The Role

Responsibilities

• We require the individual to deliver technical client projects and support internal product development around risk and regulatory issues for our banking clients.
• Support the development of risk and regulatory topics
• Advise clients on the benefits and impact of regulations, current industry practices and advancements.
• Keep abreast of all latest trends and any new regulations, leveraging off international SME support where applicable.
• The individual will be required to apply their skills to a broad range of regulatory and risk-related issues supporting both regional and national propositions.

The Person

Desirable Qualifications, Skills, Experience & Knowledge

• Good understanding of banks and/or trading businesses
• Strong understanding of financial products
• Strong understanding of financial services firms' businesses, structures, governance frameworks, risk management and process and control arrangements, in the Banking and/or Investment Management sectors
• Strong familiarity with role of key bank functions including Front office, Market Risk, Product control, Treasury and Compliance
• Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills and ability to develop and maintain strong internal and external networks
• Experience of regulation impacting banking clients and knowledge of new regulatory developments impacting them
• A practical understanding of the ‘three lines of defence’ model
• Flexibility and agility to contribute in a senior capacity to a broad range of banking risk engagements
• Excellent oral / written communication, planning, project management, networking and influencing skills.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage a team of professional staff, including decision-making, time management, prioritisation, organisation, and evaluation skills
• Flexibility to work across the UK (and internationally) where required
• Higher qualification in mathematical subject (Maths, Economics, Physics, Engineering etc) (or other related degree) or programming skills advantageous.

Our Audit Learning Business Partners are the critical two-way link between the business and our Learning and Development teams. As a key member of the team, your role contributes true value to the bottom line and is recognised as essential for short and long-term strategic business planning. Your responsibilities span the employee life cycle inclusive of the talent agenda, so you are a true partner to the Capability-aligned HR community. Collaboration across our operating model is a key feature of how you will deliver impactful results

Reporting to the Senior Learning Business Partner, you will build trusted advisor relationships with senior stakeholders in your business super service lines. Using your knowledge and experience of the core learning and HR competencies, coupled with your commercial awareness, you will translate your clients’ business needs into realistic and achievable solutions that reflect the learning strategy and deliver impact. It’s a fast paced and changing environment. Working closely with the Audit Technical Learning team to ensure alignment with technical learning, you will ensure non-technical learning supports the wider Audit learning strategy as a seamless experience. You will be a role model for collaboration to those around you, influencing, coaching, and challenging through accountability and quality in your work.

Tax Manager - Transfer Pricing - Compliance

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

Why Join KPMG as a Transfer Pricing Manager- 

Transfer Pricing is a rapidly expanding field within International Tax, and at KPMG, we're at the forefront of this exciting growth area. Our dedicated Transfer Pricing team is committed to helping multinational groups navigate the complexities of global transfer pricing compliance, including the preparation of master files, local files, TP returns, and benchmarking. We leverage our market-leading technology, structured processes, and a team of dedicated UK based TP compliance specialists to deliver exceptional results.

This is a unique opportunity to join a high-growth area within our business and contribute to a key strategic investment in our people. We are looking for talented Managers to join our UK TP Compliance practice. If you're passionate about Transfer Pricing and eager to join our specialist compliance team, we encourage you to explore this exciting career path with KPMG. 

What will you be doing?

This role involves working on a range of projects.

The work involves:

·       Lead global transfer pricing compliance projects where we prepare transfer pricing local files, master files and TP returns for clients across multiple jurisdictions.  This role involves leading on a range of compliance projects across a varied client base in both size of business and industry.

·       Developing and maintaining client relationships for global transfer pricing compliance projects

·       Project management in relation to the provision of our services

·       Performing/attending functional interviews with clients to understand activities and value drivers for our clients’ businesses to prepare transfer pricing analyses

·       Determining key industry features across varied industries that influence the pricing of transactions and preparing transfer pricing analyses

·       Prepare/review benchmarking analyses across industries and transaction types (TNMM and CUP)

·       Reviewing and documenting transfer pricing policies

·       Understand and implement KPMG’s transfer pricing technology for preparation of local files

·       Review transfer pricing local files using KPMG’s transfer pricing technology

·       Supporting clients with tax authority enquiries

·       Coordinating with KPMG’s transfer pricing, international tax, indirect tax and other teams across the business and across multiple jurisdictions on a range of topics relating to transfer pricing compliance

·       Coaching and developing junior members of the team

·       As part of the TP Compliance team actively contribute to leadership discussions and help to implement continuous improvement to processes within the team.

·       Lead or assist with business development and project scoping process as necessary for new global transfer pricing documentation proposals including preparing scope and fee quotes and presenting in client pitches/demos.

What will you need to do it?

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

Qualifications and experience:

·       Either a CTA, CA, ACA, ACCA qualification or attained a Bachelors or Masters degree in economics, finance, law, accounting or equivalent qualification.

·       At least 5 years of transfer

Our Transaction Services practice comprises approximately 500 people across the UK, organised to align to KPMG’s market orientated structure, and is at the heart of the Firm's agenda to increase its penetration of boardrooms and work with clients across the economic and transaction cycle. Our team works closely with colleagues across Deal Advisory as well as Tax, Audit and other Advisory teams; it is a multi-disciplinary and international environment that sits right at the heart of our One Firm agenda. We are recruiting Managers in our Private Equity, Financial Services, Corporates and Capital Markets teams across the UK to support the growth of our TS business.

Infrastructure is evolving: assets are smarter and better connected. The opportunities for exploiting technologies to drive value from infrastructure and assets have never been greater. Our Infrastructure Advisory Group (IAG) advises major public and private sector infrastructure and asset-intensive organisations across all sectors, including Natural Resources, Energy, Power, Utilities, Transport, Oil and Gas, Defence, Health and Education. We are strengthening our InfraTech capability to meet increasing demand from these organisations in support for how to use data, analytics and technology to unlock value from their assets and infrastructure. This is a fast-growing area offering exciting opportunities, building upon our global capabilities in Infrastructure, Asset Management and Data Analytics. We are seeking an ambitious and innovative professional who is passionate about infrastructure and technology to join our Asset Management Advisory (AMA) team, with the skills and desire to combine the two to drive improvements for our clients.

You will be responsible for helping grow and deliver our InfraTech business, working with client organisations and other KPMG teams to develop our offerings and value propositions. This is a client facing role for both business development and delivery, including stakeholder management and workshop facilitation.