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The Legal Services Team sits within KPMG Tax. Its establishment flows naturally from KPMG’s long history of successfully delivering multidisciplinary services to clients. Its vision is to be the legal adviser of choice for KPMG’s clients when it comes to their people, corporate structures, internal arrangements, regulatory requirements and disputes with HMRC.



Core corporate, commercial and employment law teams, and a market leading tax litigation team, are already in place. Over the next few years, these teams will grow and Legal Services will expand into other areas of law that fit within its vision and the needs of KPMG’s clients.




What KPMG Legal Services is looking for from its lawyers:



• Team players who enjoy working with people from different backgrounds and disciplines
• Approachable people who are keen to develop personally and professionally, and to assist with the development of junior team members
• Lawyers with a passion for the law
• Intellectually curious, open-minded and analytical people, with an eye for detail and pride in their work
• Driven and proactive professionals who deliver a great service to their clients
• Relationship builders who can spot and develop new opportunities both within the KPMG network and externally
• Flexible people who are able to deal with a fluid, changing work environment


Why you might want to join KPMG Legal Services:



• You can see the advantages of professional advice being provided within a multidisciplinary team
• You are ambitious and perceive the wealth of opportunities presented by a start-up legal practice in a leading global professional services firm
• You want the opportunity to develop client relationships and KPMG’s legal services capabilities
• You are excited by the idea of being a founding member of a team that will grow significantly
• You want to broaden your experience and become a more rounded professional
• You want to achieve a sustainable work-life balance



Role and Responsibilities:



Our Manchester Legal Services business was established over 5 years ago. We now enter a new phase of growth and require a high calibre Corporate lawyer to join the team.



• Early Legal Input into Tax Advice – providing our clients with tax advice that has already been reviewed by lawyers
• Implementation of Tax Advice – providing our clients with a simple and cost-effective way of successfully implementing our tax advice
• Review and Rectification of Implementations – reviewing existing structures and helping clients preserve value by rectifying inadequate implementations and operation
• Unwinding Structures – unwinding defunct or unwanted structures
• Mergers & Acquisitions – primarily deal advice on both sides of a transaction including Corporate law advice, guidance, implementation, regulatory and applicability.



Experience Required:



The applicant will be a corporate lawyer with a good range of experience in areas of law such as structuring and reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, funds, debt listings and intra-group financing arrangements, corporate governance, commercial arrangements, share investments and/or the implementation of employee incentive arrangements.



The applicant must have a high level of technical knowledge with regards to UK corporate and contract law. Familiarity with partnership, trust, regulatory, banking and/or insolvency law would be helpful. In addition, a successful applicant will have the ability to get up to speed quickly on esoteric areas and be keen to continue developing his/her legal skills and engage in new areas of work.



The applicant must be able to demonstrate his/her experience on transactions (while ensuring that other senior members of the team are kept informed and involved at appropriate times), and to supervise and develop more junior members of the team. Strong project management skills are a must.



The applicant should have good experience of coordinating the provision of advice and the production of complex and interrelated legal agreements and documentation by advisers in several jurisdictions. While consulting appropriately on difficult issues, he/she must be able to deliver robust and appropriate legal advice and exercise sound judgement.



The successful applicant will have significant experience of working with demanding clients across a wide spectrum of size and activities, and will be expert at service delivery. He/she must be able to demonstrate sound client relationship and business development skills, and a keenness to develop these skills further. The successful applicant will be expected to take responsibility for servicing and building part of the existing business of the team. The successful applicant will help promote the team’s work through participating in team and firm events, giving internal and external presentations, and producing expert articles for publication.



Education and qualifications:



It is expected that the successful applicant will be a UK-qualified solicitor with a minimum of 4 years’ PQE experience, which should have been gained in the UK at a reputable firm (but applicants with other suitable experience will also be considered). Strong academic, technical, drafting and personal skills are essential.

Roles and Responsibilities


The role is for an assistant manager and will be supporting the development and
growth of our Legal Operations and Transformation Services (LOTS) practice.


