Transfer Pricing Assistant Manager: 104107

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

Why Join KPMG as a Transfer Pricing Assistant Manager within our Transfer Pricing Team based in the London region.

Recognised in the marketplace for our technical excellence – Transfer Pricing at KPMG is an integral part of the firm’s global community.

Our diverse team focuses on compliance and/or advisory services, providing sustainable tax advice to clients, that not only helps to deliver compliance, but also supports their wider commercial objectives.

The team is collaborative, with individuals based nationwide. We embraced hybrid and flexible working long before it became the norm! Our team has a mix of backgrounds and whatever your background we will give you the support, encouragement, and training to thrive at KPMG.

What will you be doing?

Working as a key member of the team to provide Transfer Pricing tax advice to a broad range of clients helping them to achieve their commercial objectives. This role involves working on a range of projects.

Audit Manager - Gibraltar

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax, Pensions & Legal, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.

As a firm we help our clients navigate their biggest issues and opportunities. We aim to be universally recognised as a great place for great people to do their best work – a firm known for our collaborative and inclusive culture. And we will take pride in driving lasting, positive change in society.

With offices in Gibraltar, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.

KPMG is one of the leading audit practices in the UK and Gibraltar whose success and reputation depends upon the quality and integrity of our services – and our people. If you join our audit team, you could benefit from increased amounts of training and education to keep you up to speed with current changes in audit regulation and accounting and auditing standards.

As an Audit Manager, you will be involved in all aspects of leading and delivering audit engagements, from planning through to completion on a broad spectrum of  clients. The role will include executive level client interaction and exposure to multiple clients on an annual basis, as well as daily tasks such as:

Tone & Culture

• Promoting a commitment to quality, including recognising the importance of legal and regulatory requirements, professional ethics, KPMG Core Values and code of conduct in my team(s)
• Responding to and implementing changes recommended by a regulator as directed by senior team members on engagement teams
• Promoting a collaborative culture encouraging constructive working relationships within the audit team, with specialists and across different team(s).

Quality

• Planning and execution of audit fieldwork and statutory reporting across a portfolio of engagements
• Project management of all aspects of audit including agreeing audit timelines, team briefings, and supervision and delivery of audit work
• Identifying, researching and helping to resolve complex audit issues
• Preparing engagement deliverables, building relationships with the audited entity staff and acting as an ambassador for the firm

Portfolio and Finance

• Budgeting and monitoring the financial performance of projects, focusing on optimising profitability
• Working on audit tenders and working as part of the relevant independence team on these tenders. Tasks may include reviewing global engagement records in Sentinel; analysing and categorising the records; contacting partners globally for engagement information; preparing data and drafting Independence reports; and liaising with the UK Ethics and Independence team
• You may also have the opportunity to work on specific audit related projects across the audit function     
• Actively participating with the audit partner/ director in the optimisation and rationalisation of our portfolio of audited entities e.g. through achieving exits or pricing / profitability targets

People

• Leading a field work team including supervising and coaching more junior members of staff to help them reach their full potential
• Keeping up to date with technical developments in audit quality, audit and accounting standards, and comply with latest quality

Technology is one of the KPMG’s priority investment areas – Solutions & Digital services the whole of the KPMG client side business portfolio through delivery of core technology and managed services capabilities, collaboration and innovation development services and building of our Alliances network. Our integrated capability teams design, build and operate flexible technology enabled solutions for clients to help them solve the most complex business problems and transform their operations. 

The Team:

Powered Enterprise is KPMG’s world-class accelerated Enterprise Business Transformation approach for cloud-based solutions that uses pre-designed back-office leading practices and KPMG’s six layer Target Operating Model. It enables clients to make better, faster decisions, resulting in a quicker implementation and a faster path to Return on Investment. This solution combines the breadth and scale of KPMG’s leading practice, capabilities and insight into a complete solution for an effective back-office.

The Powered Apps teams are communities of technology focussed professionals who work together to deliver KPMG Powered Enterprise though a standardised delivery model, which drives professional delivery to clients. The teams use their functional knowledge and experience (e.g. Finance, HR, Procurement), coupled with their expertise in the cloud applications (e.g. Oracle, Workday, Coupa) to lead and deliver client programmes, support pre-sales activities and develop improvement and extensions to Powered Enterprise. KPMG are growing their S&D - Powered Apps team to meet an ever increasing demand for our market leading services and are seeking IT management consultants with relevant expertise and experience.

The Role:

As the growth of our Powered HCM practise continues we are looking for Process Leads who have experience of configuring Oracle to join our team 

•    Developing lasting client relationships and actively building a network and range of experience to help address client needs

•    Provide compelling and well thought out solutions to problems of moderate complexity

•    Experience of implementing at least one module of the relevant cloud platform with Oracle, so you can bring your learnings to the client about what did (or didn’t!) work

•    Leading client facing meetings and facilitation of workshops with larger groups of client teams

•    Lead an offshore team to design, configure and test a module or process area to successful deployment for a client

•    Developing end to end solutions using the best of good industry practise combined with understanding the optionality available within the product.

The Person:

Our candidates should have strong commercial acumen, hunger to learn and develop and be able to thrive in a really fast paced working environment.

Candidates must be eligible, able to gain and retain National Security Vetting at the level of Security Check (SC).

•    Strong documentation, reporting and presentation skills

•    Well-developed analytical skills and the ability to provide clarity to complex issues, and synthesize large amounts of information

•    Experience in a functional and/or technical role in a business or systems delivery environment preferably in more than one sector

•    Experience producing project deliverables (business requirements, functional specs, configuration document, process flows, use cases, requirements traceability matrices etc.)

•    Strong Microsoft Office skills particularly Excel and PowerPoint

•    Strong interpersonal, team building, organisational and motivational skills

•    An awar

Job Title: Lead Software Engineer (Any language) - Manager

Base Location: Leeds based (Hybrid – 3 days per week in office) www.kpmg88careers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations

As a result of the work that we do, we require applicants to hold or be capable of obtaining UK National Security Vetting, the requirements for which could include but not be limited to having resided in the UK for at least the past 5 years and being a UK national or dual UK national.  Please note your application will not be taken forward if you cannot fulfil these requirements. 

The KPMG Technical Engineering function is a cornerstone of our business. We do work that matters to our local business and communities – supporting technical innovation and adoption of cutting edge solutions across the United Kingdom. This team will be responsible for delivering technology enabled outcomes for some of our clients most challenging business issues using modern and best in class engineering methodologies. We drive this transformation through the adoption of Cloud based technologies and have strategic relationships with Google, Microsoft among others. We have a technology agnostic view and select the right tool/language/cloud provider to achieve the best outcome for the client. 

The Opportunity

KPMG’s Deal Execution practice is looking for exceptional candidates for a Manager role with a People-focused specialism in deals & transformations to join the People in M&A Centre of Excellence.