KPMG Australia’s consulting arm plans to send about 44,000 hours of work, the equivalent of about 20 full-time employees, to workers based in the firm’s overseas service centres this financial year as part of a push to change the way the firm delivers advisory services to clients.

At the top of the offshoring list are technical advisory areas such as the security-focused “identity and access management”, “IT external audit” and risk management. The “usage targets” for the overseas-based KPMG Delivery Network locations, seen by The Australian Financial Review, are part of a plan to have about 65 per cent its consulting work done by directly-employed advisers within the next two years.