Deal Advisory Tax

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.

Deal Advisory Tax is a dynamic and successful area of KPMG’s Tax & Legal business.  We have an inclusive and collaborative leadership strategy and are making bold changes to our culture and how we work.  A constantly changing and high-profile field, we work in a fast-paced, challenging and rewarding environment, and can offer a broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people.

The Role

Deal Advisory Tax provides market leading services to both Financial and Corporate investors.  Whilst we have teams focused on clients in our three performance groups of Financial Services, Corporates and National Markets, we are a national and connected team, working and learning with each other.

• Financial Services:  We work with private equity, infrastructure, and real estate funds as well as institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds and pension funds.  Our clients have UK, European and Global investment strategies.
• Corporates:  We work alongside some of the most forward-thinking FTSE 100 and 250 businesses, supporting them with strategic acquisitions, carve outs, de-mergers, disposals, and joint ventures both in the UK and cross-border.
• National Markets:  We work across the UK with mid-market corporates and PE funds, looking to invest across key UK sectors to grow our local economies.

The Deal Advisory Tax team provides advisory services across the whole deal spectrum including buy-side due diligence and structuring, sell-side vendor assist and vendor due diligence, refinancing and listing support. Deal sizes can be anywhere from £10m to +£10bn – we work with a variety of clients and on a variety of deals.

We help our clients understand historical tax issues and structure transactions, with a continuous focus on maximising value throughout the investment cycle. Working collaboratively across the KPMG network, our work often involve advice on multiple countries, taxes, and work streams.

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with Partners and/ or Directors on complex transactions to deliver exceptional advice and service
• Support in the pursuit of new opportunities, working on proposals and joining pitches
• Develop and maintain client relationships alongside Deal Advisory
• Be a key KPMG point of contact for clients, legal advisers, and other KPMG teams to facilitate effective delivery
• Coach and develop colleagues, collaborate with peers and be constantly learning
• Prepare/ oversee detailed technical advice covering a range of UK and international tax issues
• Perform/ oversee detailed analysis of tax related documents/ data, highlighting key issues and articulating the commercial impact of these to the client
• Collaborate with other UK and overseas tax specialists, critically analysing and challenging their input
• Demonstrate up-to-date tax technical knowledge in respect of key UK and OECD developments
• Understand financial models from a tax perspective
• Input on Deal Advisory Tax thought leadership

The Person

C Grade

• • Qualified CTA or ACA/ CA or equivalent
  • Ambitious, enthusiastic and a keen interest in working on transactions
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Strong UK corporate tax knowledge and good awareness of other tax and accounting matters
  • Strong analytical skills, curious and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice
  • Strong project ma

The KPMG financial services 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.  

As a result of growth in our business, we have a number of roles across our FS and Asset Management tax teams,

which has a diverse client base spanning the FS sector - providing services to banks, custodians, brokers,

asset managers, alternative investors, wealth and hedge asset managers and global institutional investors such

as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds.  

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 FS firms as well as mid-size and new market entrants and supporting

their business as they rapidly grow.

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.

Deal Advisory Tax is a dynamic and successful area of KPMG’s Tax & Legal business.  We have an inclusive and collaborative leadership strategy and are making bold changes to our culture and how we work.  A constantly changing and high-profile field, we work in a fast-paced, challenging and rewarding environment, and can offer a broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people.

KPMG Corporate Finance

KPMG's Corporate Finance practice has an industry-leading reputation for delivering forward thinking and objective advice for our UK and global client base, as well as an envied track record in closing successful deals. Together, our firm's Corporate Financiers have advised on or arranged critical and sensitive equity and debt transactions for some of the world's largest corporations, financial institutions and governments. KPMG is the leading mid-market M&A adviser in the UK, Europe and globally. Revenue growth means we are in the market for recruiting top talent, who are keen to contribute to the ongoing success of the business.

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. And with prominent technology companies choosing to partner with us, you’ll find that you’re also working with the very best in market-leading tech.