About KDN (KPMG Delivery Network)

The world of global advisory, audit and tax compliance services for large multi-nationals is rapidly changing and heavily dependent on technology. The KPMG Delivery Network (KDN) is a is a a global organisation that supports KPMG member firms in delivering global priority solutions to their clients across a number of different industries. KDN helps to enable growth, improve economies of scale, and discover new ways of collaboration and working.

You’ll be a part of the KPMG family working alongside some of our profession’s most skilled practitioners on rewarding programs and initiatives that are changing the way business operates, delivering value to KPMG's clients, and driving positive change in the communities we serve. You’ll be assisting KDN to accelerate new ways of working, using cutting-edge technology and working together with our member firms located in nearly 150 countries to help us achieve our ambition to be the most trusted and trustworthy professional services firm.

Role summary

The KDN Solution Lead – AI will be leader for the AI offerings, will be instrumental in arriving at strategy, plan, direct and control the AI associated solutions, evolve the portfolio, functions and Delivery of all AI portfolio of solutions. Instrumental Define and provide strategic and technical direction for AI solution and delivery operations.

How will you make your mark?

 Key responsibilities include

• Develop and own the long-term strategy, value proposition, differentiation for the AI solution and offering
• Analyse market trends, customer insights, and competitive landscape to shape offering direction 
• Act as the single point of accountability for stakeholders, Member Firms and customers
• Collaborate closely with sales, alliances, and customer success to drive adoption
• Engage customers directly during solution demos, roadmap presentations, and escalations.
• Ability to foresee AI’s long term impact on industries and integrate it into organizational strategy
• Champion customer advocacy and long-term value realisation
• Own the solution scale up, utilisation, centre strategy and P&L for the platform or solution portfolio.
• Accountable for operational and Financial KPIs set for AI solution/service portfolio each FY 

This is the job for you if you have

• Exposure to AI governance and regulatory frameworks
• Experience in building AI business, solutions and competency • Experience in GenerativeAI, LLM and prompt engineering
• Exsentive experience in technology with 5+ years in AI/ML leadership role
• Strong hands on experience with ML frameworks
• Experience with cloud platforms(AWS, AZURE)
• Deep understanding of ML algorithms, LLMs and AI architecture
• Proven experience in deploying AI solutions at scale across industries
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills.
• Leadership and people skills: Capable of guiding teams through digital transformation and AI adoption.
• Ability to build talent, experience in building and mentoring AI teams, fostering innovation and upskilling employees
• Ethical and Governance competencies: Responsible AI practices, knowledge of fairness, transparency bias mitigation and regulatory compliance.
• Risk Management: Ability to anticipate and address ethical, legal and risk implications of AI deployment and guide organizations and clients.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with GenAI, LLM finetuning and prompt engineering.

Manager – Alternatives Funds Tax

Location: London & Other locations

Capability: Tax & Law

Service line: FS CTAC

Experience level: Manager

Employment type: Full Time or Part Time

Contract type: Permanent

Introduction 

The KPMG Alternatives team provides high-quality and impactful tax advisory and compliance services to the Alternative Investment Fund sector. This includes private equity, hedge funds, credit funds and real estate funds.

Due to our ongoing growth, we have a number of job openings for exceptional candidates. This posting is for a role focussed on Real Estate tax and would be well suited to a driven and motivated candidate with experience in Real Estate or Alternative Investment Funds sector, or someone with a keen interest in developing this as a specialism. We would also like to hear from candidates who have experience of working in a tax team covering Real Estate. We are also hiring for other roles across the Alternatives tax team – see separate postings.

Key responsibilities
As a Manager, your responsibilities will include:

• Managing the delivery of tax advice on a wide range of UK and international tax matters relevant to the Real Estate sector, including UK corporation tax and partnership tax matters. This will include reviewing work prepared by team members and undertaking detailed technical research of legislation, case law and HMRC manuals.
• Owning the corporation tax and partnership tax process from end-to-end, including reviewing drafts that have been prepared by team members.
• Managing, coaching and supporting other members of the team, on both technical and people matters.
• Running client meetings and calls.
• Interacting with HMRC, including by telephone and letter.
• Maintain a portfolio of clients with whom you will build long-term trusted client relationships. Take responsibility for ensuring that their tax advisory and tax compliance needs are met, including pro-actively bringing relevant tax developments to their attention.
• Working collaboratively with other members of the Alternatives team in the UK, as well as with other KPMG offices globally. Adapting your style and approach when needed in order to achieve the best possible outcome.
• Driving business development initiatives for the team.

Relevant skills and experience for this role

The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate all of the following attributes:

• Qualified as a Chartered Accountant (CA or ACA), Chartered Tax Advisor or solicitor (or international equivalent).
• Career drive to develop a specialism in Real Estate taxation and to be part of a fast-growing, high-performing Alternatives tax team. Positive approach to personal development and motivation for progression to Senior Manager grade and beyond, as your experience and knowledge develops.
• Track record of managing the delivery of high-quality corporate tax advisory and compliance services to clients. Experience in the Real Estate or Alternative Investment Funds sector is preferred, but this is not essential.
• Ability to take day to day leadership of delivery team, including supporting them with managing competing deadlines and communicating effectively with colleagues and clients, including when under pressure.
• Strong level of UK corporation tax knowledge and the ability to communicate complex rules and ideas in a simple way, both verbally and in writing.
• Delivers written work to a consistently high standard, with a strong att