Tax Manager - Japan Practice - Global Mobility Services: 104663

Base Location: London with a network of 20 offices nationally: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations

Why Join KPMG as a Tax manager – Japan Practice within our Global Mobility Services Team

We are looking for a GMS Manager to work in the Japan Practice in Tax, Global Mobility Services team working on a mixed portfolio of clients. 

KPMG's Global Mobility Services (GMS) practice is a diverse and fast-growing area of our Tax business. We serve the biggest names in the Financial Services community, with high-profile engagements touching every corner of the world.

Our GMS engagement teams are “360-degree service oriented”, with tax technical, team leadership, and client-facing responsibilities as part of each successful manager’s remit. 

You’ll advise on complex people challenges, including future of work trends such as cross-border working, remote working and virtual assignments. Working alongside multi-disciplinary experts, such as tax, technology, immigration, and mobility administration services and using some of the best technology solutions in the market, you’ll have the support and tools to create opportunities for our clients – and for your career.  
 

What will you be doing?

At KPMG we have re-imagined careers in Global Compliance & Transformation (GCT). Our clients leverage KPMG’s compliance and transformation expertise and technology to drive better visibility, greater efficiency and improved risk management across their organisation.  Ultimately we prepare groups for the future of digital compliance helping them develop a sustainable, technology- enabled and holistic future state operating model.

We are winning new clients and are rapidly growing our team as a result of these investments and successes. As part of an established KPMG network of expert teams and delivery centres, you will have a fantastic opportunity to experience the global nature of these services. Delivery is underpinned by our innovative KPMG Digital Gateway platform. This is an exciting time to be part of our GCT team at KPMG where reimagining tax is a strategic priority for our UK and Global business.  We have a diverse client base, from mid-market to FTSE listed groups, from public sector to real estate to financial services. The role involves working on clients of all sizes and across a wide range of sectors. 

KPMG has one of the leading Indirect Tax practices in the UK. We work as a national practice providing advice and support in all aspects of Indirect Tax (VAT, Customs Duty, Green taxes) to a broad range of business sectors including large multi-nationals, household name retailers, public sector organisations and Financial Services.  The Indirect Tax practice is a fast-growing and dynamic business, currently with approximately 200 professional staff located across the UK.  We work to support our portfolio of clients with a variety of Indirect tax issues. 

In order to support our plans for our North of England Indirect Tax team, we are looking to recruit a motivated individual with a commercial edge who is seeking a real challenge, at Director level across our Indirect Tax business, to build on our successes to date and help us achieve our growth targets.

Joining KPMG means joining a talented team of exceptional colleagues who bring innovative thoughts and a natural curiosity to the work they do each day. No one type of person succeeds at KPMG; a diverse business requires diverse personalities, characters and perspectives. There really is a place for you here.

At KPMG we have re-imagined careers in Global Compliance & Transformation (GCT). A key focus for KPMG’s GCT team is to help multinational groups and financial services clients manage their global tax compliance, reporting and statutory accounting obligations, through outsourcing, co-sourcing, transformation and technology. 

Our clients leverage KPMG’s compliance and transformation expertise and technology to drive better visibility, greater efficiency and improved risk management across their organisation.  Ultimately we prepare groups for the future of digital compliance helping them develop a sustainable, technology- enabled and holistic future state operating model.  

Transfer Pricing

Grade: C

Job Title: Transfer Pricing Manager specialising in Transfer Pricing Audit

Recognised in the marketplace for our technical excellence, Transfer Pricing at KPMG is an integral part of the firm’s global community. Our firm is also renowned for its technical excellence in Audit, delivering high‑quality, rigorous audit work underpinned by strong analytical capability and professional scepticism. KPMG’s specialist Transfer Pricing Audit team sits within the firm’s national transfer pricing team and audits the transfer pricing arrangements of a range of businesses to identify transfer pricing risks.

Our team works on a broad range of audits from FTSE100 Group reporting engagements to UK statutory audits.

The KPMG specialist audit team have high levels of technical expertise and team members below partner and director work closely with the partners and directors in the team. There is extensive on the job coaching as well as more regular technical training sessions. The nature of the work provides an ideal environment for team members to rapidly increase their technical skills seeing a wide variety of audits. 

The team is a virtual team and there is the ability to work from any location.

The Responsibilities/Job Description

This role involves working on a range of audits to test whether the tax on the transfer pricing arrangements materially complies with the arm’s length principle as set out in the UK Transfer Pricing legislation.

Day to day, the work involves:

• Managing various transfer pricing audits and leading the day-to-day transfer pricing audit processes
• Coordinating with KPMG's Audit and Tax Audit teams on a range of audits
• Acting as the main point of contact for audit entity management teams
• Speaking to Audit Entities to obtain the facts
• Coaching and developing junior team members which will also include delivering training sessions and providing on-the-job coaching on a regular basis
• Ensuring timely reporting to senior management
• Actively contributing to sharing transfer pricing audit knowledge to the transfer pricing advisory team

The Person

We are looking for candidates with the following skills/experience:

• Either a CTA, CA, ACA, ACCA or attained a Bachelors or Masters degree in economics, finance, law, accounting or equivalent qualification
• Transfer pricing experience: preferably including experience of transfer pricing audits, policy setting, tax authority enquiries/Advance Pricing Agreements, operational transfer pricing, financing transfer pricing, project management and managing junior team members; or significant audit experience  
• Sound judgement and an enquiring mind, including the ability to objectively assess and challenge management’s assumptions and exercise professional scepticism
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• High level of drive and enthusiasm with a positive attitude
• Keen ability and willingness to keep up to date technically and develop the technical ability of the team below you
• Ability to work autonomously and to take initiative as appropriate
• Highly organised with excellent communication and project management skills