Manager - People in M&A - Deal Execution

Base Location: Manchester, London or Birmingham 

Why Join KPMG as a Manager - People in M&A (Deal Execution)?

The Deal Execution 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 105 practitioners, working collaboratively with and orchestrating KPMG’s broad set of capabilities within our Advisory business, and are focused on continually enhancing value for clients across the deal and economic cycle. Our teams comprise of specialists capable of helping clients right through from conceptual thinking of buying a business to turning their business around in times of difficulty.

The People in M&A Centre of Excellence deals with all aspects of the employee journey in M&A, as well as leveraging our experience to enact transformational change outside of a deal context. From early-stage strategy development and organisational design for carve-outs, to synergy cases and cost benefits, employee experience and corporate culture, employee transfer, through to the conception, development and management of effective transformational solutions to help an organisation achieve its ambitions and objectives. We work together to develop solutions to the issues our clients may face and understand the financial benefits or risks that may be present from a people perspective. Above all, we are driven by a passion to help our clients execute transactions and transformational change efficiently, maximising value through people and ensuring a smooth people transition.

What will you be doing?

In this role, you will work on and lead projects by working closely alongside senior members of the team, who will provide guidance and insight into the deal environment, enabling you to build your deals knowledge and further develop your people, OD, strategy and HR skills. You will also leverage your change and consulting skillset to deliver top-tier transformational change for clients outside of a deal context.

This exciting role is within our Corporate Tax Team based in the Manchester office (other locations considered). As part of a high performing team you will work with a diverse portfolio of large clients across UK listed, PE-backed, inbound and family-owned groups, and take on a variety of projects, tax structuring and international expansion.

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

Role: Manager-Insight Transformation, Research & Analytics

Location: Any UK, within occasional commuting distance from London, Leeds or Manchester

Why Join KPMG as a Manager-Insight Transformation, Research & Analytics?

This role sits in the Insight team, within the Customer & Ops practice at KPMG.

The team is responsible for capturing, organising and analysing customer data signals to help our clients drive growth through a better understanding of their customers, to drive impact and improve the reputation and efficiency of the Insight function within a business. The Insight team does this through 2 propositions: -

Voice of Customer (VoC): Programmes that continuously capture, analyse and act on customer feedback to drive enterprise decision=making.

Our role is to design, implement and deliver these programmes-Insight Transformation: Helping clients leverage AI to transform how they operate and activate insight to improve performance and effectiveness.

What will you be doing?

As a Manager within the Customer team, and specifically the Insight team, the candidate will be responsible for-Helping to translate the Insight Transformation proposition into structured, repeatable programmes and delivery playbooks that can be deployed consistently across clients

• Supporting business development by contributing to proposals, solution design, scoping and costing for Insight Transformation engagements
• Designing futurestate insight operating models (processes, governance, roles, data/tech enablers) for client insight functions.
• Working with clients to help build transformation roadmaps that sequence people, process, data, technology and change activities into a coherent delivery plan
• Planning and running insightfunction diagnostics (interviews, documentation review, maturity assessments) and synthesising findings into prioritised recommendations.
• Developing and continuously improving internal methods, templates and reusable assets so the Future of Insight proposition can be delivered at scale.
• Leading onshore and offshore teams to deliver high quality client engagements.
• Owning responsibility for the financial management of client engagements
• Acting as a role model to upskill junior and non-insight trained team members
• Developing client relationships to enhance the reputation of KPMG as an advisor of choice and identify further client opportunities in the Customer & Operations team.

What will you need to do it?

• Background in strategy/transformation consulting, including organisational design
• Strong research and analytics capability (survey design, sampling, methodology, data analysis, project management
• Proven project management skills, handling multiple workstreams within complex programmes.
• Experience leading and motivating teams to deliver highquality outputs on time and within budget.
• Ability to derive insights from data and communicate them clearly through compelling storytelling and visualisation.
• Familiarity with VOC tools (e.g. Medallia, Qualtrics, Power BI) and their ongoing management
• Solutions-focused mindset with strong presentation and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Confident in providing thought leadership and advising clients on strategic direction.
• Understanding of AI applications in insight generation and VOC optimisation.
• Experience in business development, including proposal design and costing

Personal Attributes

Passion for insight and data-driven decision-making AI first mindset, with interest in promoting and embedding AI across teams</

At KPMG, our Values define who we are and the way we do business. As a leading professional services firm, we know that our strength and capability come from our people: their different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds.

Deal Advisory Tax is a dynamic and successful area of KPMG’s Tax & Legal business.  We have an inclusive and collaborative leadership strategy and are making bold changes to our culture and how we work.  A constantly changing and high-profile field, we work in a fast-paced, challenging and rewarding environment, and can offer a broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people.

The KPMG real estate 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.  

For the right candidates, there are huge opportunities to be part of an expanding business and to progress quickly as the team grows. The work is interesting and diverse, getting involved with cutting edge developments and working with some of the best-known real estate and infrastructure firms as well as mid-size and new market entrants and supporting their business as they rapidly grow.

The team is diverse and collaborative, with individuals based across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Edinburgh, we embraced hybrid and flexible working long before it became the norm!

Our team has a mix of backgrounds, people who have spent their entire career in professional services, or those with tax, legal, accounting, and regulatory backgrounds as well as a number of people who have joined from industry and bring real practical experience to the way we can help clients. Whatever your background we will give you the support, encouragement, and training to thrive at KPMG.

Successful candidates will have the opportunity to specialise in real estate taxes.

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

 
The Responsibilities:
The role involves a mixture of both compliance and advisory responsibilities, with specific duties including:

• Developing and maintaining a high level of technical knowledge across real estate taxes and related areas including REITs.
• Supporting the management of client relationships and projects and becoming a focal point of contact for clients within real estate taxes.
• Understanding our client's business and working with teams across KPMG to identify areas for the provision of real estate tax and other services.
• Developing and advising on cutting edge client propositions.
• Being involved in business development and proposal activity.
• Collaborating with KPMG teams across the UK and globally to provide the highest quality real estate tax support to our clients.
• Participating in the development of new client propositions, which will include working with technology teams to develop new solutions, taking these to market and building the delivery model to ensure the highest quality services are provided.
• Being an advocate for KPMG and the real estate tax team and helping us grow the business through the delivery of relevant and high-quality services to our clients.

The Person:  

The successful candidates are likely to have some or all of the following skills:

• Evidence of deep technical ability relating to tax or financial services – e.g., this might be a qualification in tax, audit, finance, law, regulation, or significant practical experience gained in an industry role.
• Practical experience of dealing with real estate taxes within a Financial Services context – candidates with industry or professional services experience.
• An understanding of financial markets, participants, investors (e.g., property rental businesses, hotels, institutional, investors, custodians, asset managers, private equity etc) and products.
• Good knowledge of Corporation Tax compliance, CIR, Anti-hybrids, REITs., QIPS.
• Excellent project management, delegation/coaching and client facing delivery skills.
• Familiarity of and enthusiasm to work with emerging technologies and ability to combine this knowledge with evolving tax regulations.
• Ability to take advantage of new tax developments and create client propositio