Transfer Pricing

Grade: C

Job Title: Transfer Pricing Manager specialising in Transfer Pricing Audit

Recognised in the marketplace for our technical excellence, Transfer Pricing at KPMG is an integral part of the firm’s global community. Our firm is also renowned for its technical excellence in Audit, delivering high‑quality, rigorous audit work underpinned by strong analytical capability and professional scepticism. KPMG’s specialist Transfer Pricing Audit team sits within the firm’s national transfer pricing team and audits the transfer pricing arrangements of a range of businesses to identify transfer pricing risks.

Our team works on a broad range of audits from FTSE100 Group reporting engagements to UK statutory audits.

The KPMG specialist audit team have high levels of technical expertise and team members below partner and director work closely with the partners and directors in the team. There is extensive on the job coaching as well as more regular technical training sessions. The nature of the work provides an ideal environment for team members to rapidly increase their technical skills seeing a wide variety of audits. 

The team is a virtual team and there is the ability to work from any location.

The Responsibilities/Job Description

This role involves working on a range of audits to test whether the tax on the transfer pricing arrangements materially complies with the arm’s length principle as set out in the UK Transfer Pricing legislation.

Day to day, the work involves:

• Managing various transfer pricing audits and leading the day-to-day transfer pricing audit processes
• Coordinating with KPMG's Audit and Tax Audit teams on a range of audits
• Acting as the main point of contact for audit entity management teams
• Speaking to Audit Entities to obtain the facts
• Coaching and developing junior team members which will also include delivering training sessions and providing on-the-job coaching on a regular basis
• Ensuring timely reporting to senior management
• Actively contributing to sharing transfer pricing audit knowledge to the transfer pricing advisory team

The Person

We are looking for candidates with the following skills/experience:

• Either a CTA, CA, ACA, ACCA or attained a Bachelors or Masters degree in economics, finance, law, accounting or equivalent qualification
• Transfer pricing experience: preferably including experience of transfer pricing audits, policy setting, tax authority enquiries/Advance Pricing Agreements, operational transfer pricing, financing transfer pricing, project management and managing junior team members; or significant audit experience  
• Sound judgement and an enquiring mind, including the ability to objectively assess and challenge management’s assumptions and exercise professional scepticism
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• High level of drive and enthusiasm with a positive attitude
• Keen ability and willingness to keep up to date technically and develop the technical ability of the team below you
• Ability to work autonomously and to take initiative as appropriate
• Highly organised with excellent communication and project management skills

Job Overview

This exciting role is within our International Tax Team based in the London office, focussing on multinational businesses. You’ll join a high performing team advising some of the largest and most complex organisations.

We are looking for a talented individual at Assistant Manager level to support our continued rapid growth. The successful candidate will thrive in a dynamic and challenging working environment, supported by a strong and ambitious leadership team.

Job Description

You will work with a diverse portfolio of clients across UK listed and take on a variety of projects, including tax structuring, international expansion, and operating model redesign.

Previous experience of working with multinationals is helpful, but strong technical skills, drive and curiosity are essential.

Key roles and responsibilities will include:

• Working as a key member of the team to provide International Tax Advisory services to support our clients in achieving their commercial objectives.

• Supporting the successful delivery of technically excellent advice including tax structuring, refinancing, legal structure optimisation, pre/post transaction reorganisations, tax authority enquiries and providing technical support to the wider corporate tax team.

• Liaising with specialists in other departments and overseas offices to oversee their input into tax advisory projects.

• Starting to develop and maintain strong relationships with clients and understanding of their business in order to create opportunities to help with the provision of tax and other services.

• Supporting on proposals for new work, including delivering tender documents, presenting at client pitches and identifying solutions for client issues.

• Being a role model for KPMG’s values.

Qualifications and Experience

• ACA, CA, CTA, ACCA or equivalent qualified with strong corporate tax and accounting knowledge.

• Strong interpersonal skills are required in addition to strong oral and written communication skills.

• Well-developed analytical skills.

• Ability to multi-task – to manage a wide range of projects and relationships.

• High level of drive and enthusiasm with a positive attitude.

• Dedication to continuously develop technical knowledge.

• Inquisitive with attention to detail.

Service Line Information

KPMG's International Tax practice is a dynamic and successful area of our business. A constantly changing and increasingly high-profile field, International Tax can offer an exciting broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people.

Working in the International Tax business at KPMG will give you the opportunity to develop relationships with clients assisting them with all their strategic tax requirements. This involves giving advice on corporate planning and restructuring projects both in the UK and Internationally.

Deal Advisory Tax

At KPMG, our Values define who we are and the way we do business. As a leading professional services firm, we know that our strength and capability come from our people: their different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds.

Deal Advisory Tax is a dynamic and successful area of KPMG’s Tax & Legal business.  We have an inclusive and collaborative leadership strategy and are making bold changes to our culture and how we work.  A constantly changing and high-profile field, we work in a fast-paced, challenging and rewarding environment, and can offer a broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people.

The Role

Deal Advisory Tax provides market leading services to both Corporate and Financial investors.  Whilst we have teams focused on clients in four key markets Corporates; Private Equity & Credit; Real Estate and Energy & Infrastructure, we are a national and connected team, working and learning with each other.

• Corporates:  We work alongside some of the most forward-thinking FTSE 100 and 250 businesses, as well as Corporates across the UK, supporting them with strategic acquisitions, carve outs, de-mergers, disposals, and joint ventures both in the UK and cross-border. Our corporates business is a multi-sector business, including Consumer, Life sciences, TMT, Industrials, ENR and Banking & Insurance. 
• Asset Management:  We work with Private Equity, Infrastructure, Renewable/ Energy transition, and Real Estate Funds, both large and mid-cap, as well as institutional investors such as Sovereign Wealth Funds and Pension Funds.  Our clients have UK, European and Global investment strategies and will often have teams across multiple asset classes which a

Deal Advisory / M&A Tax – Private Equity & Credit

Tax Manager

At KPMG, our Values define who we are and the way we do business. As a leading professional services firm, we know that our strength and capability come from our people: their different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds.

Deal Advisory Tax (DAT) is a dynamic and successful area of KPMG’s Tax & Legal business. We have an inclusive and collaborative leadership strategy and are making bold changes to our culture and how we work. A constantly changing and high-profile field, we work in a fast-paced, challenging and rewarding environment, and can offer a broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people.

The Role

DAT provides market leading advice to corporates and financial institutions on a broad range of transactions. 

Embedded within DAT is our Private Equity & Credit team. The PE&C team works with large and mid-cap private equity and credit intuitions, advising them throughout the deal spectrum including buy-side due diligence and structuring, sell-side vendor assist, due diligence and structuring, refinancing, restructuring and listing support.

The PE&C team has advised on some of the largest deals in the market, helping clients understand and quantify historical tax issues, structure transactions, model tax outcomes and reflect advice in the legal documents underpinning each transaction, all with a continuous focus on maximising value throughout the investment cycle. Working collaboratively across the KPMG network, our work often involves advice across multiple countries, taxes, and work streams.

Key Responsibilities