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Why Join KPMG as a Tax Manager: Compliance Hub

The KPMG financial services tax team is a fast-growing part of the KPMG tax practice. Operating from London & Manchester we do work that matters, serving the region with diligence and expertise.

The role is in our Compliance Hub, which has a diverse client and target base spanning the Financial Services sector.

 

You are well on your way in your compliance career with UK corporate tax experience and have a passion for compliance and the varied aspects of your role that this brings. 

 

The team is diverse and collaborative, with individuals based across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow and Edinburgh, we embraced hybrid and flexible working long before it became the norm! Our team has a mix of backgrounds and whatever your background we will give you the support, encouragement, and training to thrive at KPMG.

 

The successful candidate will be a self-starter with a good level of core corporate tax or income tax technical knowledge and a confident outward facing skillset willing to invest time and effort in the marketplace. 

 

What will you be doing?<

Our Transaction Services practice comprises approximately 500 people across the UK, organised to align to KPMG’s market orientated structure, and is at the heart of the Firm's agenda to increase its penetration of boardrooms and work with clients across the economic and transaction cycle.  Our team works closely with colleagues across Deal Advisory as well as Tax, Audit and other Advisory teams; it is a multi-disciplinary and international environment that sits right at the heart of our One Firm agenda. We are recruiting Associate Directors in our Private Equity, Financial Services, Corporates and Capital Markets teams across the UK to support the growth of our TS business.

ob Description :

Immigration Manager - UK

 

 

You will be empowered to manage all aspects of UK immigration applications. This will require you to apply your understanding of legislative changes to ensure that processes and systems are operationalised and followed to comply with current and new legislation. 

 

The role will require you to manage and supervise a high volume of casework and consultations, whilst requiring interaction with key stakeholders on client engagements, to ensure a seamless experience for all assignees/employees.

 

 

 

The Role   

 

•    Provide day-to-day operational oversight across all aspects of the UK immigration process, ensuring day to day execution of service commitments including rigorous quality controls and service enhancements

•    Oversee case management including review and sign off

•    Take on case work on an as needed basis

•    Identify opportunities to use technology to streamline immigration processes

•    Implement the SLA framework ensuring timely and accurate escalations in line with service level commitments

•    Employ strong risk management controls in line with legislation and compliance requirements

•    Adapt to continuous and ongoing legislative changes ensuring process is ‘fit for purpose’ and supported by ongoing training and development

•    Identify the team’s training and development requirements, ensuring the team receives sufficient support and coaching

•    Interpret and apply understanding of corporate policies and practices, and other regulations to provide advice, guidance and support

•    Management of a team: this includes undertaking responsibility for all day-to-day operational matters including managing financials, risk, capacity and performance of the team.

 

Education & Qualification    

 

Experience Required

 

This is a growing team, and the role will suit an ambitious immigration professional with the desire and ability to play an important role in continuing that growth.

 

The successful applicant will be organised and efficient, whilst also possessing excellent communication skills and attention to detail. The successful candidate will also possess the ability to consistently produce high quality and technically accurate legal advice within demanding timeframes, whilst challenging unethical behaviours and seeking appropriate clarifications when required.  Experience of working on multiple, as well as high volume, corporate immigration accounts is essential.

 

The successful applicant will have a proven track record in overseeing and effectively managing a team, including reviewing, and signing off complex immigration advice, whilst consulting and escalating as appropriate. The applicant will also have experience of advising alongside other professionals and have an understanding of the immigration elements involved in cross-border moves, including business traveller risks, remote working, and compliance obligations.

 

The applicant will have experience of handling a wide range of UK immigration applications which ideally will include the, following:

•    Work Visas (Senior or Specialist Workers, Skilled Worker)

•    Frontier Worker Permits

•    Sponsor licence applications and associated ongoing compliance

•    Family applications

•    Mock audits

•    Prevention of illegal working/Right To Work

•    Student and Graduate routes

•    Immigration policy design

 

KPMG is looking for a confident client-facing UK Immigration Manager, with strong technical and inter-personal skills, who thrives in a hi

In the role, you will be responsible for managing and delivering our  most complex audit engagements to a high standard of quality, from planning through to completion. 

You will have your own portfolio of large and/or complex audited entities, with responsibility for agreeing audit timetables, briefing the audit team (including specialists), monitoring budgets, and supervising the KPMG audit process. You will manage and nurture stakeholder relationships at audited entities throughout the engagement, working with senior level staff.

 

You are also likely to have a departmental role, facilitating the internal operations of running the business, for example, roles relating to finance, technology, quality, people etc. 

As an Audit Senior Manager, you will be responsible for leading teams and supervising the work of junior staff, providing coaching and development to assist them in the effective delivery of engagements. You will also have performance management responsibilities for a small number of employees.

KPMG’s Pensions is an exciting initiative to re-establish the pensions team, and specifically to focus on public service pensions advisory and grow revenue at pace. We are now looking for talented and experienced Assistant Manager to join our pensions actuarial team. You will be responsible for delivering high quality actuarial pensions advice in relation to defined benefit pension schemes with a focus on the public sector but also schemes in the private sector. You will be responsible for will work closely with the senior members of the team in this service line, which will involve providing: Strategic journey planning, risk management aiming for self-sufficiency or buy out and endgame options including use of surplus Strategic funding advice to sponsors and advice on compliance with DB funding code Pension due diligence on mergers and acquisitions Provision of member education and communication Advice on benefit change, benefit design and implementation Advice on good governance and compliance Pensions accounting advice   You will