Qualifications and Skills


— Provide subject matter expertise and industry insights to our clients undergoing legal
transformation


— Support and contribute to the development of go-to-market strategies, collateral, methodologies and
alliance partner relationships


— Contribute to and lead workstreams within complex, multi-national engagements for our clients,
comprising of multi-disciplinary teams


— Taking ownership of micro service offerings as they develop and taking an active role
in determining their direction and focus


— Acting as the conduit between some of our services internally; (e.g. Procurement, Finance Transformation,
CIO Advisory, Risk Consulting, Legal, People and Change etc.) to be able to co-ordinate multi-disciplinary solutions and teams

This is a new role and there is huge opportunity for a candidate to come in, make a big impact on the function and shape the role.




The role will report directly into the Head of Legal Operations and Transformation Services. The primary objective will be to support them to help shape and grow service offerings and supporting methodologies within the Practice.


As the team and business grows, the candidate will be expected to contribute to the development of people and culture within the team, ensuring continuous development and support for more junior members.

The candidate will also be expected to support with activities related to business development, marketing and communications and collateral development to feed in to the wider LOTS business.


Candidates will be expected to have a strong track record at engaging with and managing stakeholders across different seniorities and industries.

Candidates will need to manage both internal and external stakeholders self-sufficiently as part of on-going engagements and through business and strategic development.


This role will assist in the growth and development of the LOTS practice, and Legal Services as a whole by extension.

The successful candidate will contribute to the growth and development of the practice and service offerings in LOTS. The candidate will be responsible adhering to KPMG standards regarding risk and quality of their work and the work performed by their team within workstreams they oversee.

Experience and Background


— Experience in running workstreams or discrete programmes self-sufficiently


— High quality written and verbal communication skills


— Leading and facilitating stakeholder workshops to achieve desired outcomes


— Experience in conducting assessment, gap analysis and road mapping exercises


Desirable


— Understanding of legal, risk and compliance issues facing organisations


— Understanding of drivers, risks and opportunities facing "back office" functions and their drive towards digitisation


— Experience supporting technology implementations (business analysis, change management, configurations )

Experience in managing and leading business development activities (such as client meetings, proposals and marketing materials)


— Experience of in-house legal functions desirable but not essential


— A project management qualification would be desirable but not essential

KPMG's Tax practice is a dynamic and successful area of our business. A constantly changing and increasingly high-profile field, Tax can offer a surprisingly broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people.

Working in the Corporate Tax department at KPMG will give you the opportunity to develop relationships with clients as you help manage the amount of corporation tax they need to pay. This involves working with clients to produce complex tax computations and returns for HM Revenue & Customs, giving advice on corporate planning and restructuring projects and finding ways to reduce their effective rate of tax.

Why KPMG?

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 diversity and inclusion targets – we’re making bold changes to who we are and what we do. Be part of it.

Financial Sector: Insurance Tax Manager

The Department

The Insurance tax team, part of the wider FS tax team in KPMG, is a group of around 25 tax professionals of all grades, including 3 partners and 3 directors. The team is spread across 3 sites – London, Bristol and Edinburgh. The team works as a national team and location does not dictate client allocation.

Our business covers the gamut of insurance clients, including major UK-based insurers, international insurance groups, life insurers, pension product and other specialist providers, and brokers.

The core insurance team provides mainly corporate tax advisory and M&A services, and facilitates the provision of corporate tax compliance services, as well as tax advisory services covering the full range of non-corporate taxes. We are generally the main point of contact for the client for all taxes.

The Opportunities

The extent of change affecting the Insurance sector has raised enormous opportunities and significant challenges for KPMG. Regulatory and legislative change, as well as changes in the underlying market climate (appetite to claim, claimant fraud, risk profile change, technology impact) are driving insurance companies to embrace transformational change both to internal systems and to client facing products and operations. There are significant opportunities around these changes, often not tax driven, but which have tax impact where we can contribute positively for our clients.

Responsibilities:

Work can involve general insurance, life assurance, brokerage and Lloyds clients, and may involve any aspects of corporate tax, including product taxes, and wider cross-discipline projects.

