KPMG’s UK Global Mobility team supports the talent strategy by facilitating and managing assignments all over the world. This is a key strategic role leading both the global mobility delivery but also mobility talent planning across a capability. As such you will be able to consult, challenge, and drive exceptional response, solutions, and delivery. As a manager you will support leading the team operationally as well as championing on best practice approach. You will have a consultative style and excellent organisational skills. You will demonstrate expertise in policy management and possess in depth knowledge of UK immigration and tax compliance. Key to credibility in the role is the ability to triage problems and provide commercial solutions which necessitates keeping up to date on changing UK regulatory requirements including immigration, personal tax, corporate tax but also the wider impacts of change in the UK approach such rental laws access to healthcare. The role is challenging and exceptionally diverse and you will possess and further develop a wide range of technical and professional skills.

 

Role Overview and Requirements:

Leading the Mobility agenda for one of our capabilities together with driving operational   excellence on compliance requirements.  Empowering and developing wider team knowledge, key   activities will include: Policy knowledge and involvment in Global Policy development. Consulting on best practice approach and providing solutions to complex problems. Driving the mobility strategy for a capability based on their requirements by consulting, providing pragmatic commercial solutions, providing Key MI with insights, analysis, and impact. Consulting wider business contacts on mobility strategy and supporting with more complex programme project planning. Technical excellence on the impact of all UK compliance and regulatory changes which will include but are not limited to UK immigration, UK corporate tax, UK personal tax, UK social security and extending to wider impacts on UK rental law changes, Healthcare changes and employment law changes. Account management of external and internal partner relationships, destination services, serviced accommodation etc. Inducing working closely with our procurement teams on account updates and invoice management Responsible for ongoing management information including pipeline reporting, adhoc reports, compliance reports, shadow payroll etc. Build a global network of colleague contacts around the world with the aim of enhancing the Global Mobility experience and UK corridor support. Compliance monitoring in line with UK requirements Maintain up-to-date assignment comms, process flows and other collateral. Technical Experience and Skills: Able to demonstrate the ability to operate at manager level within KPMG, collaboration skills, consultative skills and ability to triage problems and find solutions. A background and able to demonstrate expertise in UK compliance and regulatory changes which will include but are not limited to UK immigration, UK corporate tax, UK personal tax, UK social security and extending to wider impacts on UK rental law changes, healthcare changes and employment law changes. Able to demonstrate a track record of working wit

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Overview

 

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax, Pensions & Legal, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges. As a firm we help our clients navigate their biggest issues and opportunities. We aim to be universally recognised as a great place for great people to do their best work – a firm known for our collaborative and inclusive culture. And we will take pride in driving lasting, positive change in society. 

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.

 

We work as a hybrid team where we get together in the office or at client sites at least three times a week to collaborate and learn together, with flexibility over how you spend the rest of your time. 

 

The role

An exciting opportunity for a motivated individual to join our Scotland Corporate Tax Advisory & Compliance team as a Manager, based in our Edinburgh, Glasgow or Aberdeen office.  Our client base and the services we provide are varied, so you've got a great opportunity to help shape how you spend your time.  Key aspects of the role will involve:

 

• Being responsible for delivery of the corporation tax compliance work on a portfolio of clients and working with Senior Managers, Directors and Partners on our larger client accounts
• Being involved in tax advisory projects including advice closely linked to the compliance work such as on controlled foreign companies and the corporate interest restriction, as well as assisting on ad hoc advisory projects
• Being responsible for the delivery of tax accounting work and working with Senior Managers and Directors on tax reporting work
• Ensuring our clients are kept up to date with emerging corporate and wider tax developments impacting their business
• Supervising the work of junior members of staff and providing coaching to support their development
• Being responsible for and reporting to Directors and Partners on client account management, including complying with appropriate quality and risk management procedures and financial management
• Support the leadership with business development opportunities

 

The role would involve a mixture of tax compliance, reporting and advisory work and there would be flexibility around the weighting of time to these different components of the role based on your experience and areas of interest.

 

The person

 

• Qualified CTA or ACA / CA or equivalent

• UK corporation tax experience
• Sustains a high level of energy, shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude that translates across the team
• Displays an inclusive, collaborative approach and operates in a respectful manner with colleagues, clients, and the wider community
• Brings insight and effectively applies knowledge to business and client problems
• Communicates with impact, in a way that is open, honest, consistent and clear

• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong analytical skills, curious

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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. More information about our team is at the end of this job description.

 

The Tax Technical team is a critical enabler to all tax activities within GCT and provides expertise into KPMG’s complex tax audits.  Audit quality is of paramount importance and to do this efficiently, we maintain a dedicated and enthusiastic team of tax specialists.  We are also the engine room of the tax reporting, compliance, governance and low-level advisory work undertaken by the wider GCT team – servicing large domestic compliance clients as well as our Global Compliance clients.

Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Platform Architect (Advisory) – Senior Manager – National Security

Important - due to the nature of the work, it is essential for applicants to hold current 'National Security Vetting’ aligned to a UK National Security organisation.

KPMG Overview
KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 17,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.
With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.
The Team

KPMG’s Cloud practice is a rapidly growing team of consultants that helps clients transform the way they deliver technology services to business stakeholders. We help the UK’s largest and most complex organisations to:

• Develop strategies for the adoption and exploitation of cloud in conjunction with modernised on premises capabilities
• Build the operating models, architectures and capabilities to deliver value from Cloud and Hybrid platforms
• Help clients operate their cloud or hybrid estates effectively and cost-efficiently over the long term.

 

We need Hybrid Platform Architects that are comfortable providing advice to C-suite leaders and senior client technologists across our whole client base but, in particular, this role will be aligned to our well-established Defence Consulting team.

 

National Security
The National Security sector is one of KPMG’s key priority sectors, designated for high growth over the next three years. It