Strategy and Value creation teams work with C-level Executives to identify, structure and solve their most critical strategic issues across the economic and transaction cycles. As part of a fast-paced and dynamic group, our consultants offer strategic advice on financial, business and operating models to corporate, public sector and private equity clients.

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.

Assistant Manager - IGH GRCS – KPMG - Consulting

Base Location: London plus network of 20 offices nationally: KPMG Office Locations

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Joining KPMG means joining a talented team of exceptional colleagues who bring innovative thoughts and a natural curiosity to the work they do each day. No one type of person succeeds at KPMG; a diverse business requires diverse personalities, characters, and perspectives. There really is a place for you here.

Why Join KPMG as a Assistant Manager - IGH GRCS? 

KPMG's Governance, Risk and Compliance Services (GRCS) practice within IGH is an area of the firm with tremendous growth potential. GRCS is an integral part of our Enterprise Risk advisory practice. We provide services relating to internal audit, internal control, corporate governance, risk management and related assurance projects. Clients are based in the public sector and our services deliver added value to clients using modern control assessment, risk management and audit techniques focusing on strategic, management and operational issues as well as financial management and reporting controls. We also work closely with other consulting teams including our colleagues in Technology Risk and Cyber Risk to ensure our clients receive the best possible advice and assurance. 

What will you be doing?

•    Assurance mapping
•    Creating annual audit plans for clients
•    Providing internal audit services on both outsourced and co-sourced contractual basis
•    Managing and directly delivering a programme of internal audit projects which includes planning, review, quality assurance and reporting
•    Working with a client’s in-house internal audit function for co-source engagements to supply specialist or additional resource needed
•    Process improvement projects
•    Risk management, governance and internal audit advisory services
•    Risk identification workshops and control reviews
•    Delivering control and risk training
•    Managing and reviewing internal control questionnaires
•    Corporate governance reviews
•    Contract compliance audits
•    Assessing effectiveness of internal audit functions, audit committees and boards
•    Working with members of other KPMG advisory teams 
•    Business development 

What will you need to do it?

•    Assisting with the management of UK-wide portfolio of clients, maintaining relationships with senior KPMG and client staff and being responsible for the financial performance and delivery of these accounts
•    Demonstrating a detailed understanding of how current and emerging legal, regulatory, governance, risk management, auditing, accounting and financial reporting standards affect their clients
•    Understanding and assisting managers to undertake KPMG's internal risk management and client engagement management procedures including client acceptance, continuance and engagement procedures
•    Keeping up to date with all industry specific issues and circumstances which affect your clients
•    Developing internal audit strategies which address all internal audit, client service and project management issues, in accordance with the KPMG internal audit methodology
•    Delivering against those audit strategies
•    Recognising where specialists are required and involving other KPMG staff, managing their input to the client
•    Reviewing the audit evidence obtained ensuring it is sufficient in line with International Internal Audit (IIA) and PSIAS (Public Sector Internal Audit) Standards and KPMG method

Managed Services - Manager

A key focus for KPMG’s GCT team is to help multinational groups and financial services clients manage their global tax compliance, reporting and statutory accounting obligations, through outsourcing, co-sourcing, transformation and technology. More information about our team is at the end of this job description.

We are looking for talented Managers to join us with technical experience such as:

• Strong tax and/or accounting compliance and reporting expertise and/or
• Strong VAT compliance and/or VAT process management expertise and/or
• Strong transfer pricing compliance and/or transfer pricing advisory expertise

We are additionally looking for experience in:

• Engagement management
• Tax governance and controls expertise 
• Transformation, transition and project management 
• Client relationship management
• Developing standardised methodologies
• Tax compliance process improvement/redesign expertise
• Advising on appropriate technology to support compliance and reporting processes

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Project manage the overall delivery of global and large UK tax and accounting compliance and reporting managed service projects;
• Manage the implementation of managed service and transformation solutions to ensure the widespread adoption across their business units;
• Support the implementation of technology solutions to support the delivery of our managed service solutions;
• Enable effective governance and issue resolution, and act as the central point of contact for international clients and KPMG overseas teams;
• Manage the tax business development process to progress leads to sales and support contract negotiation and agreement;
• Manage tax & statutory transformation projects ranging from redesigning processes, developing Centres of Excellence, upskilling & technology opportunities;
• Develop our tax service offerings and service delivery models;
• Establishing and maintaining strong client relationships with both existing and new clients;
• Line manage assistant managers and trainees and overseeing output of offshore resource in order to deliver client projects;
• Identify opportunities for additional services that the client may need and liaise with subject specialists;
• Coaching and technical support for other team members;
• Follow KPMG best practice and policy.
• Manage monthly governance calls with clients to share the impact of tax & statutory legislative changes on their business and the impact on key processes; 
• Manage issues and escalations arising from global tax compliance delivered under large multinational global engagements. Including but not limited to indirect tax, WHT, transfer pricing, corporate income tax and statutory compliance;
• Lead regular meetings to update clients on the performance of their tax compliance engagements through qualitive KPIs.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Strong project management/co-ordination skills and experience (e.g. on global compliance outsourcing engagements, tax/accounting transformation programmes or similar projects);
  Experience in process, risk and controls design
• Experience in transition, change management and stakeholder management
• Excellent interpersonal skills with strong oral and written communication skills. Communicates with impact, in a way that is open, honest, consistent and clear; 
• Awareness of technology and automation to drive efficiency, risk management and value
• Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own work</