The role is a national role, and could be based in London, Bristol or Edinburgh at one of our three insurance hubs.

The successful candidate should have a strong desire to be a dynamic part of an active insurance tax team.

The Individual:

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate:

- Good knowledge of UK corporate tax;
- Possession of sound judgement, including the ability to identify and evaluate risk issues, and knowing when to involve others;
- A track record of leading projects, with a focus on accountability, high quality and timely delivery;
- Commitment to cross site and cross skillset working where needed;
- Ability to communicate effectively at all levels (internally and externally) and be a team player; strong interpersonal skills are required in addition to strong oral and written communication skills.
- High level analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice; ability to apply knowledge of fundamental tax principles in identifying potential technical issues and opportunities;
- Adaptability and dynamism;
- Ability to multi-task and be organised;
- Experience of delegating effectively;
- Desire to coach and develop more junior members of the team;
- A strong desire to gain and continually improve his/her knowledge of the insurance market, insurance products, and insurance-related taxes;
Some or all of the following would also be beneficial, but not essential for the successful candidates:
- Knowledge and experience in relation to insurance groups, including experience in all or some of the following fields: life insurance tax, general insurance tax, tax for Lloyds groups, and tax for insurance brokers;
- Knowledge of tax for specific insurance-related products, for example in relation to the chargeable events regime and pensions.

Additional Info/Qualifications:

- Chartered Tax and/or Chartered Accountancy and/or equivalent legal/HMRC/international qualification is essential.

We recognise that as individuals, we each have particular needs and that one size doesn’t fit all, when it comes to how, when and where you work. That’s why we’re proud to offer our colleagues agile working options. We believe in putting you at the centre of your career – KPMG will offer the training, development and stimulating work environment to help you get to where your career ambitions are. That’s why we introduced ‘Our Deal’ – it’s our way of saying ‘thank you’ for bringing your best to work. As part of ‘Our Deal’, you’ll benefit from a range of rewards from secondment opportunities and preferential banking services to a day off on your birthday and have open, honest conversations about your career development.

The Legal Services Team sits within KPMG Tax. Its establishment flows naturally from KPMG’s long history of successfully delivering multidisciplinary services to clients. Its vision is to be the legal adviser of choice for KPMG’s clients when it comes to their people, corporate structures, internal arrangements, regulatory requirements and disputes with HMRC.


Core corporate, commercial and employment law teams, and a market leading tax litigation team, are already in place. Over the next few years, these teams will grow and Legal Services will expand into other areas of law that fit within its vision and the needs of KPMG’s clients.



Role and Responsibilities:


• Early Legal Input into Tax Advice – providing our clients with tax advice that has already been reviewed by lawyers
• Implementation of Tax Advice – providing our clients with a simple and cost-effective way of successfully implementing our tax advice
• Review and Rectification of Implementations – reviewing existing structures and helping clients preserve value by rectifying inadequate implementations and operation
• Unwinding Structures – unwinding defunct or unwanted structures
• Mergers & Acquisitions – primarily deal advice on both sides of a transaction including
Corporate law advice, guidance, implementation, regulatory and applicability.


Skills, Qualifications and Experience:


The applicant must be a corporate lawyer with a minimum of 3 years PQE
The applicant must demonstrate a experience in areas of UK law including structuring and reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, funds, debt listings and intra-group
financing arrangements, corporate governance, commercial arrangements, share investments and/or the implementation of employee incentive arrangements.
The applicant must have a high level of technical knowledge with regards to UK corporate and contract law.
The applicant must be able to demonstrate his/her experience on transactions
The applicant must have good experience of coordinating the provision of advice and the production of complex and interrelated legal agreements and documentation by advisers in several
jurisdictions.
The successful applicant must have significant experience of working with demanding clients across a wide spectrum of size and activities, and will be expert at service delivery.
The applicant must have strong academic, technical, drafting skills.


Opening date 25/10/19

Closing date 25/11/19


Competitive salary plus negotiable bonus and benefits