Director - Alternatives

Job description

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.

From our inclusive leadership strategy to our inclusion, diversity and social equality targets – we’re making bold changes to who we are and what we do. Be part of it.

Our clients include UK headquartered businesses and inbound groups across a range of sectors. 

Our work in the tax advisory space includes supporting clients with business and fiscal change. This can include advising on new jurisdiction entry, the development of new fund structures and business areas, carry and co-investment structures, business reorganisations, tax authority enquiries, pre/post transaction reorganisations, refinancing, cash repatriation, interest deductibility and the impact global fiscal change (e.g. BEPS Pillar 2).

We work as a hybrid team where we get together in the office or at client sites at least twice a week to collaborate and learn together, with flexibility over how you spend the rest of your time. 

The role:

We are looking for a Tax Director to join our team. The individual would lead a variety of UK corporation tax and international tax projects for clients in a variety of sectors.

Key responsibilities:

• Be market facing, drive sales on allocated clients and target organisations
• Hold and control high level conversations with senior stakeholders in the markets and be capable of introducing relevant specialists from across the firm
• Lead by example with client relationships, technical quality, service delivery and commercially
• Actively promote team and personal profile to internal networks in order to promote collaboration and increase internal leads  
• Take lead on design and delivery of proposals for new business opportunities
• Play a key role in people development activities (coaching / mentoring) for less experienced team members
• Identify key client issues that represent opportunities for other KPMG teams to capitalise on and play active role in introductions.

The individual:

• Qualified CTA or ACA/CA or equivalent
• Successful track record of new business origination within International Tax projects through both internal and external activities
• Excellent commercially
• Display technical strength in our specialist markets outlined above 
• Sustains a high level of drive, shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude that translates across the team
• Inspirational leader 
• Displays an inclusive, collaborative approach and operates in an inspirational & respectful manner with colleagues, clients and the wider community
• Brings insight and effectively applies knowledge to business and client problems
• Communicates with impact, in a way that is open, honest, consistent and clear
• Builds the reputation of KPMG through the quality of work, knowledge and experience
• Strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills

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