Join KPMG’s Governance, Risk and Compliance Services practice in London as an Assistant Manager, helping public and private sector clients strengthen governance, risk management, internal controls and assurance. You will work across a varied portfolio of internal audit and grants assurance engagements, with scope to tailor your focus to your experience and interests. You will manage and directly deliver assignments, build trusted client relationships, review evidence and reports, support engagement performance and contribute to business development. This is an opportunity for a qualified audit or assurance professional, including someone moving from external audit, to broaden their career in governance, risk and advisory work within a growing practice.

Transfer Pricing

Grade: C

Job Title: Transfer Pricing Manager specialising in Transfer Pricing Audit

Recognised in the marketplace for our technical excellence, Transfer Pricing at KPMG is an integral part of the firm’s global community. Our firm is also renowned for its technical excellence in Audit, delivering high‑quality, rigorous audit work underpinned by strong analytical capability and professional scepticism. KPMG’s specialist Transfer Pricing Audit team sits within the firm’s national transfer pricing team and audits the transfer pricing arrangements of a range of businesses to identify transfer pricing risks.

Our team works on a broad range of audits from FTSE100 Group reporting engagements to UK statutory audits.

The KPMG specialist audit team have high levels of technical expertise and team members below partner and director work closely with the partners and directors in the team. There is extensive on the job coaching as well as more regular technical training sessions. The nature of the work provides an ideal environment for team members to rapidly increase their technical skills seeing a wide variety of audits. 

The team is a virtual team and there is the ability to work from any location.

The Responsibilities/Job Description

This role involves working on a range of audits to test whether the tax on the transfer pricing arrangements materially complies with the arm’s length principle as set out in the UK Transfer Pricing legislation.

Day to day, the work involves:

• Managing various transfer pricing audits and leading the day-to-day transfer pricing audit processes
• Coordinating with KPMG's Audit and Tax Audit teams on a range of audits
• Acting as the main point of contact for audit entity management teams
• Speaking to Audit Entities to obtain the facts
• Coaching and developing junior team members which will also include delivering training sessions and providing on-the-job coaching on a regular basis
• Ensuring timely reporting to senior management
• Actively contributing to sharing transfer pricing audit knowledge to the transfer pricing advisory team

The Person

We are looking for candidates with the following skills/experience:

• Either a CTA, CA, ACA, ACCA or attained a Bachelors or Masters degree in economics, finance, law, accounting or equivalent qualification
• Transfer pricing experience: preferably including experience of transfer pricing audits, policy setting, tax authority enquiries/Advance Pricing Agreements, operational transfer pricing, financing transfer pricing, project management and managing junior team members; or significant audit experience  
• Sound judgement and an enquiring mind, including the ability to objectively assess and challenge management’s assumptions and exercise professional scepticism
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• High level of drive and enthusiasm with a positive attitude
• Keen ability and willingness to keep up to date technically and develop the technical ability of the team below you
• Ability to work autonomously and to take initiative as appropriate
• Highly organised with excellent communication and project management skills

Shape the growth of KPMG’s US Private Client Tax Practice as a Tax Director, leading complex US and UK tax work for private clients. You’ll combine technical judgement, client leadership and commercial influence to deliver tailored advice, strengthen trusted intermediary relationships and support new client onboarding. Alongside managing a significant portfolio, you’ll coach colleagues, collaborate with specialists and help maintain quality, risk and financial discipline. This is an opportunity to make a visible contribution to an evolving practice while developing long-term relationships with clients, trustees, wealth managers and colleagues across KPMG. 

• Manager role within Transfer Pricing Compliance 
• Focus on delivering global TP compliance and transformation projects (local files, master files, TP returns, benchmarking and Technology and AI implementation)
• Works across multiple jurisdictions, clients, and industries