The KPMG financial services corporate 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.  Our team has a diverse client and target base spanning the Financial Services sector - providing services to traditional asset managers and financial services institutions, private equity funds, alternative investors, the real estate sector, wealth and hedge asset managers, UK pension funds and global institutional investors. 

The role is in our Alternatives, Asset Management tax team, with a particular focus on our Private Equity and Credit fund client base. 

We are looking for a candidate with a particular interest in providing clients with corporate and income tax advisory and compliance services, ideally with experience in the Alternative funds market sector.

The successful candidate will be a self-starter with a good level of core corporate tax technical or income tax knowledge and a confident outward facing skillset willing to invest time and effort in the marketplace.

We would be happy to have an informal chat with you to discuss opportunities in more detail.

The Responsibilities

The role involves a mix of tax advisory services and compliance management. This will include:

• Developing and leading client relationships and the KPMG team (including where relevant the wider client service team).
• Understanding the client's business and working with the team to identify areas for the provision of tax and other services.
• Ownership of the provision of tax advice on a wide range of projects, undertaking detailed technical research.
• Where relevant, taking responsibility for the finalised deliverables in the tax compliance process (partnership tax returns, corporation tax returns and investor reports) and undertaking tax accounting work to assist clients with their statutory reporting process.
• Working with Senior team members to support and help junior team members develop their technical and soft skills.
• Involvement in business development activity, including developing and advising on cutting-edge client propositions.
• Ensuring all risk procedures are adhered to.

The Person

The successful candidate will have the following skills:

• Qualified CTA or ACA/CA or equivalent.
• Strong knowledge of UK corporate tax or income tax and an awareness of other tax and accounting areas. Previous experience within the financial services sector would be an advantage but is not a requirement.
• Strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills.
• High level analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice.
• Ability to work as part of a multifunctional team.
• Strong task and team management skills.
• Ability to build client relationships.
• Good computational and excel skills.
• Good technology skills - experience of Alphatax would be advantageous but not essential

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