Our Transaction Services practice comprises approximately 500 people across the UK, organised to align to KPMG’s market orientated structure, and is at the heart of the Firm's agenda to increase its penetration of boardrooms and work with clients across the economic and transaction cycle.  Our team works closely with colleagues across Deal Advisory as well as Tax, Audit and other Advisory teams; it is a multi-disciplinary and international environment that sits right at the heart of our One Firm agenda. We are recruiting Associate Directors in our Private Equity, Financial Services, Corporates and Capital Markets teams across the UK to support the growth of our TS business.

We are looking for a Senior Manager to join our Global Mobility Services (GMS) team, in London.

Tax Manager - Japan Practice - Global Mobility Services: 104663

Base Location: London with a network of 20 offices nationally: www.kpmgcareers.co.uk/experienced-professional/#LeBlender.OfficeLocations

Why Join KPMG as a Tax manager – Japan Practice within our Global Mobility Services Team

 

We are looking for a GMS Manager to work in the Japan Practice in Tax, Global Mobility Services team working on a mixed portfolio of clients. 

 

KPMG's Global Mobility Services (GMS) practice is a diverse and fast-growing area of our Tax business. We serve the biggest names in the Financial Services community, with high-profile engagements touching every corner of the world.

 

Our GMS engagement teams are “360-degree service oriented”, with tax technical, team leadership, and client-facing responsibilities as part of each successful manager’s remit. 

 

You’ll advise on complex people challenges, including future of work trends such as cross-border working, remote working and virtual assignments. Working alongside multi-disciplinary experts, such as tax, technology, immigration, and mobility administration services and using some of the best technology solutions in the market, you’ll have the support and tools to create opportunities for our clients – and for your career.  
 

What will you be doing?

Senior Consultant

 

Job title: Cyber Defence Services - Senior Consultant
Location: UK
Line of Business: Advisory - Risk Consulting Service Area: Cyber Security  Roles and Responsibilities

The Role
At KPMG we are looking for a Senior Consultant who lives and breathes hacking and information security. You will have earned your stripes doing CHECK work in data centres and be ready to, or already skilled in leading teams of talented testers. 
In return we will provide some of the UK’s most unique government and commercial engagements for you to cut your teeth on and a friendly, passionate team to develop and grow.

The Team
The KPMG’s Cyber Defence (CDS) Team conducts client facing technical assurance and penetration testing and has a long and successful history in KPMG. Our clients are diverse and we cover many sectors with particular specialisms in Financial Services, High-end Defence Assurance and Telecommunications. We work closely with the NCSC developing new schemes such as Cross Domain Solutions Testing (https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/ncsc-cross-domain-industry-pilot-stage-2) and are members of all current NCSC and CREST testing schemes - as a result we conduct interesting and challenging work that isn’t on offer elsewhere. 
Our team is made up of skilled individuals at different stages in their careers, centred around three locations in Leeds, Bristol and London, therefore we are able to offer flexibility in base location, as well as embracing remote working.

Responsibilities
As this is a senior role, we want your business brain as well as your technical hacking skills. You will have ideas of how to drive the business forward, and be skilled in the commercial aspects of security testing, above all you will know what clients are looking for when they buy security testing and how to deliver it.

Aspects of the role include:
•    Delivery of testing and the oversight of junior testers
•    Peer review of deliverables (QA) 
•    Knowledge sharing
•    Continuous development of self, including gaining client feedback.
•    Developing constructive client relationships, both inside and outside of KPMG.
•    Developing an understanding of KPMG’s broader offerings 
•    Contributing to proposals and participating in client presentations.

The Person
Required
•    Passion for Hacking!
•    Clear and demonstrable understanding of penetration testing and red-teaming including NCSC and CREST accredited schemes.
•    Proven experience of successfully delivering testing
•    Proven experience working within the UK cyber security industry 
•    Demonstrable understanding and practical application of information security principles
•    Strong technical background in computing, networks, and programming.
•    Proven experience of producing high quality deliverables working alone and as part of a team. 
•    Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
•    A genuine interest and desire to work with large multi-national clients in the information security field.

Advantageous:
•    Knowledge of working in secure environments (List X facilities) and accredited labs (ISO17025)
•    Research and Development experience
•    Threat Intelligence experience
•    Application testing experience

Qualifications and Skills
Qualifications are a good way to demonstrate knowledge but are not the be all and end all, our team is made up of a large number of indiv

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