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The Team

We are currently recruiting managers to join our successful Family Office & Private Client Compliance team in our Bristol, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow,

As a national practice our FO&PC team consists of 162 team members across the UK, led by 4 Partners, 7 Associate Partners and 19  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 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.

We also recognise and value highly motivated individuals who are qualified through experience rather than exams and invite you to apply too. 
 The Role

The personal tax environment moves rapidly and our practice sits within a highly regulated environment.  Candidates should be capable of managing a diverse range of tasks and demonstrate an aptitude for project management whilst maintaining impeccable standards of client service.

The role entails managing a portfolio of, and holding the relationship with, compliance clients whilst identifying and actively seeking value-added advisory opportunities.  You will lead the provision of day to day advisory matters on your clients, introducing and working alongside advisory colleagues where appropriate. 

You will ensure the delivery of a high quality compliance service to our clients, including the review of complex and varied tax returns, capital gains calculations, land and property accounts and complex residence and remittance issues.  You will also manage the risk and regulatory considerations on your portfolio, budgeting, work in progress and ensure prompt billing and cash collection.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

The role will suit either a high performing Manager keen to work with an exciting client base and keen to progress, or a recently qualified individual looking to gain exposure to a dynamic and entrepreneurial team.

Candidates interested in this role should have the following skills and qualifications:

• A desire to work in a challenging but rewarding environment;
• Comfortable with building internal and client relationships in a hybrid working environment;
• Strong communication skills and a willingness to contribute ideas and actively participate in supporting business growth and practice development;
• Qualified accountant or tax advisor with experience working in a personal tax focussed environment with exposure to a varied client base and strong commercial acumen.
• Academically strong results in career to date coupled with a keen and insightful understanding of the issues facing private clients and partnerships.
• An understanding of the KPMG Values and their importance in our work together.
• Professional curiosity, enthusiasm for private client work and an aptitude for technical analysis perhaps with a desire to specialise in an area of interest alongside a strong general technical competence.

We are also open

This role involves working on a range of projects with a client base in the Financial Services sector.

The work involves:

• Providing technical transfer pricing advice to our Financial Services clients on a broad range of topics
• Developing and maintaining client relationships including acting as the main point of contact for clients and relevant stakeholders
• Managing various projects across multiple jurisdictions and leading the day-to-day delivery processes
• Coordinating with KPMG's transfer pricing, international tax, indirect tax and advisory teams on a range of topics
• Financial management, including developing and managing project budgets and billing to ensure profitable delivery of client engagements
• 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 identifying new opportunities and managing business development and marketing initiatives along with proposition and market leads

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.
• At least 5 years of transfer pricing experience, preferably including experience of transfer pricing advisory projects, preparing transfer pricing documentation, tax value chain analyses, benchmarking, supporting with tax authority enquiries/Advance Pricing Agreements, project management and managing junior team members
• Sound judgement, including the ability to identify and evaluate risk issues and know when to involve others.
• Strong analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice
• High level of drive and enthusiasm with a positive attitude
• Strong commercial awareness
• 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
• An appreciation of and/or understanding of ethical/risk issues within a client service environment
• Very strong people skills for engaging with our clients and team members
• Highly organised with excellent communication and project management skills
• Experience of the Financial Services industry is highly desirable