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**This role can be based in Glasgow, Birmingham or Manchester**


The Team

At KPMG we have re-imagined careers in corporate tax compliance. Our centralised tax compliance services are delivered by dedicated corporate tax compliance specialists utilising our cutting edge technology platform. We are winning new clients and are growing our team as a result of these successes. This is an exciting time to be part of the corporate tax compliance team at KPMG.

We are looking for a talented Senior Manager with UK corporate tax experience specifically in relation to the insurance industry to join us in either Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff or as a remote worker.

The Role

You will be able to demonstrate exceptional tax compliance skills, the ability to work to tight deadlines and produce a first class product ready for issue to our clients. This will involve working closely with tax professionals based in all of KPMG’s UK offices and our partners in other countries, to deliver a seamless service to our clients.

The Managed Services Team has a diverse client base, from mid-market to FTSE listed groups, from public sector to real estate to financial services. We are growing our team of specialists due to a number of exciting wins, and further opportunities exist to expand the team.
In addition to delivering corporate tax compliance services there are opportunities to be involved in the development of our innovative technology solutions and also to participate in client demonstrations and other aspects of business development.

With our technology enabled solutions our compliance specialists can focus on technical excellence, opportunity spotting and managing the compliance relationship with clients.
We are offering both full time and part time roles with flexible working arrangements which include, early or late starts to fit around other commitments, shorter working days etc. We would be happy to discuss your own requirements and our range of flexible working arrangements in more detail, should that be of interest.

Roles & Responsibilities


- Maintain a portfolio of clients and take responsibility for ensuring their tax computations are prepared to a high standard, on a timely basis and finalised and submitted to HMRC within agreed deadlines.
- Work with the client directly to understand the requirements at the start of each compliance cycle including potential visits to clients/ local offices when appropriate.
- Identify and resolve technical issues, preparing technical analysis and involving specialists as appropriate to prepare or review analysis.
- Group Reporting and Tax accounting disclosures (FRS101, FRS102, IFRS)
- 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.
The Person

Qualifications and skills

We welcome applications from those qualified by experience, as well as ATT / CTA / ACA or equivalent qualifications.

Knowledge and Experience

- Experience of review of corporate tax computations and returns, specific insurance sector experience is required.
- Ability to identify and resolve technical issues, or escalate as appropriate.
- Experience of specific technical areas including complex capital versus revenue treatment; pension scheme and share scheme adjustments; group relief; basic transfer pricing; tax accounting for single entities and groups.
- Experience of insurance specific technical areas both general and life insurance including technical provisions and appropriate amounts, reinsurance, non-technical accounts, Lloyds corporate members and section 400 adjustments
- Experience of technical areas including controlled foreign companies and corporate interest restriction.
- Strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills.
- Excellent team work and organisational skills, including monitoring timetables and budgets.
- Proficient user of Alphatax (or similar)

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax & 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.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. 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.

Gatwick Region Tax Business
Within the London Region Tax Business we would with a very wide range of clients, from fast growth early stage companies and private equity portfolio investments through to very large privately owned businesses, AIM and the smaller end of the FTSE listed businesses. The diversity of clients and the sectors in which they operate is huge.
Our Gatwick Region Tax Business operates as a single regional business, which is served from offices in London, Milton Keynes, Watford, Cambridge and Norwich. Due to sustained growth and also global investment into our Private Enterprise focused business, we are recruiting to grow our senior market facing tax team in each of these offices.

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 diversity and inclusion targets – we’re making bold changes to who we are and what we do. Be part of it.
We have a significant growth plan over the next three years and in order to support this we are looking to recruit motivated individuals with a commercial edge who are seeking a real challenge, at Director or Associate Partner level across our tax & legal national markets business, to build on our successes to date and help us achieve our growth targets.

Joining KPMG means joining a talented team of exceptional colleagues who bring innovative thoughts and a natural curiosity to the work they do each day. No one type of person succeeds at KPMG; a diverse business requires diverse personalities, characters and perspectives. There really is a place for you here.
Key Deliverables:

You will be required to work within the National Markets Tax team to accelerate the growth of our business. Specifically key aspects will be to:

• Build an internal network within the wider tax and advisory practices of our firm
• Be confident interacting at the most senior levels internally and externally, while at the same time able to interact well with peers and other more junior members of the team.
• Set the standard for insight and opinions delivered to the client - knowledgeable on both client business issues and KPMG solutions, and can match both effectively through assimilation.
• Positive and enthusiastic manner in dealing with a cross section of people.
• Excellence resilience to enable flexibility in approach and ability to work under pressure.
• Effective networker with ability to understand client needs
• Lead business development initiatives and pitch for work with both new and existing clients.
Qualifications and Skills:

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to quickly adapt to a range of situations and audiences from both written and oral perspective.
• Exceptional 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.
• Outstanding 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 the workloads of others in your team.

