The KPMG UK Fintech team is a significant and growing business looking after more than 140 clients. The Fintech team incorporates KPMG’s digital assets business where the firm supports a growing number of UK and International crypto businesses.  Indirect tax is a significant proportion of this Fintech business, and we are looking for an experienced VAT Senior Manager to work alongside the VAT partner who not only leads the Fintech VAT practice, but also leads the wider KPMG Fintech team across the UK.  

This exciting role is within our International and Complex tax group based in the London office, focussing on large inbound and outbound multinational businesses. You’ll join a high performing team advising some of the largest and most complex organisations in the world.

We are looking for a talented individual at Senior Manager level to support our continued rapid growth. The successful candidate will thrive in a dynamic and challenging working environment, supported by a strong and ambitious leadership team.

Manager - People in M&A - Deal Execution

Base Location: Manchester, London or Birmingham 

Why Join KPMG as a Manager - People in M&A (Deal Execution)?

The Deal Execution team is part of KPMG’s rapidly expanding Strategy Group, which delivers value for clients by challenging conventional thinking, bringing deep industry and functional insights and executing with investor-grade rigour. We are a diverse team of over 105 practitioners, working collaboratively with and orchestrating KPMG’s broad set of capabilities within our Advisory business, and are focused on continually enhancing value for clients across the deal and economic cycle. Our teams comprise of specialists capable of helping clients right through from conceptual thinking of buying a business to turning their business around in times of difficulty.

The People in M&A Centre of Excellence deals with all aspects of the employee journey in M&A, as well as leveraging our experience to enact transformational change outside of a deal context. From early-stage strategy development and organisational design for carve-outs, to synergy cases and cost benefits, employee experience and corporate culture, employee transfer, through to the conception, development and management of effective transformational solutions to help an organisation achieve its ambitions and objectives. We work together to develop solutions to the issues our clients may face and understand the financial benefits or risks that may be present from a people perspective. Above all, we are driven by a passion to help our clients execute transactions and transformational change efficiently, maximising value through people and ensuring a smooth people transition.

What will you be doing?

In this role, you will work on and lead projects by working closely alongside senior members of the team, who will provide guidance and insight into the deal environment, enabling you to build your deals knowledge and further develop your people, OD, strategy and HR skills. You will also leverage your change and consulting skillset to deliver top-tier transformational change for clients outside of a deal context.

At KPMG we want to build and maintain positive and constructive relationships individually amongst our people, and collectively between the firm and our people. We believe that a positive climate in the workplace enables greater employee engagement and commitment, with a positive impact both on employee well-being and business outcomes.

Now is a great time to join us and be part of our new expert ER Function firmly anchored around our firm-wide values. The team will be responsible for end-to-end case management and for coaching / upskilling the business to more effectively address ER matters in the business line

We are introducing a best practice tiered approach to service delivery, including self-service for generic questions and effective triaging of incoming concerns promoting routes to resolution outside of formal cases. We have a separate team within the ER function responsible for formal investigations

By firmly anchoring Employee Relations expertise in the ER function, we are professionalising the service and creating tangible and rewarding career opportunities for ER professionals

We are committed to continuous improvement so that we can evolve our Employee Relations (ER) services and support mechanisms to be the best they can be, encouraging open communication, ensuring our colleagues can thrive both professionally and personally and building trust within our organisation.