Corporate Tax Assistant Manager

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Overview

This exciting role is within our Corporate Tax Team based in the South region, with a choice of base office in either Bristol or Cardiff. You’ll join a high performing team advising on a broad range of clients from privately owned businesses to some of the region’s largest and most complex organisations.

We are looking for a talented individual at Assistant Manager level to support our continued rapid growth. The successful candidate will thrive in a dynamic and challenging working environment, supported by a strong and ambitious leadership team.

You will work with a diverse portfolio of clients across UK listed, PE backed, inbound and family owned groups, and take on a variety of projects, including tax structuring, international expansion, operating model redesign, tax compliance and tax accounting.

The role will suit an Assistant Manager wanting to drive their tax career.

Role and Responsibilities: 

Working as a key member of the team to provide corporate tax advice to a broad range of clients helping them to achieve their commercial objectives. 

• Supporting the successful delivery of technically excellent advice including: tax structuring, compliance, governance, refinancing, legal structure optimisation, pre/post transaction reorganisations, tax authority enquiries and providing technical support to the wider corporate tax team.
• Liaising with specialists in other departments and overseas offices to oversee their input into tax advisory projects.
• Coaching and developing more junior members of the team.
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients and understanding of their business in order to create opportunities to help with the provision of tax and other services
• Supporting the preparation of proposals for new work, including preparing tender documents and presenting at client pitches
• Supporting Directors and Partners in business development activities
• Being a role model for KPMG’s values

Qualifications, Experience and Skills: 

• ACA, CA, CTA, ACCA or equivalent qualified with strong corporate tax and accounting knowledge 
• Ability to develop, coach and mentor staff, as well as manage stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal skills are required in addition to strong oral and written communication skills
• Well-developed analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice
• Pro-active in identifying and progressing business opportunities for the long-term benefit of both KPMG and the client
• Ability to multi-task – to manage a wide range of projects and relationships
• High level of drive and enthusiasm with a positive attitude
• Dedication to continuously develop technical knowledge
• Inquisitive with attention to detail

The Major Projects Advisory (MPA) practice sits in Customer, Operations, and Infrastructure (CO&I): one of seven super service lines across KPMG’s Advisory business.  Operating from all over the UK we do work those matters, serving the Country with diligence and expertise.

“PACE” (Programme Advisory and Capital Excellence) is part of KPMG’s Major Projects Advisory team – a multi-disciplinary team of cross-sector experts in complex project and programme delivery. We transform our clients’ delivery capability and partner with them to deliver faster, cheaper, greener, and better. As a recognised market leader, we are proud to partner with an impressive client base across both private and public sectors, delivering lasting results in several market sectors, namely:

KPMG’s Strategy & Performance Transformation team is looking for an exceptional Associate Director with a Healthcare and Life Sciences focus and experience of at least one of our core propositions; Growth Strategy, Deal Strategy and Operational Strategy. 

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 170 practitioners, working collaboratively with and orchestrating KPMG’s broad set of capabilities within our Deal Advisory business.

Within the Strategy & Performance Transformation team we have an established Healthcare and Life Sciences practice. We are seeking an Associate Director to join the team who is a professional, talented individual with a passion for identifying and creating innovative solutions for clients. 

In Healthcare and Life Sciences we focus on Commercial Strategy, which includes, for example, launch and commercialisation strategy and transformation, pricing and market access, portfolio strategy, competitive strategy and LoE strategy. In terms of inorganic growth, we work both buy side and sell side, supporting our clients throughout the life cycle of a transaction including target identification, red flag analysis, commercial due diligence, business planning etc.

As a team, we are a group of bright committed individuals who are passionate about delivering fantastic client work, developing the team around us and having fun both inside and outside of work.

The Team
KPMG UK’s Infrastructure Advisory Group (IAG) is a team of roughly 400 professionals and is widely recognised as one of the world’s leading financial and commercial advisers in the infrastructure sector. IAG has locations in London, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leeds and Manchester, but is operated on a national basis. Due to the location of team members you will be working with, this role can be based in London or Birmingham.

Our Asset Management Advisory (AMA) team brings together individuals with deep sector expertise and experience implementing asset management and infrastructure solutions to solve challenges across a range of sectors. We work with major public and private sector entities, principally those with major capital and infrastructure commitments in Transport (highways and rail), Defence, Power & Utilities, Telecoms and Energy Transition. This is a fast-growing area offering exciting opportunities building upon a global capability in Asset Management.

We are seeking an industry-leading Asset Management professional to become part of our team in KPMG UK supporting all AMA activity across the business including Operating Model Transformation, Strategy and Planning, Resilience, Estates Management, Assurance and internal audit, with a specific focus on supporting our oil and gas clients navigate the energy transition.

Services provided by the AMA Team include:

• Asset organisation and operating model transformation
• Analytics and asset management improvement programmes
• Asset investment strategy development and planning
• Infrastructure resilience and adaptation including value-based frameworks
• Assurance and internal audit of infrastructure activities, data and reports