Intelligent Working
Our employees have many varied work schedules to suit their individual needs!
Our intelligent working options range from role sharing and flexible start and finish times, to home working and more informal arrangements agreed within teams.

Check out examples of KPMG employees enjoying different working patterns on our website and please do share your own individual requirements with us.

Applying with a disability
As a member of the Business Disability Forum we're committed to ensuring a great experience for colleagues with a disability. Should you be successful after the initial application stage, please discuss any adjustments that you may require with your recruitment contact.

KPMG's commitment to diversity
We are proud of the value we place on individuality. We want you to bring your full self to work and maximise your potential. KPMG is a place where everyone can thrive, whatever their gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

We are looking for a Manager to join our Global Mobility Services (GMS) team in London. KPMG's Global Mobility Service (GMS) practice is a diverse and fast-growing area of our Tax business. We serve some of the biggest names, with high-profile engagements touching every corner of world. Our GMS engagement teams are “360 degree service oriented”, with tax technical, client development and client-facing responsibilities as part of each successful candidates remit.

This team’s client base has grown dramatically over the last year and continued success in the market place and recent new wins means significant growth will continue. The candidate will be ready for early assumption of managerial responsibilities and close, regular contact with our dynamic partner and director group.


Role

We are looking for a Global Mobility Services (GMS) Manager to work in our People Services tax team across large Corporate clients.


Core Responsibilities:


Manage the day to day Global Coordination and/or UK service delivery (dependent on the client portfolio), supported by a junior engagement team.
Closely collaborate with subject matter experts within International Social Security, Employment Tax, GMS Technology, Reward, Immigration and the network of KPMG Member Firms to deliver on cross-border and multidisciplinary projects.
Project manage cyclical and one-off projects, such as short-term business visitors reporting, remote working advisory or income tax and payroll disclosures.
Engage with clients on current global mobility and UK tax developments
Support Engagement Leaders with VIP assignee services
For UK-led engagements – oversee efficient delivery of centralised services through effective engagement management, continuous process improvement and cultivating strong relationships with the local engagement teams across the KPMG network.
For UK inbound engagements – manage the UK tax compliance and work closely with the KPMG Centre of Excellence to deliver on all aspects of assignee compliance.
Develop, maintain and lead strong client relationships
Manage engagement finances with junior support

You will also have an opportunity to:


Support GMS business development / proposal activities, developing your sales skills
Performance manage junior colleagues, developing your coaching skills

Experience and Background


Experience working in expatriate/global mobility tax services in Big 4 or equivalent
Prior experience in an in-house Global Mobility / HR team or working overseas would be beneficial but is not required

You will thrive in this role if:

You have a high level of personal responsibility and accountability.
You can evaluate and integrate complex information to identify core issues and present practical advice.
You communicate with impact, both in speech and writing, and in a way that is open, honest, consistent, and clear.
You are motivated by a passion for the international aspects of our work, professional proficiency, and a desire to serve, lead and deliver excellent client service.
You have excellent organisational skills and you are a self-starter, able to work under you own initiative
You can work to multiple deadlines, showing resilience under pressure and an ability to think on your feet and apply creative thinking when presented with a challenging problem.
You pride yourself as having a strong tax technical expertise
You have a proven track record of exercising sound professional judgement, including the ability to identify issues/concerns and consult where appropriate with more senior staff.
Above all, you are a team player, who collaborates widely to deliver best client outcomes and invests time in development of their team.

Qualifications and Skills


ACA/ATT/CTA qualified or equivalent preferred
Strong Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word skills are preferred
Microsoft Power BI experience for reporting is welcome but not essential

This dynamic and market leading team provides corporate tax services to Financial Services clients ranging from UK branches of overseas financial institutions, smaller owner managed businesses through to major listed international groups. We advise companies across the whole of the financial services industry including banks, securities dealers, general and life insurers, Lloyds insurers, insurance brokers, funds and fund managers, commodity traders and general corporates.

