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 the Real Estate sector. We would also like to hear from candidates who have experience of working in a tax team within a real estate fund. We are also hiring for other roles across the Alternatives tax team – see separate postings.

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 technical ability relating to tax or financial services – e.g., this might be a

qualification in tax, audit, finance, law, regulation or significant practical experience gained in an

industry

SAP Controlling (CO) Implementation Consultant (108705)

Role Summary: A Manager in our Technology and Data SAP capability will play a pivotal role in expanding the SAP Finance Practice with a key focus on Management Accounting (CO). He will lead a team of functional consultants to deliver end-to-end solutions that align financial controlling processes with global business objectives within SAP S/4HANA (Public Cloud and on-prem/private cloud). This role involves collaborating with business stakeholders to translate complex requirements into scalable, robust, and compliant SAP solutions, ensuring seamless integration and adherence to SAP best practices. The SAP Controlling Manager will drive the adoption of S/4HANA capabilities, minimize customizations, and ensure alignment with SAP best practices.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead fit-to-standard workshops and translate complex business requirements into scalable SAP CO functional designs.
• Oversee configuration and maintenance of core CO sub-modules, including Cost Center Accounting (CCA), Profit Center Accounting (PCA), Internal Orders, and Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).
• Manage high-impact areas such as transition to Universal Parallel Accounting (UPA), Product Costing (CO-PC), Event-Based Production Accounting, Material Ledger (ML), and Actual Costing related month-end activities.
• Coordinate seamless integration between SAP CO and other modules such as FI, MM, SD, and PP to ensure data integrity across the enterprise.
• Drive process improvements by leveraging SAP Best Practices and SAP’s latest S/4HANA innovations (e.g. SAP BTP, AI/ML tools, process mining).
• Act as a trusted advisor to business and IT leadership, communicating complex solution designs and their impact on business outcomes.
• Ensure solution integrity across the project lifecycle, from design to go-live, and maintain consistency and cross-functional alignment
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (functional, technical, data migration, integration, change management) to ensure cohesive solution delivery and business alignment.
• Expand the Controlling practice within SAP Finance capability by being an active contributor to Pre-sales pursuits, team building and asset development activities.

KPMG’s Pensions Advisory business continues to build out its new pensions team, and requires individuals that can bring different skill-sets to the team.

We are looking for a talented Consultant to join our team, who will be responsible for working closely with colleagues in the area of defined contribution pensions. Specific areas of focus, but not exhaustive, will include

• Scheme strategy and structure across workplace pensions
• Member engagement and education
• Investment policy
• Governance, including setting up governance committees
• Wider benefit and reward strategy
• Financial coaching and well-being
• Statutory auto-enrolment compliance and implementation
• Compliance

KPMG has one of the leading Indirect Tax practices in the UK. We work as a national practice providing advice and support in all aspects of Indirect Tax (VAT, Customs Duty, Green taxes) to a broad range of business sectors including large multi-nationals, household name retailers and public sector organisations. The Indirect Tax practice is a fast-growing and dynamic business, currently with 21 partners and approximately 200 professional staff in the UK.

We have a significant growth plan over the next three years and to support this we are looking to recruit motivated individuals who are seeking a real challenge, to build on our successes to date and help us achieve our growth targets.

This Manager role is Financial Services focussed. KPMG has one of the largest Financial Services Indirect Tax departments, advising banking, insurance, investment management, asset backed finance, real estate and private equity clients across a broad range of issues.

The Manager will be responsible for ensuring the quality of delivery at this specialist level and will be actively involved in managing the performance of junior colleagues within the team.

Roles and Responsibilities:

You will be a key member of our team, providing high quality Indirect Tax advisory services on a broad range of indirect tax issues to a range of clients;

• Providing advice on technical issues;
• Working within and supporting client service teams;
• Maintaining and developing strong relationships with clients;
• Becoming the day- to-day contact for allocated clients;
• Assisting with the innovation of indirect tax opportunities, and the delivery of those opportunities;
• Delegating work to and developing tax assistants; and
• Working closely with Senior Managers and Directors who will provide you with the support and opportunities to assist you in realising your full potential.

Experience and Background:

• The ability to work proactively within a team environment
• Sound judgement, including the ability to research relevant matters
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to apply them practically
• The ability to communicate effectively at all levels (internally and externally)
• The desire to learn quickly
• Enthusiasm and a ‘can do’ attitude
• Drive and determination
• The desire to seek responsibility, knowledge and new challenges