Brad Miller to replace Paul Howes as KPMG’s consulting boss

Big four professional services firm KPMG has turned to chief financial officer Brad Miller as its next head of consulting for Australia. He replaces Tenet-bound chief executive-appointee Paul Howes.

Brad Miller has been with KPMG out of Melbourne for the past decade, with earlier stints at PPB Advisory division Litmus, Capgemini, and PwC and Accenture in the US. He was appointed chief financial officer at the end of last year.

Miller will take over from Paul Howes next month, the latter who was poached as incoming chief executive of Tenet, which was recently rebranded from Sayers, after leading KPMG’s consulting division during a period of upheaval since mid-2023.

Described by CEO Andrew Yates as an exciting new chapter for KPMG’s consulting business, Miller said he felt humbled to be selected for the role at such a pivotal time for the practice; “I’m passionate about the opportunity to work alongside our talented team to build a culture of shared success, one where we can be unstoppable if we empower each other and our clients to thrive.”

Miller brings three decades of advisory experience to his new role, having kicked off his career with Accenture in Atlanta with a focus on logistics and supply chain. From there, he spent more than half a decade with PwC, before migrating to Melbourne as a director of business development for Capgemini, where he spent a further five years prior to switching to Litmus as managing partner.

Litmus later merged with restructuring specialist PPB Advisory in 2016 (which in turn sold to PwC two years later), with Miller at the time moving on to KPMG, originally joining as an advisory partner in the firm’s middle-market ‘enterprise’ division in its early days and helping to build the wider practice into what is today a $430 million-plus business and KPMG’s fastest-growing line.

Having only taken over as CFO at the beginning of this year, Miller will now turn his business improvement acumen inward in an effort to steady the firm’s once $915 million consulting practice, which has shrunk by 18 percent and 14 percent over the past two consecutive years amid widespread market disruption. He inherits a major restructuring program already underway.

“Brad has a proven track record of empowering others, and delivering bold, strategic outcomes, making him the right person to drive the next phase of consulting at KPMG,” Yates told the AFR, with the business and finance publication reporting that Miller’s first priority upon assuming the role would be to conduct a national listening tour “to determine what is and isn’t working.”