The Team

We are currently recruiting Tax Assistant Managers to join our successful Family Office & Private Client team based in the South (Bristol/Reading).

As a national practice our FO&PC team consists of approximately 150 team members across the UK, led by 9 Partners and 15 Directors.

We work with a variety of high net worth individuals – from stakeholders in privately owned and entrepreneurial businesses, executives of multi-national firms, landed estates and senior members of private equity firms; who may be tax resident and/or domiciled in a range of jurisdictions. We also specialise in providing advice to Trusts and Estates, and Partnerships. 

If you are a highly motivated qualified tax adviser/ accountant (ATT, CTA or ACA/ACCA) with experience of working in personal tax, then we’d love to hear from you.

Full time tax compliance senior manager, working with staff and external tax return preparers in many countries responsible for timely accurate tax reporting.  Reports to London based tax director. Hybrid role - 2 days a week in London office.

The KPMG real estate 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.  

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 real estate and infrastructure firms as well as mid-size and new market

entrants and supporting their business as they rapidly grow.

The team is diverse and collaborative, with individuals based across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol

and Edinburgh, we embraced hybrid and flexible working long before it became the norm!

Our team has a mix of backgrounds, people who have spent their entire career in professional services, or those

with tax, legal, accounting, and regulatory backgrounds as well as a number of people who have joined from

industry and bring real practical experience to the way we can help clients. Whatever your background we will

give you the support, encouragement, and training to thrive at KPMG.

Successful candidates will have the opportunity to specialise in real estate taxes.

We would be happy to have an informal chat with you to discuss opportunities in more detail.

 
The Responsibilities: The role involves a mixture of both compliance and advisory responsibilities, with specific duties including:

• Developing and maintaining a high level of technical knowledge across real estate taxes and related

Areas including REITs.

• Supporting the management of client relationships and projects and becoming a focal point of contact

for clients within real estate taxes.

• Understanding our client's business and working with teams across KPMG to identify areas for the

provision of real estate tax and other services.

• Developing and advising on cutting edge client propositions.
• Being involved in business development and proposal activity.
• Collaborating with KPMG teams across the UK and globally to provide the highest quality real estate

tax support to our clients.

• Participating in the development of new client propositions, which will include working with technology

teams to develop new solutions, taking these to market and building the delivery model to ensure

the highest quality services are provided.

• Being an advocate for KPMG and the real estate tax team and helping us grow the business

through the delivery of relevant and high-quality services to our clients.

The Person:  

The successful candidates are likely to have some or all of the following skills:

• Evidence of deep technical ability relating to tax or financial services – e.g., this might be a

qualification in tax, audit, finance, law, regulation, or significant practical experience gained in an

industry role.

• Practical experience of dealing with real estate taxes within a Financial Services context –

candidates with industry or professional services experience.

• An understanding of financial markets, participants, investors (e.g., property rental businesses,

hotels, institutional.

investors, custodians, asset managers, private equity etc) and products.

• Good knowledge of Corporation Tax compliance, CIR, Anti-hybrids, REITs., QIPS.
• Excellent project management, delegation/coaching and client facing delivery skills.
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Job Title: Assistant Manager - Legal Managed Services

KPMG’s Legal Operations and Transformation Services (LOTS) team supports clients in optimising their legal function to achieve operational excellence.  

There are 2 core service offerings within LOTS: a powered contracting practice, based on Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) technology, and a legal operating model transformation service.  Across LOTS, we are winning new clients and are growing our team as a result of these successes and as a new role, it is an exciting time for a candidate to come in, make a big impact on the function and shape the role.

We are looking for talented Assistant Managers to join us in growing the legal operating model transformation practice within LOTS, through managing and developing external client relationships and building out our offerings. 

The candidate will gain experience across the lifecycle of a transformation project and in developing a new offering for KPMG, working closely with other KPMG LOTS teams globally as well as interaction with other services within KPMG such as CIOA and People in Change.  The wider LOTS team has a focus on legal technology and automation and the candidate will have the opportunity to work across all client bases, from mid-market to FTSE listed companies, from public sector to financial services to FMCG. 

—    Provide subject matter expertise and industry insights to our clients undergoing legal transformation
—    Support and contribute to the development of go-to-market strategies, collateral, methodologies and alliance partner relationships
—    Contribute to and lead workstreams within complex, multi-national engagements for our clients, comprising of multi-disciplinary teams —    Taking ownership of micro service offerings as they develop and taking an active role in determining their direction and focus
—    Acting as the conduit between some of our services internally (e.g. Procurement, Finance Transformation, CIO Advisory, Risk Consulting, Legal,     People and Change etc.) and able to co-ordinate multi-disciplinary solutions and teams

Leadership & Management:

The role will report to the Head of Legal Operating Model Transformation. The primary objective will be to support them to help shape and grow service offerings and supporting methodologies within the legal operating model transformation practice. 

As the team and business grows, the candidate will be expected to contribute to the development of people and culture within the team, ensuring continuous development and support for more junior members.

The candidate will also be expected to support with activities related to business development, marketing and communications and collateral development to feed in to the wider LOTS business, in the UK and globally.

Stakeholder Interaction & challenges:

Candidates will be expected to have a strong track record at engaging with and managing stakeholders across different seniorities, functions and industries. 
Candidates will need to manage both internal and external stakeholders self-sufficiently as part of on-going engagements and through business and strategic development.

Impact, Risk, Accountability & Governance:
This role will assist in the growth and development of the practice and service offerings in LOTS, and KPMG Law as a whole by extension.
The successful candidate will contribute to the growth and development of the practice and service offerings in LOTS. The candidate will be responsible for adhering to KPMG standards regarding risk and quality of their work and the work performed by their team within workstreams they oversee.

Experience
Essential
—    Experience in running workstreams

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