KPMG’s is looking for exceptional candidates for a Director role, with a strong experience in pricing and commercial excellence to join the team within the Pricing Centre of Excellence.

Assistant Manager, Further Education Funding

The Team

KPMG has one of the leading Education Skills and Productivity practices in the UK working across all key service lines. Our teams work extensively in the Further and Higher Education sectors on a range of significant projects for Government, Regulators and education providers.

We have exciting plans to further grow our Education Skills and Productivity business, but our success and reputation depends upon the quality and integrity of our services - and our people.  We are now seeking an Assistant Manager to join our Enterprise Risk team, specialising in the assurance and review of Further Education funding.

The Role

The role will work almost exclusively on the review, audit and investigation of further education funding and data. We work with the Department for Education (previously the Education and Skills Funding Agency) and a range of College, University and independent training providers to assess their compliance with the DfE funding rules and requirements. You will therefore demonstrate extensive experience of the DfE/ESFA funding rules and requirements and the related IT tools and systems.

We currently have an opportunity for an Assistant Manager to join our midlands business working with a wide variety of clients both within the midlands region and nationally.

The Responsibilities

• Undertaking work at clients’ premises and liaising with clients at the highest level
• Supervising and coaching junior members of staff to help them realise their full potential
• Keeping managers and partners up to date with the progress of your team
• Acting as a first choice point of contact throughout the year for your clients and managing project costs, raising fees and agreeing dates for cash collection
• Drafting key documents and presenting to clients
• Keeping up to date with KPMG's product and service offerings and identifying the sales opportunities that will help us grow our advisory work.
• To work as part of a team or run funding audits, reporting directly to the senior manager or partner.

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

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.