina.eriksson@kpmg.se), who are both part of the Capital Markets team. For any questions related to the recruitment process, please contact Talent Acquisition Specialist Amanda Engberg (amanda.engberg@kpmg.se).

We look forward to receiving your application!

About the company

At KPMG, we know that if we use and act on our insights together with the right people, we find opportunities everywhere. With 2000 employees in Sweden, Latvia and Lithuania, and a network of more than 265 000 experts in 143 countries across the globe, we are one of the world’s leading professional services firms.

We offer expertise within advisory, audit and tax and legal services to many of our region’s leading companies. We may support their organizational change, provide advice regarding risk and compliance, ESG reporting or development journeys, cyber threats, technology transformation, or finance strategy optimization. We also have experts within analysis, M&A and transactions, audit, tax and legal.