KPMG's Major Projects Delivery Office

Major projects are not larger versions of business-as-usual initiatives. They are high-consequence capital investments with elevated complexity, financial risk, stakeholder scrutiny, and enterprise impact.

When successful, major projects can accelerate growth, enable transformation, and create lasting shareholder value. But when unsuccessful, they can erode capital, confidence, and reputation.

KPMG’s Major Projects Delivery Office (MPDO) helps organizations “meet the moment”, embedding executive leadership, commercial rigor, and structured governance to accelerate mobilization, increase transparency, and deliver predictable outcomes in Canada’s most critical capital programs.

Built on more than 25 years of experience supporting Canada’s largest and most complex infrastructure projects, KPMG draws on established frameworks to support organizations from early strategy through commissioning and handover.

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A defining moment for major project delivery

Canada is entering a defining era of significant capital deployment across infrastructure, industrial development, energy, natural resources and defence.

Organizations must:

Scale delivery capability quickly
Build resilient partnerships
Manage heightened stakeholder expectations
Control cost and schedule in volatile markets
Develop effective governance models
Deliver capital efficiently and predictably

Incremental improvements are not enough. This is the time for project excellence.

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Our major project delivery and capital program management services

KPMG’s Major Projects Delivery Office provides integrated support across the full project lifecycle — from strategic establishment to stabilization, recovery and transformation.

Executive program establishment and delivery

We help build and deliver major projects with clear purpose, defined accountability, aligned governance, and active executive sponsorship from day one.

Staff augmentation

We deploy experienced major project professionals across governance, commercial, risk, controls, and delivery, bringing added depth in strategic regulatory management and Indigenous consultation, to strengthen internal capability and accelerate momentum.

Strategic delivery advisory

We provide executive and board-level advisory support with structured oversight to protect business value and strengthen delivery confidence.

Major project excellence framework

Our approach is grounded in leading practice and structured around foundational pillars that drive reliable, competitive and predictable performance.

Capital and business planning
Business development and investment processes that optimize capital allocation.
- Financial foundation and risk
- Project drivers and viability
- Relative project ranking
- Capital prioritization
- Investment decision process
- Business case development
Governance and oversight
Structure and rules that establish efficient delivery and effective oversight.
- Strategic alignment
- Decisions and escalation
- Stage gate process
- Key performance indicators
- Reporting and line of sight
- Means to assure compliance
Organization and performance
Structure and behaviors that organize resources and maximize performance.
- Organization and integration
- Leadership and behaviours
- Capacity and capability
- Performance management
- Internal stakeholders’ management
- Organization change management

Commercial and financial
Commercial strategy, relationships and risk profile that support success.
- Partnership structures
- Supply chain and markets
- Contract strategy
- Procurement execution
- Relationship management
- Financing and funding
Approvals and social license
Support, license and approvals necessary to enable effective delivery.
- Rightsholders participation
- External stakeholders
- Regulatory and permitting
- Decarbonization
- Diversity and inclusion
- Communications and public relations
Delivery and risk management
Processes and procedures to guide effective project delivery and risk management.
- Cost, schedule, and controls
- Productivity management
- Risk management
- Contract and claims management
- HSEQ delivery
- Process and systems

What we deliver

KPMG’s Major Projects Delivery Office delivers integrated capital project support across governance, commercial management, risk, and execution — strengthening performance from establishment through recovery.

Operating model design
Governance framework
Role clarity and accountability
Reporting structures
Performance dashboards

Executive-level program leadership
Project controls and risk specialists
Commercial and contract professionals
Indigenous and stakeholder specialists
National and international talent mobilization

Front-end risk identification
Sanction readiness assessments
Delivery strategy validation
Commercial stress testing
Strategic regulatory management
Indigenous consultation

Systems and controls integration
Structured processes and templates
Alignment with enterprise operations
Executive-ready reporting

Procurement strategy
Market engagement
Contract risk allocation
Claims prevention

Financial structuring
Identification and arranging of non-reimbursable funding sources and tax incentives
Financing competitions and negotiations
Arranging of equity and debt financing solutions

Independent diagnostics
Governance reset
Controls strengthening
Commercial repositioning
Stakeholder confidence restoration

The impact

Through strengthened governance and disciplined execution, organizations achieve acceleration, enhanced executive transparency, and renewed confidence in delivery across major capital programs.

Our project delivery approach

We deploy a structured methodology to design and implement a fit-for-purpose major project delivery model.

Define

Understand current state and strategic objectives
Design

Develop future-state operating model and governance
Build

Establish processes, tools, and accountability
Execute

Implement with integrated change management
Embed and improve

Transition ownership and enable continuous improvement

Major project delivery requires purpose-built systems, governance, and leadership—not business-as-usual operations. Organizations that make this shift deliberately deliver with greater certainty.

KPMG helps organizations make that shift with structure, discipline, and confidence.

Why KPMG for major project delivery in Canada

We deploy a structured methodology to design and implement a fit-for-purpose major project delivery model.

Business-led perspective

Commercially and financially driven — focused on enterprise value, capital efficiency, and shareholder impact.
Executive and board-level fluency

Bring structure, clarity and confidence to executive decision-making.
Proven delivery experience

Experience across Canada and internationally in infrastructure, energy, industrial, natural resources, and public sector programs.
Structured, disciplined methodology

Clarity and rigor in project governance, risk management, and delivery systems that executives recognize.
National and global reach

Strong Canadian presence with access to global leading practices across complex capital programs.

Meet the moment with project excellence

Major projects are high consequence. The capital at stake is significant. The scrutiny is real. The expectations are uncompromising.

Success is not accidental. It is engineered through disciplined governance, structured delivery, and decisive leadership.

KPMG’s Major Projects Delivery Office brings the executive oversight, commercial rigor, and delivery discipline required to achieve reliable, competitive, and predictable results.

If you are launching, scaling, or stabilizing a major capital project, design for success from the start. Connect with KPMG to strengthen delivery and protect enterprise value from day one.

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