The KPMG real estate 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.  

For the right candidates, there are huge opportunities to be part of an expanding business and to progress

quickly as the team grows. The work is interesting and diverse, getting involved with cutting edge developments

and working with some of the best-known real estate and infrastructure firms as well as mid-size and new market

entrants and supporting their business as they rapidly grow.

The team is diverse and collaborative, with individuals based across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol

and Edinburgh, we embraced hybrid and flexible working long before it became the norm!

Our team has a mix of backgrounds, people who have spent their entire career in professional services, or those

with tax, legal, accounting, and regulatory backgrounds as well as a number of people who have joined from

industry and bring real practical experience to the way we can help clients. Whatever your background we will

give you the support, encouragement, and training to thrive at KPMG.

Successful candidates will have the opportunity to specialise in real estate taxes.

We would be happy to have an informal chat with you to discuss opportunities in more detail.

 
The Responsibilities: The role involves a mixture of both compliance and advisory responsibilities, with specific duties including:

• Developing and maintaining a high level of technical knowledge across real estate taxes and related

Areas including REITs.

• Supporting the management of client relationships and projects and becoming a focal point of contact

for clients within real estate taxes.

• Understanding our client's business and working with teams across KPMG to identify areas for the

provision of real estate tax and other services.

• Developing and advising on cutting edge client propositions.
• Being involved in business development and proposal activity.
• Collaborating with KPMG teams across the UK and globally to provide the highest quality real estate

tax support to our clients.

• Participating in the development of new client propositions, which will include working with technology

teams to develop new solutions, taking these to market and building the delivery model to ensure

the highest quality services are provided.

• Being an advocate for KPMG and the real estate tax team and helping us grow the business

through the delivery of relevant and high-quality services to our clients.

The Person:  

The successful candidates are likely to have some or all of the following skills:

• Evidence of deep technical ability relating to tax or financial services – e.g., this might be a

qualification in tax, audit, finance, law, regulation, or significant practical experience gained in an

industry role.

• Practical experience of dealing with real estate taxes within a Financial Services context –

candidates with industry or professional services experience.

• An understanding of financial markets, participants, investors (e.g., property rental businesses,

hotels, institutional.

investors, custodians, asset managers, private equity etc) and products.

• Good knowledge of Corporation Tax compliance, CIR, Anti-hybrids, REITs., QIPS.
• Excellent project management, delegation/coaching and client facing delivery skills.
• Fam

The Role:

KPMG Law is seeking an experienced mid level corporate lawyer to join its growing Northern team, based in Manchester.

The successful candidate will have broad corporate experience across M&A, equity investments, and corporate reorganisations.

The role will involve:

• providing corporate legal advice on a broad range of client solutions spanning establishing corporate structuring and reorganisations, M&A, equity investments, joint ventures and equity incentive arrangements, in each case, on a domestic and cross border basis
• building relationships with other KPMG teams and KPMG clients to develop and provide multi-disciplinary solutions
• leading teams on multi-disciplinary projects in the UK and internationally
• project managing and driving projects to conclusion
• training and mentoring more junior team members

What KPMG Law is looking for from its lawyers

• an entrepreneurial self-starter who is excited by the opportunity to provide legal services in a different environment and manner to a traditional commercial law firm as part of fully integrated multi-disciplinary practice
• commercially minded and keen to become a more rounded business adviser
• a driven and proactive team player who enjoys working with people from different backgrounds and disciplines
• keen to assist with the development of junior team members
• a relationship builder who can spot and develop new opportunities and client relationships both within the KPMG network and externally
• high level of technical knowledge of UK corporate and contract law
• intellectually curious, open-minded and analytical people, with an eye for detail and pride in their work

Experience Required

It is expected that the successful applicant will be an English-qualified solicitor with solid experience, gained in the UK at a reputable firm (but applicants with other suitable experience will also be considered).

• Strong academic, technical, and personal skills are essential.
• Must be able to demonstrate his/her/their experience on transactions, and ability to supervise and develop more junior members of the team. Strong project management skills are a must.
• Be able to demonstrate good experience of coordinating the provision of advice and the production of complex and interrelated legal agreements and documentation by advisers in multiple jurisdictions. While consulting appropriately on difficult issues, he/she/they must be able to deliver robust and appropriate legal advice and exercise sound judgement.
• Significant experience of working with demanding clients across a wide spectrum of scale and sectors and be expert at service delivery.
• He/she/they must be able to demonstrate sound client relationship and business development skills, and a desire to develop these skills further.

