The KPMG financial services corporate tax team is a fast growing part of the KPMG tax practice. We are looking for excellent candidates who are seeking a dynamic and challenging working environment within a strong supportive leadership team. 

The role is in our Core Asset Management tax team, with a particular focus on our Real Estate client base. 

Our team has a diverse client and target base spanning the Financial Services sector - providing services to traditional asset managers and financial services institutions, private equity funds, alternative investors, the real estate sector, wealth and hedge asset managers, UK pension funds and global institutional investors. 

We are looking for a candidate with a particular interest in providing clients with corporate and income tax advisory and compliance services, ideally with experience in the real estate market sector.  The set-up of the team is such that there will also be opportunities to work across all aspects of asset management tax, including Private Equity Funds Tax, Operational taxes and EU Funds. 

The successful candidate will be a self-starter with a good level of core corporate tax technical or income tax knowledge and a confident outward facing skillset willing to invest time and effort in the marketplace.

KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services. We have 174,000 outstanding professionals working together to deliver value in 155 countries worldwide. We work closely with our clients, helping them to mitigate risks and grasp opportunities. In the UK, we are one of the leading companies in the industry. 

Role and Responsibilities

• Leading UK inbound engagements including advisory and compliance related services. 
• Overseeing service delivery including drafting and signing off advice, adhering to SLAs and KPIs, reviewing casework on an as needed basis.
• Advising on complex cross-border immigration issues. 
• Supporting the team with complex issues including escalations, delivering solutions and viable options. 
• Identifying opportunities including use of technology to solve clients’ problems and improve client service delivery, co-managing the rollout of new technology to clients.
• Participating in client proposals and presentations, identifying and maximising new opportunities across various business sectors in the UK and overseas. 
• General practice management: monitoring team members’ performance, identifying the team’s training, development and staffing requirements, ensuring the team receives sufficient support and coaching.</

The KPMG Military Leavers’ Programme (MLP) aims to assist suitable candidates with their transition into a career in the thriving and fast-paced professional services industry. We are looking for talented individuals that want to join us on our journey to becoming the fastest growing, most trusted and best-connected professional services firm. The Ministry of Defence has recognised KPMG with a gold award for our work with service leavers and the Armed Forces Corporate Covenant.

KPMG's Military Recruitment Programme offers Service Leavers the opportunity to undertake a 12 month fully paid contract within the firm. Providing sufficient time to learn the role, develop skills and make a genuine impact on the business.

Roles will be based in our London and Regional offices.

Transfer Pricing Manager: 104106

Base Location: Reading, Southampton or Bristol plus network of 20 offices nationally: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations

Why Join KPMG as a Transfer Pricing Manager within our Corporate Tax Team based in the South region.

Recognised in the marketplace for our technical excellence – Transfer Pricing at KPMG is an integral part of the firm’s global community.

Our diverse team focuses on compliance and/or advisory services, providing sustainable tax advice to clients, that not only helps to deliver compliance, but also supports their wider commercial objectives.

The role will suit a manager wanting to drive their tax career. 

The team is collaborative, with individuals based across Reading, Bristol, & Southampton. We embraced hybrid and flexible working long before it became the norm! Our team has a mix of backgrounds and whatever your background we will give you the support, encouragement, and training to thrive at KPMG.

What will you be doing?

Lead Digital Experience Analyst

Role Purpose

KPMG believes that the employee digital experience is essential to the success of the firm. The successful applicant for this role will be contributing to the firm’s increasing efforts towards our team’s core purpose: “(to) Ensure that anticipation of human behaviour leads and improves user experience within the firm”.        

Reporting into the Head of Digital Experiences, the role of a Lead Digital Experience Analyst is to ensure that both the internal KPMG UK Technology function and, where relevant, other functions, deliver an efficient, effective, and consistent employee experience across all touchpoints and at all stages of relevant employee journeys.

Our model is to start with the user experience and progress towards developing solutions with technology SMEs – however digital technology is at the heart of the KPMG UK colleague experience; therefore, an understanding of KPMG UK data and technology solutions is key to Experience success.

The Lead will perform the duties of a User Experience practitioner but will also be responsible for day-to-day oversight of UX activities of other team members across the UK, Bulgaria, and India. Over time the role is expected to grow to include management, training, and growth of team members.

Key Responsibilities              

• Plan and deliver UX contributions to KPMG’s internal initiatives.

• Elicit, collect, track, and analyse feedback and data, and suggest improvements based on the insights gathered.
• Help to focus on generating value through its employee initiatives, with a clear performance and experience focus, ensuring that initiatives rapidly deliver value.
• Collaborate with Business Analysts to support development of agile user stories and formal requirements.
• Work closely with Digital Accessibility SMEs to ensure we meet our legal and ethical responsibilities for supporting colleagues with disabilities and long-term conditions.
• Supporting and challenging Project Management SMEs to ensure that digital transformation projects are effectively scoped, managed & delivered on time, to budget and within agreed KPMG risk frameworks.
• Promote the Digital Experience function in the firm.
• Contribute to the firm’s Digital Experience strategy.
• Oversight of larger UX initiatives, including work allocation, planning, and monitoring of junior UX Analysts.
• Lead Digital Experience reviews of existing or proposed solutions.

Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable experience of understanding and applying KPMG EWT Digital Experience strategy and processes
• A strong knowledge of the firm’s internal technology platforms, the resulting User Experience constraints, and strategies to maximise UX within these constraints.
• Demonstrable experience of providing oversight over other UX SMEs work on internal EWT projects.
• Maintain a high level of practical knowledge in the application of Human-Centred Design / User Experience (UX) methods including user research, service design, UI design and branding.
• A strong knowledge of KPMG’s EWT technology development processes.
• Domain experience in two or more of the following: finance & engagement management, HR, User Support, and learning technologies.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity at the beginning of projects, with ability to provide clarity of direction despite this.
• Strong knowledge of Digital Accessibility and how EWT apply this to projects.

Desirable

• Awareness of other value-driven approaches e.g., Lean Six Sigma, Agile, Design Thinking, etc.
• Strong empathy and listening skills; ability to collaborate with