The KDN Office of the General Counsel (OGC) is responsible for managing the organisation's global legal and regulatory risk. The OGC is expanding by seeking an experienced commercial lawyer focused on technology, data privacy, data protection and AI. The successful candidate will deliver practical and business-focused legal advice to our business and corporate services partners and work collaboratively with other KPMG network firms worldwide.

Technology Implementation Assistant Manager

Tax Technology & Innovation are a team of 300+ technologists providing technology enablement services and solutions across the Tax and Law business. This business has 2500+ tax & legal professionals covering multiple disciplines. 

The team is made up of Technology Consultants, Business Analysts, Product Owners, Data Architects & Engineers, Multi-disciplinary Engineering teams and IT Service delivery professionals working on a large portfolio of systems used to improve productivity and solve key business problems across Tax & Legal.

A key focus is working with KPMG’s Global Compliance & Transformation (‘GCT’) team to grow our managed service business, helping multinational groups manage and transform their global tax and accounting compliance and reporting requirement across multiple operating regions. 

Leveraging award-winning technology, we enable our clients to utilise KPMG’s compliance and transformation expertise to drive better visibility, greater efficiency and improved risk management across their organisation and responsibilities. We are winning new clients and are growing our technology implementation team as a result of these successes.

Job Title/Req Number:  R&D Tax Manager - Software Technology

Base Location: London

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Why Join KPMG as a Tax Manager

KPMG’s national Incentives, Reliefs & Innovations team is made up of tax, engineering, science, and technology specialists delivering expert advice to a broad range of clients across almost every industry sector. As one of the largest teams in the industry, our continued investment in innovation advisory means that we seek engineers and scientist to join us on the next exciting phase of our growth.

Our team works with clients from owner managed business, to large multinational organisation, and we are looking for a Manager with a strong scientific/ engineering background to assist clients across a suite of innovation advisory services including R&D tax credits, Patent Box, R&D Allowances, Grants and Innovation Advisory services.

What will you be doing?

• Manage and work with engagement teams to develop claim methodologies and prepare R&D tax relief claims for submission to HMRC. Taking responsibility and accountability for your own, and your team’s work.
• Lead meetings with the senior IT technical and financial client stakeholders; and provide expert advice in relation to innovation advisory services (R&D, Patent Box, Grant Applications). Help to establish and maintain strong client relationships with both existing and new clients.

We are seeking a proactive and customer-focused IT Service Operations Lead to oversee and enhance the End User Experience within our organization. This critical role is responsible for managing and optimizing IT services that directly impact employee productivity and satisfaction, including Onsite Support, Service Desk Operations, IT Tech Bars, New Joiner Support, Meeting Room technology, printing services, WiFi, and office network performance.

The role requires strong collaboration with end users, ensuring exceptional service delivery and experience outcomes. Utilizing tools such as the KPMG Nexthink Digital Experience Monitoring platform, the successful candidate will analyse user experience data, identify trends, and implement service improvements to meet the high standards of the professional services sector.

Job Title/Req Number: FS Forensic FDA (Technology) – Assistant Manager

Base Location: London / Regions plus network of 20 offices nationally: KPMG Office Locations

Summary of Role Purpose:

KPMG’s FS Forensic Financial Services practice is a key contributor to the Firm’s strategic growth initiatives. We have achieved rapid year-on-year growth since the team’s inception and have set ourselves ambitious targets to maintain the momentum. We possess a strong pipeline of work for the year ahead and continue to develop innovative market-leading solutions for our clients. We now need an experienced and dependable Assistant Manager to assist in converting the existing pipeline, expand it with our current offerings and to develop our technology propositions.

Assistant Managers are responsible for managing the delivery of a range of financial crime projects. The team assists clients to assess, assure, review, test, and improve their financial crime systems whilst using innovative Data Analytics tools and approaches. They will be expected to collaborate across FS Consulting to deliver the best solutions for our clients.

An Assistant Manager who is a Technology SME is required to utilise knowledge and expertise to support the delivery of a range of financial crime projects with a particular focus on financial crime review, audit, assurance, and advisory-oriented engagements. Projects will be varied in nature and will include work to help clients design their approach to assurance as well as executing framework-wide or thematic reviews.

What will you be doing?

• Combine technical financial crime knowledge (across transaction and fraud monitoring, transaction and customer screening, and customer due diligence) and data analytics knowledge to deliver projects to a high standard.
• Leverage your technical knowledge, experience, and contacts to contribute to the development of proposals and in generating new business for the firm.
• Manage and mentor Technology Analysts from diverse backgrounds during projects.
• Maintain awareness of regulatory risk/landscape and use this awareness to flag issues of importance to the operation.
• Develop financial crime policies and procedures.
• Contribute to or develop proposals and propositions for internal or external clients.

What will you need to do it?

• Tenacious problem-solving attitude: the ability to identify and fix issues before they become critical.
• Financial Crime Knowledge: Using your existing Financial Crime knowledge and experience to design and carry out end-to-end testing of Financial crime systems. These systems can include screening, transaction monitoring, customer due diligence, and fraud detection.
• Risk Management: Experience in assisting with scoping, adherence to risk and management standards, internal financial management, managing delivery risk, production, and review of deliverables.
• Data: Ensuring teams can balance and manage data analysis of large volumes of data, structured and unstructured, utilising a wide range of database management systems, reporting systems, and visualisation software.
• Project Management and Delivery: Balancing quality of service, project planning, and costs when delivering a project.
• Business Development: Participating in busi