Corporate Tax Manager – Advisory & Compliance
Why Join KPMG as a Tax Manager: Corporate Tax Advisory & Compliance
KPMG's Tax practice is a dynamic and successful area of our business. A constantly changing and increasingly high-profile field, Tax can offer a surprisingly broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people.
Our London region CTAC team is a fast growing part of our Tax practice with a diverse client base ranging from PE-backed, owner managed and family businesses through to UK listed and multinationals.
Working in our successful CTAC business will give you the opportunity to develop relationships with clients as you manage the tax compliance process together with getting involved on various advisory projects such as, business reorganisations, tax authority enquiries, pre/post transaction reorganisations, refinancing, cash repatriation, interest deductibility and the impact of global fiscal change (e.g. BEPS Pillar 2).
What will you be doing?
This exciting role is within our London region Corporate Tax Advisory & Compliance team, based in our Canary Wharf office. We work as a region which comprises 5 other offices.
The successful candidate will be able to build strong relationships, develop junior staff, provide excellent client service and identify business development opportunities.
- Be market facing with allocated clients and target organisations.
- Liaising with the client service team and with colleagues in other tax disciplines as well as the audit and accounting discipline to provide a co-ordinated service to the client.
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients and identifying leads for new work
- Ensuring that clients are kept up to date on developments within the corporate tax world that may affect their businesses.
- Hold conversations with stakeholders in the markets and be capable of introducing relevant specialists from across the firm.
- Lead by example with client relationships, technical quality and service delivery
- Actively promote team and personal profile to internal networks in order to promote collaboration and increase internal leads.
- Being involved in business development and proposal activity
- Managing our engagement quality and risk processes and client financials
- Being a role model for KPMG’s values
- Managing teams, coaching, and developing staff procedures.
What will you need to do it?
- Qualified (ACA/ACCA or CTA or equivalent).
- Strong educational background (preferably 2:1 or higher University degree)
- Sound knowledge of UK corporate taxation.
- Sound knowledge of accountancy principles, in particular accounting for tax (including deferred taxation and accounts disclosures).
- Strong time and task management skills. Able to remain calm when under pressure and meet deadlines.
- Sustains a high level of drive, shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude when coping with pressure at work.
- Monitors and upholds high quality of service and products to clients (internal and external).
- A practical approach to problems with client focus and commercial awareness.
- Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own work. Continuously learns from experiences. Seeks out feedback and development opportunities.
- Ability to build good relationships with clients.
- Communicates with impact in a way that is open, honest, consistent, and clear.
- Ability to work as part of a team. Gives clear directions, positive and constructive feedback. Coaches less experienced staff.
- Works in a cooperative, respectful