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 Partner Independence team are part of the wider Ethics & Independence (“E&I”) team and sit within Quality and Risk Management. The E&I team is responsible for developing and deploying appropriate policy, procedure and guidance on Ethics and Independence (firm, personal and service-related) to ensure compliance with regulatory and KPMG International requirements, ensuring an adequate programme of communication and training in respect of those policies and procedures is in place and providing guidance and advice to Partners and staff on all E&I matters.

The Partner Independence team provide support and guidance to all of KPMG’s Partners and Directors and play an important role ensuring personal independence compliance is met and upheld by helping them to accurate maintain their personal compliance records in line with the policies and procedures surrounding their personal financial affairs.

The Opportunity

This is a chance to build and be part of a new concept at KPMG. We are creating a team to gain access to a new segment of the technology market where there is opportunity for significant growth. We are looking for people to help establish a flexible, start-up culture; drive the best ways of working and ensure we make the most of this opportunity. We will look to our Principle Engineering community to help shape and drive this new business to create a healthy working environment, allowing all our team members to thrive.

This role will be delivering technology enabled outcomes for some of our clients’ most challenging business issues using modern and best in class engineering methodologies. Successful applicants will need to hold or be eligible and willing to attain at least SC level of security clearance. The role is based in Leeds, offering flexible working with 3 days per week in our engineering designed office space.

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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