KPMG research shows that 2/3 of deals fail to deliver value, and amongst the top reasons are People and Culture. HR M&A was set up as part of the Integration & Separation (I&S) team in Deal Advisory, which has been growing year on year and seen by our clients as a market leader. We have worked on some of the largest and most high-profile client engagements in the deals space, including multi-billion spins, integration of global mega mergers, disposals of non-core assets for large multinationals. We have launched a market differentiating digital engagement platform for M&A as well as a campaign focused on ‘the Human Side of Deals’, and we continue to drive digital innovation.

This role is for an innovative professional at Associate Director level, who can work alongside our existing team to use their lived experience of construction and commercial acumen to solve complex problems.

You will be responsible for helping to grow and deliver our MPA business, working with our leadership team, client organisations and other KPMG teams to develop our cost intelligence capability and the value proposition in this space. This will leverage your previous experience across capex efficiency, estimating, benchmarking, cost analytics and advisory work on policy and procedure in projects and programmes across the infrastructure sectors, all supported by a team of specialists in MPA.

The MPA team in the UK are based in London, Birmingham and Manchester. This role will be based in one of these locations but will require travel to client locations throughout the UK and occasionally overseas.

At KPMG, our values define who we are and the way we do business. As a leading professional services firm, we know that our strength and capability come from our people: their different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. From our inclusive leadership strategy to our diversity and inclusion targets – we are making bold changes to who we are and what we do. Be part of it.

 

Overview

 

This exciting role is within our South Corporate Tax Advisory & Compliance team, based in our South Central or Southwest offices.

 

Our clients include UK headquartered businesses and inbound groups across a range of sectors. 

 

Our work in the tax advisory space includes supporting clients with business and fiscal change. This can include advising on new jurisdiction entry, the development of new business areas, business reorganisations, tax authority enquiries, pre/post transaction reorganisations, refinancing, cash repatriation, interest deductibility and the impact global fiscal change (e.g. BEPS Pillar 2).

 

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

 

The role

 

• Working closely with Partners, Directors, and/or Senior Managers on complex projects to deliver technically excellent advice and service

• Managing UK and cross border teams on advisory projects, liaising with specialists, overseas member firms and external advisers, critically analysing and challenging their input to deliver successful projects and expertise to our clients
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients
• Managing teams and coaching and developing junior members of staff both in respect of technical delivery and soft skills
• Managing our engagement quality and risk processes and client financials
• Being a role model for KPMG’s values

 

You will also have the opportunity to get involved in UK corporation tax compliance and reporting if that interests you.

 

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 and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice.
• Strong project management skills, including ability to work as part of a team and to show initiative to drive projects forward.
• Ability to multi-task and manage a range of clients, projects, and relationships.
• Effectively develops and coaches’ junior team members.

• Dedication to continuously develop skills and technical knowledge.

Managed Services, Tax Technical - Manager

 

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.

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Builds and develops positive constructive relationships inside and outside KPMG;
• Manages tax technical input on a mix of listed and non-listed multinational groups including involvement in the audit of tax in financial statements;
• Supporting clients with their group/statutory Tax Reporting needs;
• Provide advice to clients on GAAP conversion projects;
• Provide technical input to tax accounting project work;
• Manage the delivery of corporate tax compliance engagements and helping to lead compliance outsourcing contracts;
• Provide advice to clients on the tax and tax accounting implications of new legislation;
• Responding to client requests for ad hoc technical advice;
• Supporting on sales activities by working with more senior members of the team to generate additional work opportunities for both existing clients and targets; supporting proposals and propositions across functions, sectors and accounts;
• Coaching, career management and technical support for other team members;
• Follow KPMG best practice and policy;

 

Knowledge and Experience:

• Strong working knowledge and experience of corporate tax legislation and its application;
• Knowledge of tax accounting is an advantage but not essential
• Demonstrates curiosity and open mindedness to new ideas approaches and perspectives;
• Excellent interpersonal skills with strong oral and written communication skills;
• Communicating with impact, in a way that is open, honest, consistent and clear;
• Awareness of technology and automation to drive efficiency, risk management and value;
• Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own work. Sustains a high level of drive, shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude when coping with pressure at work;

 

Global Compliance & Transformation (our Team)

 

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 F

Tax Transformation (Data and Automation) – Assistant Manager

We are looking for talented Assistant Managers to join us in Canada Square, London (although flexibility on location will be considered) with experience in a broad range of areas including:

 

• Tax compliance, automation and reporting experience, particularly around indirect taxes, including EMEA compliance
• Familiarity with end-to-end finance processes (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Record-to-report) and their integration with tax
• Advising on appropriate tax technology to support compliance and reporting processes
• Tax technology implementation experience, including requirements gathering from a tax, IT & User Interface perspective, and creating and reviewing design documentation
• Tax transformation experience, including tax governance, process design and improvement
• Project management
• Client and engagement management

 

In addition to these key areas, other desirable but not essential skills include:

• Data, data bases, data transmission and data transformation including an understanding of structured query language (SQL)
• Analysing large volumes of data
• Designing cloud-based practical applications from a tax perspective
• Acting as a functionality translator, being the primary liaison between technology teams and tax teams

 

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Delivering tax transformation and technology projects, often as part of a wider finance transformation program
• Helping clients to design, build and deploy automation solutions which are designed for Tax
• Supporting our clients in designing systems which address tax requirements in different countries in the optimal way
• Working together with Tax Transformation and GCT colleagues as well as other teams in KPMG such as Consulting
• Helping clients develop robust global governance and control frameworks
• Develop our service offerings and service delivery models
• Establishing and maintaining strong client relationships with our clients
• Manage graduate trainees and oversee the output from offshore resource in order to deliver client projects;
• Identify opportunities to provide additional services that the client may need and liaise with subject specialists
• Coaching and technical support for other team members
• Follow KPMG best practice and policy.

 

Knowledge and Experience:

• Awareness of technology and automation to drive efficiency, risk management and value
• Experience in process, risk and controls design
• Excellent interpersonal skills with strong oral and written communication skills. Communicates with impact, in a way that is open, honest, consistent and clear;
• Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own work. Sustains a high level of drive, shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude when coping with pressure at work;
• Analyses problems, identifies core issues, investigates, evaluates and integrates information;
• Builds the reputation of KPMG through the quality of work, knowledge and experience 
• Awareness or experience of tax and accounting compliance processes (e.g. Direct/Indirect tax returns, statutory accounting).

 

Global Compliance & Transformation

 

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.

 

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