The Role:  D Grade in Asset Management, T&L    The KPMG financial services tax team is a fast-growing part of the KPMG tax practice. We are looking for excellent candidates who are seeking a dynamic and challenging working environment within a strong supportive leadership team.     As a result of growth in our business, we have a number of roles across our Financial Services Operational Taxes team, which has a diverse client base spanning the FS sector - providing services to banks, custodians, brokers, asset managers, alternative investors, wealth and hedge asset managers and global institutional investors such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds.     For the right candidates, there are huge opportunities to be part of an expanding business and to progress quickly as the team grows. The work is interesting and diverse, getting involved with cutting edge developments and working with some of the best-known FS firms as well as mid-size and new market entrants and supporting their business as they rapidly grow.   The team is diverse and collaborative, with individuals based across London, Manchester, Bristol and Edinburgh, we embraced hybrid and flexible working long before it became the norm! Our team has a mix of backgrounds, people who have spent their entire career in professional services, or those with tax, legal, accounting and regulatory backgrounds as well as a number of people who have joined from industry and bring real practical experience to the way we can help clients. Whatever your background we will give you the support, encouragement and training to thrive at KPMG.   Successful candidates will have the opportunity to work across our FS and Asset Management tax teams or to specialise in operational taxes.   We would be really happy to have an informal chat with you to discuss opportunities in more detail.   The Responsibilities: The role involves a mixture of both compliance and advisory responsibilities, with specific duties including: Developing and maintaining a high level of technical knowledge across operational taxes and related areas. Supporting the management of client relationships and projects and becoming a focal point of contact for clients within operational taxes. Understanding our client's business and working with teams across KPMG to identify areas for the provision of operational tax and other services. Developing and advising on cutting edge client propositions. Being involved in business development and proposal activity. Collaborating with KPMG teams across the UK and globally to provide the highest quality operational tax support to our clients. Participating in the development of new client propositions, which will include working with technology teams to develop new solutions, taking these to market and building the delivery model to ensure the highest quality services are provided. Being an advocate for KPMG and the operational taxes team and helping us grow the business through the delivery of relevant and high-quality services to our clients. The Person:   The successful candidates are likely to have some or all of the following skills:   Evidence of deep te

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Forensic - Analytics Manager (108689)

KPMG overview
KPMG in the UK is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Legal, Tax and Advisory services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues we bring our creativity, insight and experience to solve our clients’ and communities’ biggest problems. We’ve been doing this for more than 150 years.

We aim to be universally recognised as a place for great people to do their best work. A firm known for our collaborative and inclusive culture, using technology to empower and equip our people to deliver outstanding work with real flexibility – through inspiring workspaces, innovative ways to collaborate and hybrid ways of working.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our mission is simple: To support the UK in a connected world. It guides everything we do, underpinned by our values: Courage, Integrity, Excellence, Together and For Better.

Summary of role purpose
Investigations and Compliance (I&C) is part of KPMG’s Forensic practice.  We help clients with their biggest and most challenging misconduct and integrity matters.  Our work helps clients respond to regulatory enquiries, reduce reputational risk and prevent or reduce commercial loss by helping them to investigate and mitigate risks including fraud and misconduct, bribery and corruption, financial crime and much more.
As a result of an exciting and increasing pipeline of fraud analytics work, we are looking for a Manager to help coordinate the strategic direction of a team deploying analytics (including fraud analytics routines and GenAI capabilities) over large complex financial and other datasets, both structured and unstructured.

Description of the role
The role will involve leading a team deploying forensic analytics (including testing routines across structured data and LLM-enabled unstructured, structured and open-source data analysis) over large datasets to help our clients solve their most complex fraud, misconduct and integrity matters.

This role requires a deep understanding of both structured and unstructured data analytics techniques, coupled with strong leadership and communication skills.  The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and implementing innovative analytical solutions leveraging a wide range of techniques, including through the use of SQL, Python, cloud computing and Generative AI (GenAI).

You should expect to work on a variety of project-based work over a cross section of forensic work types, industries and geographies. Day to day activities will vary depending on the type and circumstances of each project.

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.