Indirect Tax Manager

Base Location: London plus network of 20 offices nationally: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations

Why Join KPMG as an Indirect Tax Manager based in the London

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax, 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.

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.

KPMG has one of the leading Indirect Tax practices in the UK. We work as a national practice providing advice and support in all aspects of Indirect Tax (VAT, Customs Duty, Green taxes) to a broad range of business sectors including large multi-nationals, household name retailers and public sector organisations.

The Indirect Tax practice is a fast-growing and dynamic business, currently with 21 partners and approximately 200 professional staff located across the UK. We work to support our portfolio of clients with a variety of Indirect tax issues. Within the team we have specialists in sectors such as Retail, Supply Chain, International Trade, alongside our Public Sector specialisms. We work closely with our colleagues in Trade & Customs, Corporate and Employment tax to deliver value to KPMG’s clients. The role in question is with the Indirect tax team.

What will you be doing?

• Providing high quality Indirect Tax advisory services on a broad range of indirect tax issues (VAT) to a range of corporate clients;
• Maintaining, developing and managing KPMG’s strong relationships with clients;
• Developing innovative solutions and opportunities for our clients;
• Assisting in the implementation of business development initiatives;
• Providing sales support, developing, building and maintaining key B2B and B2C client relationships
• Developing more junior members of the team from both a technical and commercial perspective;
• Working closely with senior managers, directors and partners who will provide you with the support and opportunities to assist you in realising your full potential.

What will you need to do it?

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who would like to be part of a successful and growing team. You should be someone who:

• Takes personal responsibility and accountability for their work;
• Is driven and committed;
• Is ambitious and motivated to grow personally;
• Seeks out feedback and development opportunities; Identifies and pursues business opportunities;
• Sustains a high level of drive, shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude when coping with pressure at work
• Continuously learns from experiences. Seeks out feedback and development opportunities
• Gives clear directions, positive and constructive feedback. Coaches less experienced staff
• Works in a cooperative, respectful manner with colleagues, clients and the wider community
• Analyses problems, identifies core issues, investigates, evaluates and integrates informati

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 FTSE listed groups, from public sector to real estate to financial services. The role involves working on clients of all sizes and across a wide range of sectors. 

We are seeking a Quantexa Tech Lead to join our growing team and play a key role in the delivery of data-driven solutions using the Quantexa platform. The ideal candidate will be Quantexa certified, have hands-on experience delivering end-to-end implementations, and bring strong technical leadership capabilities.

This role will involve direct engagement with client stakeholders, technical teams, and business SMEs to ensure successful solution delivery, with a particular focus on Quantexa architecture, design, and integration.

Job Title:  Manager – Legal Business Services

Role Overview
As a Manager in KPMG’s Legal Business Services (LBS) team, you will lead client delivery across legal transformation projects, driving innovation in contract management, legal technology, and operating model design. You will play a pivotal role in helping clients embed legal into business processes, harnessing AI and automation, and redesigning their legal supply chains.

This is a client-facing leadership role, with responsibility for scoping, designing, and delivering engagements, as well as developing our propositions and helping to grow the LBS business.

What you will do

• Lead client engagements, from diagnostics to delivery, applying our methodologies.
• Design target legal operating models and implement transformation roadmaps
• Oversee legal technology implementation projects, ensuring effective integration into enterprise systems (e.g. CLM, AI, Matter and Spend Management)
• Drive managed services design and transition, enabling scalable delivery of contracting and legal processes.
• Facilitate client workshops to capture requirements and prioritise initiatives by value, risk, and feasibility.
• Contribute to business development through proposals, thought leadership, and pre-sales support.

Leadership & Management

• Manage multi-disciplinary engagement teams, ensuring high-quality delivery and adherence to KPMG standards.
• Mentor and coach junior team members, contributing to their development and the growth of the practice.
• Collaborate across KPMG service lines and global teams to deliver integrated, cross-functional solutions.

Skills & Experience

• Strong consulting or professional services experience, ideally with exposure to legal, contracting, or compliance.
• Proven experience in leading delivery of transformation projects (e.g. CLM, operating model, process redesign).
• Strong understanding of project management methodologies (Agile and traditional).
• Demonstrated ability to engage senior stakeholders and build lasting client relationships.
• Experience with legal technology platforms (e.g. Ironclad, CPAI, DocuSign CLM, iCertis, SirionLabs, Wolters Kluwer, Harvey) is desirable.

At KPMG, we believe in the importance of creating consistently brilliant customer and employee experiences. The way we do that is by combining our unique insights with a talented team of experience designers alongside the transformation capability to make it real.