As a Corporate Tax Team Senior Manager, you will be based in our vibrant Leeds office. Our Corporate Tax practice is experiencing significant expansion, creating unparalleled opportunities for Senior Managers to lead high-profile projects and shape the future of our service offerings. You'll be integrated into a collaborative, intellectually curious, and high-performing team that values knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and celebrates collective success. You will benefit from direct mentorship and strategic guidance from our strong and ambitious leadership team, committed to your professional development and career advancement...

Join KPMG's Corporate Finance practice to originate and deliver mid-market mergers and acquisitions transactions in the technology, media and telecommunications sector, helping clients achieve strategic buying and selling objectives. You will manage transactions from initial strategic review through to completion, acting as a trusted day-to-day contact for clients and coordinating high-quality deal execution. Working with Associate Directors, Directors and Partners, you will lead project teams, shape marketing and pitch materials, manage commercial delivery and contribute to business development. This opportunity offers an experienced corporate finance professional the scope to deepen sector expertise, build senior client relationships and contribute to the growth of an ambitious team with a strong record of completing successful deals. 

Transfer Pricing

Grade: C

Job Title: Transfer Pricing Manager specialising in Transfer Pricing Audit

Recognised in the marketplace for our technical excellence, Transfer Pricing at KPMG is an integral part of the firm’s global community. Our firm is also renowned for its technical excellence in Audit, delivering high‑quality, rigorous audit work underpinned by strong analytical capability and professional scepticism. KPMG’s specialist Transfer Pricing Audit team sits within the firm’s national transfer pricing team and audits the transfer pricing arrangements of a range of businesses to identify transfer pricing risks.

Our team works on a broad range of audits from FTSE100 Group reporting engagements to UK statutory audits.

The KPMG specialist audit team have high levels of technical expertise and team members below partner and director work closely with the partners and directors in the team. There is extensive on the job coaching as well as more regular technical training sessions. The nature of the work provides an ideal environment for team members to rapidly increase their technical skills seeing a wide variety of audits. 

The team is a virtual team and there is the ability to work from any location.

The Responsibilities/Job Description

This role involves working on a range of audits to test whether the tax on the transfer pricing arrangements materially complies with the arm’s length principle as set out in the UK Transfer Pricing legislation.

Day to day, the work involves:

• Managing various transfer pricing audits and leading the day-to-day transfer pricing audit processes
• Coordinating with KPMG's Audit and Tax Audit teams on a range of audits
• Acting as the main point of contact for audit entity management teams
• Speaking to Audit Entities to obtain the facts
• Coaching and developing junior team members which will also include delivering training sessions and providing on-the-job coaching on a regular basis
• Ensuring timely reporting to senior management
• Actively contributing to sharing transfer pricing audit knowledge to the transfer pricing advisory team

The Person

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

• Either a CTA, CA, ACA, ACCA or attained a Bachelors or Masters degree in economics, finance, law, accounting or equivalent qualification
• Transfer pricing experience: preferably including experience of transfer pricing audits, policy setting, tax authority enquiries/Advance Pricing Agreements, operational transfer pricing, financing transfer pricing, project management and managing junior team members; or significant audit experience  
• Sound judgement and an enquiring mind, including the ability to objectively assess and challenge management’s assumptions and exercise professional scepticism
• Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
• High level of drive and enthusiasm with a positive attitude
• Keen ability and willingness to keep up to date technically and develop the technical ability of the team below you
• Ability to work autonomously and to take initiative as appropriate
• Highly organised with excellent communication and project management skills

oin KPMG's Corporate Finance team in the Midlands and help clients achieve their strategic goals through the successful purchase or sale of businesses. You will manage mid-market mergers and acquisitions engagements from initial strategic review through to completion, working with corporate, private equity and financial services clients across a range of sectors. As a trusted day-to-day contact, you will lead high-quality deal execution, guide junior colleagues and contribute to winning new work. This opportunity offers broad transaction exposure, meaningful client responsibility and the chance to develop specialist expertise within an ambitious, growing team.