Indirect Tax Manager

Base Location: London plus network of 20 offices nationally: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations

Why Join KPMG as an Indirect Tax Manager based in the London

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.

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 vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.

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 located across the UK. We work to support our portfolio of clients with a variety of Indirect tax issues. Within the team we have specialists in sectors such as Retail, Supply Chain, International Trade, alongside our Public Sector specialisms. We work closely with our colleagues in Trade & Customs, Corporate and Employment tax to deliver value to KPMG’s clients. The role in question is with the Indirect tax team.

What will you be doing?

• Providing high quality Indirect Tax advisory services on a broad range of indirect tax issues (VAT) to a range of corporate clients;
• Maintaining, developing and managing KPMG’s strong relationships with clients;
• Developing innovative solutions and opportunities for our clients;
• Assisting in the implementation of business development initiatives;
• Providing sales support, developing, building and maintaining key B2B and B2C client relationships
• Developing more junior members of the team from both a technical and commercial perspective;
• Working closely with senior managers, directors and partners who will provide you with the support and opportunities to assist you in realising your full potential.

What will you need to do it?

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who would like to be part of a successful and growing team. You should be someone who:

• Takes personal responsibility and accountability for their work;
• Is driven and committed;
• Is ambitious and motivated to grow personally;
• Seeks out feedback and development opportunities; Identifies and pursues business opportunities;
• Sustains a high level of drive, shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude when coping with pressure at work
• Continuously learns from experiences. Seeks out feedback and development opportunities
• Gives clear directions, positive and constructive feedback. Coaches less experienced staff
• Works in a cooperative, respectful manner with colleagues, clients and the wider community
• Analyses problems, identifies core issues, investigates, evaluates and integrates informati

KPMG Corporate Finance

KPMG's Corporate Finance practice has an industry-leading reputation for delivering forward thinking and objective advice for our UK and global client base, as well as an envied track record in closing successful deals. Together, our firm's Corporate Financiers have advised on or arranged critical and sensitive equity and debt transactions for some of the world's largest corporations, financial institutions and governments.

KPMG is the leading mid-market M&A adviser in the UK, Europe and globally. Revenue growth means we are in the market for recruiting top talent, who are keen to contribute to the ongoing success of the business.

The Team 

You will work on the origination and execution of lead advisory mandates in the mid-market and specialise within the North to help achieve the client’s strategic objectives of buying or selling their company from initial strategic review to successful completion. This is an ideal opportunity for candidates to join a growing and ambitious team as a sector specialist.

The business has significant growth ambitions, through continued deep sector expertise and delivering the highest quality deal execution.

• Senior and trusted client relationships across mid-market and global companies, new strategic entrants, financial investors and leading entrepreneurs
• An enviable set of market credentials across each of KPMG’s major service lines

A diverse skill set and deep sector expertise spanning across all sectors

KPMG’s Strategy & Performance Transformation practice is looking for exceptional candidates for an Manager role, with a sector focus on the Consumer, Retail & Leisure industry and with particular experience in Deal Strategy, one of our core propositions. Additional experience across our other propositions - Growth Strategy, Cost and Operational strategy (including Economic Profitability Analysis) and Enterprise-wide Transformation - will also be valuable.

The Strategy & Performance Transformation team is part of KPMG’s rapidly expanding Strategy Group, which delivers value for clients by challenging conventional thinking, bringing deep industry and functional insights and executing with investor-grade rigour.  We are a diverse team of over 150 practitioners, working collaboratively with and orchestrating KPMG’s broad set of capabilities within our Advisory business

You will be working on a range of projects in the water and energy network sectors. Your work will focus on cost assessment.

Our clients seek expert advice relating to cost and performance benchmarking. There is no ‘typical project’. You will need to apply a structured strategic approach to problem solving, drawing on established economic principles, while having the capacity to think creatively.

Our approach to benchmarking can involve econometric models comparing costs across companies. We also support clients through cost benefit analysis and other benchmarking approaches, such as unit cost models.

The projects that you will advise on will be high profile and varied. For example, in recent years we have advised nearly every water and energy network company on their price control reviews, been the lead advisor on several CMA appeals, and advised on major transactions within the sectors. We have the skills and capabilities to be involved in every major development within the sector.

The work will include a combination of report drafting, data collection/verification, economic analysis, econometric analysis, and engaging with clients.

You will also take a key role in developing the skills of more junior staff.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Manager to join our rapidly expanding Corporate Treasury Services team. Our team is focused on serving the world's leading Corporate Treasuries with their most complex business challenges. The team offer deep treasury expertise in financial products and markets, risk management, systems, governance, valuation and accounting. We work closely with other high impact functions within KPMG such as Audit, Risk Consulting and Management Consulting to provide a wide range of treasury advisory services.