Senior Manager – Legal Managed Services (Contracting Solution Delivery Lead) 

• Reports to: Director, Legal Managed Services 

• Location: UK (Travel Required) 

Role Summary:

The Senior Manager supports the Director by managing and delivering complex client transitions and transformations in contracting services from pre-sales through transition and implementation. Under the Director's guidance, you will lead detailed aspects of the sales and transition phases, including process mapping, pricing structure development, technology requirement confirmation, and RFP response preparation. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Developing detailed process maps and optimised future-state solutions 

• Confirming technology requirements (CLM, Gen-AI), managing data migration and integration 

• Developing pricing structures and contributing to proposal and pitch material creation 

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KPMG’s Fixed Asset Tax Services Team (capital allowances) is made up of tax advisers, accountants, chartered surveyors and ex-HMRC inspectors who deliver expert advice to a broad range of clients across almost every industry sector. As one of the largest teams in the industry, our continued investment and desire to grow means that we seek a capital allowances specialist in London.

Our team works with clients ranging from owner-managed businesses to large multinational organisations. We are seeking a Manager to join our London team, focusing primarily on the real estate, infrastructure, banking, and insurance sectors, who has a background in capital allowances, tax or accounting.

Role and Responsibilities:

The successful applicant will be:

• A client-facing individual, responsible for building internal and external relationships in order to win projects and drive sales growth both independently and as part of the market team.
• Working with and managing engagement teams both locally and nationally to prepare capital allowances claims, elections and allowances statements.
• Actively involved in delivering and managing ad-hoc advisory work such as entitlement reviews, transaction input (such as tax due diligence, structuring and modelling) and significant one-off consultancy projects.
• Managing internal mandatory risk procedures.
• Ensuring the junior engagement team are keeping documentation up to date and managing junior team members.
• Sharing knowledge.
• Working with local stakeholders and peers to establish a strong network of referrals and business development opportunities.
• Proactively managing business development opportunities and assisting in the preparation of pr

As our Powered HR practice continues to grow we are seeking talented individuals with experience of Oracle implementations. This is a high-profile role within the team, requiring a balance of business development / sales origination and client delivery.

As our Powered HR practice continues to grow we are seeking talented individuals with experience of Oracle implementations. This is a high-profile role within the team, requiring a balance of business development / sales origination and client delivery.

Job Title/Req Number: Corporate Intelligence Analyst

Base Location: UK

Summary of Role Purpose:

The Corporate Intelligence team is looking for a Chinese speaking intelligence analyst. You will help us grow our business and help clients identify and address key reputational and regulatory risks.

Description of the role:

You should expect to be involved in a wide range of challenging engagements, ranging from investigations and litigation support, integrity due diligence, third party risk management and ESG due diligence.

Your role will include iterative research, retrieval and analysis of public record information and drafting of succinct, actionable intelligence reports. The main responsibilities for Research Analysts will include:

• Conducting desktop-based research in Simplified Chinese and other relevant languages. Using a variety of specialist database resources, covering a wide range of corporate, media, credit and regulatory data across China and other jurisdictions;
• Conducting intuitive and creative research using a variety of other online and offline public record sources, especially corporate registries and databases in a variety of countries and languages;
• Sourcing public record information from manual and offline sources, including using external third parties where necessary;
• Combining the above skills to draft and deliver time-critical, succinct and actionable intelligence reports to clients, both internal and external;
• Assisting in the preparation of proposals to clients and supporting the marketing efforts of the Corporate Intelligence team;
• Assisting in the tasking of external third party sources;
• Enhancing the team’s understanding of geopolitical and business risks/opportunities in the Greater China region and the wider APAC region; and,
• Supporting the development of research, thought leadership, and other marketing efforts for the corporate intelligence team.

Role dimensions:

Leadership & Management:

You will be the team’s subject matter expert for the Greater China region, acting as the go-to expert for key research tools in the region as well as business, reputation, integrity and geopolitical risk trends. You may be asked to instruct and manage external researchers and contractors. You will work with other team members to ensure the team’s research, tools and knowledge are up-to-date in your region.

Stakeholder Interaction & challenges:

You will work with experienced senior Corporate Intelligence and wider Forensic team members, conducting independent research and drafting reports. You will have to manage your time to meet competing client deadlines. You may be invited to assist with client calls and proposals, present or contribute thought leadership.

Impact, Risk, Accountability & Governance:

Your key responsibilities will include the timely delivery of succinct, high quality intelligence reports, and maintaining an audit trail of relevant findings. You will be accountable for the quality and accuracy of your research and findings.

The Person:

Essential experience

• Very strong academic qualifications, ideally in politics, international relations, languages, or other disciplines in social science;
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and oral;
• Fluency in Mandarin with the ability to conduct research, interview sources, and translate accurately. Additional foreign languages are a plus (preferred languages are Russian, German, Dutch, Arabic, Italian);
• Demonstrable understanding of business risks/opportunities in the Greater China region and the wider APAC region;
• Some relevant work experience, which might be market research, political risk an