Job Title: Legal Business Services - Assistant Manager

Role Overview
KPMG’s Legal Business Services (LBS) team helps clients transform their legal and contracting functions to be fit for the future. We bring together Legal Operations Consulting, Legal Technology Integration, and Legal Managed Services to enable clients to embed legal directly into enterprise workflows, powered by AI, automation, and redesigned operating models.

We are seeking talented Assistant Managers to support delivery of transformation projects across industries. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a rapidly growing area of KPMG, gaining exposure to cutting-edge legal technology, new operating models, and managed services.

What you will do

• Contribute to multi-disciplinary engagements, taking ownership of workstreams within legal operating model, legal technology, and managed services projects.
• Provide subject matter expertise and market insights on legal transformation and AI-enabled contracting.
• Support the design and delivery of transformation roadmaps structured around our methodologies.
• Assist in developing go-to-market strategies, methodologies, and collateral, as well as alliance partner relationships.
• Act as a connector across KPMG service lines (e.g. Finance, Procurement, CIO Advisory, Risk, People & Change) to deliver integrated solutions.
• Support development of quick wins for clients such as template rationalisation, playbook creation, and CLM process mapping.

Leadership & Management

• Report to Managers and Senior Managers, supporting the growth of our service offerings and methodologies.
• Contribute to building team culture, mentoring junior colleagues, and embedding continuous improvement.
• Support business development, marketing, and knowledge capture to strengthen LBS’s positioning in the market.

Skills & Experience

• Strong consulting toolkit, with experience in process mapping, gap analysis, and stakeholder workshops.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to manage internal and external stakeholders effectively.
• Familiarity with legal operations, legal technology, or managed services is desirable.
• Project management experience (formal qualifications advantageous but not essential).
• Commercial acumen and the ability to deliver high-quality outcomes on time and to budget.

Managed Services - Manager

A key focus for KPMG’s GCT team is to help multinational groups and financial services clients manage their global tax compliance, reporting and statutory accounting obligations, through outsourcing, co-sourcing, transformation and technology. More information about our team is at the end of this job description.

We are looking for talented Managers to join us with technical experience such as:

• Strong tax and/or accounting compliance and reporting expertise and/or
• Strong VAT compliance and/or VAT process management expertise and/or
• Strong transfer pricing compliance and/or transfer pricing advisory expertise

We are additionally looking for experience in:

• Engagement management
• Tax governance and controls expertise 
• Transformation, transition and project management 
• Client relationship management
• Developing standardised methodologies
• Tax compliance process improvement/redesign expertise
• Advising on appropriate technology to support compliance and reporting processes

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Project manage the overall delivery of global and large UK tax and accounting compliance and reporting managed service projects;
• Manage the implementation of managed service and transformation solutions to ensure the widespread adoption across their business units;
• Support the implementation of technology solutions to support the delivery of our managed service solutions;
• Enable effective governance and issue resolution, and act as the central point of contact for international clients and KPMG overseas teams;
• Manage the tax business development process to progress leads to sales and support contract negotiation and agreement;
• Manage tax & statutory transformation projects ranging from redesigning processes, developing Centres of Excellence, upskilling & technology opportunities;
• Develop our tax service offerings and service delivery models;
• Establishing and maintaining strong client relationships with both existing and new clients;
• Line manage assistant managers and trainees and overseeing output of offshore resource in order to deliver client projects;
• Identify opportunities for additional services that the client may need and liaise with subject specialists;
• Coaching and technical support for other team members;
• Follow KPMG best practice and policy.
• Manage monthly governance calls with clients to share the impact of tax & statutory legislative changes on their business and the impact on key processes; 
• Manage issues and escalations arising from global tax compliance delivered under large multinational global engagements. Including but not limited to indirect tax, WHT, transfer pricing, corporate income tax and statutory compliance;
• Lead regular meetings to update clients on the performance of their tax compliance engagements through qualitive KPIs.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Strong project management/co-ordination skills and experience (e.g. on global compliance outsourcing engagements, tax/accounting transformation programmes or similar projects);
  Experience in process, risk and controls design
• Experience in transition, change management and stakeholder management
• Excellent interpersonal skills with strong oral and written communication skills. Communicates with impact, in a way that is open, honest, consistent and clear; 
• Awareness of technology and automation to drive efficiency, risk management and value
• Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own work</

KPMG’s Insurance Enterprise Architecture practice is a leading independent advisor for Technology Architecture professional services. We help CIOs, CTOs and their management teams transform their businesses and IT services. Our clients have to develop robust and executable strategies that have to account for the continual development of technology, with current focus being on Digital disruption, exploitation of cloud technologies and modernising the IT estate.

We help these organisations understand and evaluate their strategic options, build business cases, design the roadmaps and then continually optimise. We have deeply skilled architects to support this journey and make the path robust throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

We are growing our Insurance Architecture team to respond to the increasing demand and in particular seeking technologists with architecture backgrounds and experience in Enterprise Architecture within the Insurance sector. Within the Insurance Architecture team, we work across all areas of the sector, from General Insurance, to Health Insurance, Life and all of London Markets, including Carriers, Brokers, Underwriting, MGA’s, as well as all aspects of the value chain. We look to simplify streamline end-to end architecture, reduce legacy, ensure appropriate governance is in place, as well as advise on new and innovative technology to enable our clients to grow their business and differentiate themselves in the market.

At KPMG we have re-imagined careers in Global Compliance & Transformation (GCT). A key focus for KPMG’s GCT team is to help multinational groups and financial services clients manage their global tax compliance, reporting and statutory accounting obligations, through outsourcing, co-sourcing, transformation and technology.

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 talented individuals who have proven themselves within a consulting environment or equivalent and have a demonstrable track record of turning data into insight or working within strategic change programmes.

We help the Ministry of Defence to solve a wide range of challenges including business or operating model change; strategy development; strategic cost reduction and cost management; performance and operational improvement; and investment decision support. The nature of projects we deliver is highly varied, which means we need team members to demonstrate an ability to continually adapt and grow their skills and knowledge.

This a high impact role that directly supports the UK’s Defence and Security Enterprise.  The role will be subject to MOD and UK Govt public sector governance and controls.  Due to the nature of the work, it is essential that applicants are able and willing to undergo security clearance processes, if they do not already hold a valid UK government clearance