Director - Tax Transformation

Location: Aberdeen, Birmingham & Other locations

Capability: Tax & Law

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Location: Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Gibraltar, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Plymouth, Reading, South Coast - Southampton, Watford

Capability: Tax & Law

Experience Level: Director

Type: Full Time or Part Time

Service Line: Global Comp & Trans

Contract type: Permanent

Job description

At KPMG we have re-imagined careers in Global Compliance & Transformation (GCT). A key focus for KPMG’s GCT team is to help multinational groups and financial services clients manage their global tax compliance, reporting and statutory accounting obligations, through outsourcing, co-sourcing, transformation and technology. 

 

Our clients leverage KPMG’s compliance and transformation expertise and technology to drive better visibility, greater efficiency and improved risk management across their organisation.  Ultimately we prepare groups for the future of digital compliance helping them develop a sustainable, technology- enabled and holistic future state operating model.  

 

We are winning new clients and are rapidly growing our team as a result of these investments and successes. As part of an established KPMG network of expert teams and delivery centres, you will have a fantastic opportunity to experience the global nature of these services. Delivery is underpinned by our innovative KPMG Digital Gateway platform. This is an exciting time to be part of our GCT team at KPMG where reimagining tax is a strategic priority for our UK and Global business.  We have a diverse client base, from mid-market to FTSE listed groups, from public sector to real estate to financial services. The role involves working on clients of all sizes and across a wide range of sectors.   

 

We are looking for talented Directors to join us with experience in a broad range of areas including: 

  • Deep tax compliance, automation and reporting expertise, particularly around indirect taxes, including EMEA compliance 

  • Experience of end-to-end finance processes (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Record-to-report) and their integration with tax 

  • Experience advising on appropriate tax technology to support compliance and reporting processes 

  • Deep tax technology implementation experience, including requirements gathering from a tax, IT & User Interface perspective, and creating and reviewing design documentation 

  • Deep tax transformation experience, including tax governance, process design and improvement 

  • Project management  

  • Client and engagement management 

 

In addition to these key areas, other desirable but not essential skills include: 

  • ERP implementation experience 

  • Data, data bases, data transmission and data transformation including an understanding of structured query language (SQL) 

  • Analysing large volumes of data 

  • Designing cloud-based practical applications from a tax perspective 

  • Acting as a functionality translator, being the primary liaison between technology teams and tax teams 

 

Roles & Responsibilities: 

  • Leading the overall delivery of tax transformation and technology projects, often as part of a wider finance transformation program 

  • Helping clients to design, build and deploy automation solutions which are designed for Tax 

  • Supporting our clients in designing systems which address tax requirements in different countries in the optimal way 

  • Working together with Tax Transformation and GCT colleagues as well as other teams in KPMG such as Consulting 

  • Helping clients develop robust global governance and control frameworks 

  • Develop our service offerings and service delivery models 

  • Establishing and maintaining strong client relationships with our clients 

  • Performance manage Senior Managers and Managers and oversee the output from offshore resource in order to deliver client projects; 

  • Identify opportunities to provide additional services that the client may need and liaise with subject specialists 

  • Coaching and technical support for other team members 

  • Follow KPMG best practice and policy. 

 

Qualifications and Skills: 

  • Deep experience of technology and automation to drive efficiency, risk management and value 

  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to quickly adapt to a range of situations and audiences from both written and oral perspective 

  • Strong attention to detail, to enable you to review complex technical problems, whilst maintaining an overall strategic and customer service focused perspective, for all deliverables we produce for our clients 

  • Excellent internal networking skills with the ability to confidently and knowledgably communicate with other Managers, Senior Managers, Directors and Partners within our professional services environment 

  • Strong business development and client facing skills with a proven history of being able to identify opportunities and convert them to commercial projects 

  • Excellent project management skills and an ability to manage your own workload, as well as the workloads of others in your team. 

 

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The issues surrounding tax and legal services are constantly evolving, both locally and globally. Which is why you'll find life at KPMG both intellectually stimulating and rewarding. There's also the scale and breadth of what we do – our services span specialisms such as Corporate and Indirect Tax; Expatriate and Private Client Personal Tax compliance and advice; and KPMG Law.

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