The Partner Independence team are part of the wider Ethics & Independence (“E&I”) team and sit within Quality and Risk Management. The E&I team is responsible for developing and deploying appropriate policy, procedure and guidance on Ethics and Independence (firm, personal and service-related) to ensure compliance with regulatory and KPMG International requirements, ensuring an adequate programme of communication and training in respect of those policies and procedures is in place and providing guidance and advice to Partners and staff on all E&I matters.

The Partner Independence team provide support and guidance to all of KPMG’s Partners and Directors and play an important role ensuring personal independence compliance is met and upheld by helping them to accurate maintain their personal compliance records in line with the policies and procedures surrounding their personal financial affairs.

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This exciting role is within our Midlands Indirect tax team, based in our Midlands Offices.

Our clients include UK headquartered businesses and inbound groups across a range of sectors. 

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Overview

This exciting role is within our South Corporate Tax Advisory & Compliance team, based in our South Central or Southwest offices.

Our clients include UK headquartered businesses and inbound groups across a range of sectors. 

Our work in the tax advisory space includes supporting clients with business and fiscal change. This can include advising on new jurisdiction entry, the development of new business areas, business reorganisations, tax authority enquiries, pre/post transaction reorganisations, refinancing, cash repatriation, interest deductibility and the impact global fiscal change (e.g. BEPS Pillar 2).

We work as a hybrid team where we get together in the office or at client sites at least twice a week to collaborate and learn together, with flexibility over how you spend the rest of your time. 

The role

• Working closely with Partners, Directors, and/or Senior Managers on complex projects to deliver technically excellent advice and service

• Managing UK and cross border teams on advisory projects, liaising with specialists, overseas member firms and external advisers, critically analysing and challenging their input to deliver successful projects and expertise to our clients
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients
• Managing teams and coaching and developing junior members of staff both in respect of technical delivery and soft skills
• Managing our engagement quality and risk processes and client financials
• Being a role model for KPMG’s values

You will also have the opportunity to get involved in UK corporation tax compliance and reporting if that interests you.

The person

• Qualified CTA or ACA / CA or equivalent

• UK corporation tax experience
• Sustains a high level of energy, shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude that translates across the team.
• Displays an inclusive, collaborative approach and operates in a respectful manner with colleagues, clients, and the wider community.
• Brings insight and effectively applies knowledge to business and client problems.
• Communicates with impact, in a way that is open, honest, consistent, and clear.

• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong analytical skills, curious and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice.
• Strong project management skills, including ability to work as part of a team and to show initiative to drive projects forward.
• Ability to multi-task and manage a range of clients, projects, and relationships.
• Effectively develops and coaches’ junior team members.

• Dedication to continuously develop skills and technical knowledge.

Cloud Director – Sales Leadership - Financial Services Sector

At KPMG, you will bring your industry knowledge and technology experience to map customer business challenges to on-premise and cloud technology solutions, shape end-to-end transformational journeys, and deliver real business value to our key Corporates clients. In this role, you will be part of some very exciting client engagements, lead pre-sales activities/proposals and be responsible for delivering our portfolio of technology solutions, whilst maintaining deep executive-level client relationships.
 
As part of this leadership role, you will also inherently lead our brilliant teams, and coach and mentor junior members in their own career progressions whilst contributing to our overall go-to-market activities through building the KPMG brand and being visible as a leading advisor within our clients, the market, and our alliance partners.
 
The Cloud Director role will have the following responsibilities:

• Be visible and seen as an expert in cloud transformation (including Hybrid & Multi-cloud) by the market and alliance partners alike
• Contribute to developing our financial services market growth in cloud transformation, with market facing propositions and assets, building both the KPMG and your personal brand
• Build close working relationships and be a trusted advisor to the C-suite leaders at our financial services clients, focusing on business challenges and opportunities, cloud transformation and more broadly their end-to-end technology journey
• Lead business development opportunities as a core focus in the financial services market through shaping and selling of complex, multi-stakeholder advisory and implementation services around cloud transformation
• Organize, monitor, and lead programme delivery, outcomes, and resources in large transformation programmes
• Design and build roadmaps, implementation strategies, transformation plans and high-quality assets targeting cloud solutions for the customer organisation with the aid of delivery managers, sales colleagues, and senior customer stakeholders
• Contribute to our wider capability group by developing new services and our people
   

The Person
 

• Excellence in consulting skills, with the ability to present complex solutions to business executives. Previous experience in a large consulting organisation is a plus
• Proven business development experience, leading client proposals and RFP’s for cloud transformation and migration projects
• Have the experience and gravitas to build a deep trusted advisor relationship with C-level client stakeholders to guide them how to progress their cloud journey
• Experience doing application migrations including