The successful applicant will be expected to take responsibility for servicing and continuing to build the team. He/she/they will help promote the team’s work through participating in team and firm events and giving internal and external presentations.

Powered Enterprise is KPMG’s world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation approach for cloud-based solutions driven by a pre-defined back-office function based on leading practices and KPMG’s six-layer Target Operating Model. The target operating model comprises of service delivery model, people, process, technology, data & insight and governance & controls. This solution combines the breadth and scale of KPMG’s leading practice, capabilities and insight into what makes a world class corporate services function with the latest in ERP technology provided by the leading SaaS ERP vendors such as Oracle.

The Powered Apps teams are communities of technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver SaaS ERP and EPM based transformation programmes based on KPMG Powered Enterprise. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g. Planning, Finance, Procurement), coupled with their expertise in the cloud applications (e.g. Oracle, Workday, Coupa) to lead and deliver client programmes, to support pre-sales activities and to develop improvement and extensions to the Powered Enterprise model. KPMG are growing their Powered Apps team to meet an ever-increasing demand for our market leading services and are seeking IT management consultants with relevant expertise and experience.

Service Delivery Security Manager

Team

The Service Delivery Security Manager role is in the KPMG UK Information Security function and reports directly to the Security Production Assurance & Compliance Lead.  This role is critical in the provision and delivery of secure, innovative, technology-enabled services and solutions for KPMG and our clients.  The role is vital to KPMG’s ability to demonstrate that we are delivering ‘secure by design’ services and solutions such that our business stakeholders, our clients and our regulators trust KPMG.

Role

The primary purpose of the role is to enable harmonious delivery of Security Services, by ensuring strong collaboration with the external Service Providers and entire range of KPMG business functions.  There are 3 main areas of focus:

• Manage the security services relationship to protect the delivery of the end to service services that involve all KPMG UK Technology services, or third-party suppliers.
• Provide governance for infrastructure security services
• Provide an overview of the complete set of services provided by all KPMG UK Technology services, or third-party suppliers and troubleshoot any issues and escalate as appropriate.

Key responsibilities are:

• Work closely with the Service Owners who are accountable for the end-to-end services, understand their roadmap for the service and the day-to-day operational requirements

• Maintain and lead the process to manage the Governance of these services
• Ensure firm standards and guidelines are followed, and contractual or operational commitments are delivered
• Review and govern the Service Provider Quality, Improvement Plans, Issues and Operational Risks, engaging the Security Production Assurance & Compliance Lead as required
• Raise and build consensus around issues or escalations and enable timely resolution.
• Govern Service Provider Knowledge Management, Knowledge Transfer, Reporting, Documentation and other engagement practices to ensure ongoing operational excellence
• Review Service Provider capacity plan to ensure it has enough capacity to meet the required demand and is in line with the Service Owner’s roadmaps
• Consolidate and provide reports on the delivery of Security services and initiatives across the relevant KPMG capabilities
• Ensure any planned changes across Technology or Service Provider are co-ordinated to ensure there is minimum disruption to Information Security services.
• Communicate major changes or enhancements in Information Security to Service Provider/ Business function and vice-versa
• Act as a single point of contact for general queries or issues flowing to and from the Security Function to the delivery teams
• Work closely with the Service Delivery Managers and Service Owners to ensure everyone has a clear view of the remediations and expectations
• Work closely with the Security Production Assurance & Compliance Lead to implement the operational security activities, processes and standards as determined by them.
• Build long-term stakeholder relationships including negotiating service levels, and defining project scope.
• Monitor, review and drive compliance to security policies, guideline and standards (as defined by KPMG) using compliance reports supplied by the Supplier and internal teams. You will escalate issues to the Security Production Assurance & Compliance Lead where necessary
• Use your experience to propose changes to existing policies and procedures based on feedback from Internal and Supplier Service Operations teams to Security Production Assurance & Compliance Lead to drive operating efficiency and compliance
• You will support incident and problem management teams in prioritisation o