The department focuses on the provision of high quality commercial advice to our clients. Our approach has as its foundation a thorough understanding of our client's business strategy as well as the industry in which they operate. This enables us to work in partnership with them and to provide tailored and robust tax and transfer pricing solutions to support their corporate goals. The work focuses on corporate tax advisory and M&A services, and includes building long-lasting client relationships and coordination of all tax services to clients.


Roles and Responsibilities

The successful candidate must have experience in all of the following areas:
- Carrying out a variety of corporate tax advisory work, including some international and M&A work, and supporting compliance and audit teams where tax issues are more complex. This includes specialised tax advice around life and general insurance, general tax advice and transfer pricing
- Efficient, effective and timely delivery of client work, usually in small teams
- Development and maintenance of good client relationships, including ongoing identification of leads for new work, and liaison with other members of the client service team outside tax
- Identification of work opportunities through an internal network of contacts
- Development of more junior staff in the team, through on-the job coaching and delivery of trainings to the wider team
- Liaising with colleagues in the wider firm to provide a complete service to clients
- Working with senior team members on identifying and following through future work opportunities and cross-selling to other disciplines.
Qualifications and Skills

The successful candidate must have the following skills and previous experience in all of the following areas:
- An accountancy/ finance qualification to degree/bachelor level.
- An CTA/ACA/CA or equivalent qualification
- Post-qualified corporate tax experience within an Insurance Corporate Tax team.
- Significant experience of working within a professional services firm, with a history of developing strong external and internal client relationships
- A commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice
- High level analytical skills
- Project coordination/management skills
- The flexibility to adapt to the ever changing demands brought about by tax, regulatory and business changes.
- UK Tax and transfer pricing knowledge within the financial sector.
- Tax accounting experience is essential for this role

**This role can be based in Glasgow, Birmingham or Manchester**

The Team


At KPMG we have re-imagined careers in corporate tax compliance. Our centralised tax compliance services are delivered by dedicated corporate tax compliance specialists utilising our cutting edge technology platform. We are winning new clients and are growing our team as a result of these successes. This is an exciting time to be part of the corporate tax compliance team at KPMG.

We are looking for a talented Senior Manager with UK corporate tax experience to join us in either Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff or as a remote worker.

The Role


You will be able to demonstrate exceptional tax compliance skills, the ability to work to tight deadlines and produce a first class product ready for issue to our clients. This will involve working closely with tax professionals based in all of KPMG’s UK offices and our partners in other countries, to deliver a seamless service to our clients.

The Managed Services Team has a diverse client base, from mid-market to FTSE listed groups, from public sector to real estate to financial services. We are growing our team of specialists due to a number of exciting wins, and further opportunities exist to expand the team.

In addition to delivering corporate tax compliance services there are opportunities to be involved in the development of our innovative technology solutions and also to participate in client demonstrations and other aspects of business development.


With our technology enabled solutions our compliance specialists can focus on technical excellence, opportunity spotting and managing the compliance relationship with clients.

We are offering both full time and part time roles with flexible working arrangements which include, early or late starts to fit around other commitments, shorter working days etc. We would be happy to discuss your own requirements and our range of flexible working arrangements in more detail, should that be of interest.

Roles & Responsibilities



- Maintain a portfolio of clients and take responsibility for ensuring their tax computations are prepared to a high standard, on a timely basis and finalised and submitted to HMRC within agreed deadlines.

- Work with the client directly to understand the requirements at the start of each compliance cycle including potential visits to clients/ local offices when appropriate.

- Identify and resolve technical issues, preparing technical analysis and involving specialists as appropriate to prepare or review analysis.

- Group Reporting and Tax accounting disclosures (FRS101, FRS102, IFRS)

- Identify opportunities to identify 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.

The Person

Qualifications and skills


We welcome applications from those qualified by experience, as well as ATT / CTA / ACA or equivalent qualifications.

Knowledge and Experience


- Experience of review of corporate tax computations and returns, specific banking sector experience is required.

- Ability to identify and resolve technical issues, or escalate as appropriate.

- Experience of specific technical areas including complex capital versus revenue treatment; pension scheme and share scheme adjustments; group relief; basic transfer pricing; tax accounting for single entities and groups.

- Experience of technical areas including controlled foreign companies and corporate interest restriction.

- Strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills.

- Excellent team work and organisational skills, including monitoring timetables and budgets.

- Proficient user of Alphatax (or similar)