Tax Director

Job description

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This exciting role is within our London Region Corporate Tax Advisory & Compliance team, based in our Canary Wharf office. 

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 business areas, 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

This exciting role is within our London region Corporate Tax Advisory & Compliance team, based in our CSQ office.  We work as a region which comprises 5 other offices. 

The successful candidate will be able to build strong relationships, develop junior staff, provide excellent client service and identify business development opportunities.  The candidate must have a proven track record of strong market presence, spotting opportunities and conversion into wins.

Responsibilities:

Be market facing with allocated clients and target organisations, particularly in the fast growth tech and entrepreneurial sectors

• Be actively involved with the targeting of new client acquisitions by working with wider tax and non-tax teams.
• Be actively involved with managing and tracking target activities and business development initiatives
• Liaising with the client service team and with colleagues in other tax disciplines as well as the audit and accounting discipline to provide a co-ordinated service to the client including managing and delivering tax compliance services
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with clients and identifying leads for new work
•  Ensuring that clients are kept up to date on developments within the corporate tax world that may affect their businesses
• Hold conversations with stakeholders in the markets and be capable of introducing relevant specialists from across the firm
• Lead by example with client relationships, technical quality and service delivery 
• Actively promote team and personal profile to internal networks in order to promote collaboration and increase internal leads 
• Being involved in business development and proposal activity which includes attending various networking events within and outside of KPMG
• Managing our engagement quality and risk processes and client financials
• Being a role model for KPMG’s values
• Managing teams, coaching and developing staff 

The Individual:

• 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 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 KMPG through the quality of work, knowledge and experience
• Qualified CTA or ACA/CA or equivalent
• Strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills