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There are currently 5 Partners, 3 Associate Partners and 12 Directors across the national Family Office and Private Client (FO&PC) business and ambitious growth plans will support continued investment at these levels as well as for more junior resource. It is a nationally run business with five core service areas:

1. Transactions and Entrepreneurial Shareholders;
2. Ultra High Net Worth Individuals;
3. International;
4. Partnerships;
5. Investigations and Enquiries

One key FO&PC area that we do not cover is the provision of personal tax services to US Citizens based in the UK.






The role





We are looking for a Senior Manager to join our FO&PC team in our London US Private Client Practice.




You will be expected to participate in bringing new offerings to the market helping to develop new areas and ensuring a good flow of work to the group as a whole.

Roles and Responsibilities






You will build and expand your network (internal and external) to generate more opportunities for Private Client




• Enhance and build the advisory offering through a combination of improving the skills of the team
• The individual would be expected to delegate effectively, review work and have the ability to encourage and foster the development of the team members.
• Identify potential risks and deliver innovative and competitive solutions.
• Recognise and develop opportunities to further grow the national business.
• Advise clients regarding relevant planning opportunities (CGT, IT, IHT)
• Confirming tax efficiency of investment





Qualifications and Skills






Senior Manager candidates should have a proven technical track record but this is just a part of what we are looking for. In addition you should have:-






• Appropriate professional qualification e.g. ACA/ACCA/CTA or equivalent.
(incl been a registered US tax agent)

• Previous experience of working in management positions
and experience of working in a similar environment with experience of US Private Clients and varied advisory assignments


• Excellent technical specialist knowledge and expertise on all matters relating to tax returns and self-assessment including aspects relevant to US citizens based in the UK.
• Proven track record of building long term client relationships with high ranking C suite senior executives and high net worth individuals which often generate advisory opportunities.
• Market facing leadership skills.
• A passion for delivering exceptional service achieved by strength and depth of client relationships and a strong belief in value delivered through Private Client in your chosen specialist area.
• Ambition and drive that matches the ambition that we have for this business.
• A strong team ethic and the ability to grow resources and personally invest both within your immediate peer group but also more widely across the firm.

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The Team

As a national practice our FO&PC team consists of 162 team members across the UK, led by 5 Partners, 3 Associate Partners, and 12 Directors.
We are a nationally run business with five core service areas:
1. Transactions and Entrepreneurial Shareholders;
2. Ultra High Net Worth Individuals;
3. International;
4. Partnerships;
5. Investigations and Enquiries.
We work with a variety of high net worth individuals – from stakeholders in privately owned and entrepreneurial businesses, executives of multi-national firms, landed estates and senior members of private equity firms; who may be tax resident and/or domiciled in a range of jurisdictions. We also specialise in providing advice to Trusts and Estates, and Partnerships.
If you are a highly motivated qualified tax adviser/ accountant (ATT, CTA or ACA/ACCA) with experience of working in personal tax, then we’d love to hear from you.

The Role

We are looking for a Manager to join our FO&PC team in our South region (based in either Bristol or Reading or working across both locations).
This is primarily an advisory role and it entails working with high net worth individuals – both with UK affairs and international tax issues, and also working with entrepreneurial businesses and shareholder owned companies.

More specifically, some of the responsibilities will include:
• Ensuring the delivery of a high quality personal tax service to our clients.
• Managing a diverse portfolio of more complex clients and being able to provide personal tax advice on a wide range of assignments including inheritance tax, capital gains tax, income tax, international tax matters, and identifying opportunities to advise your portfolio of clients in relation to these taxes.
• Providing original and creative thinking to solve tax problems, frequently leading to providing wholly bespoke tax advice and solutions to one-off assignments.
• Project managing tax advisory assignments to ensure deadlines, risk management and compliance procedures are all met.
• Managing work in progress and ensuring prompt billing and cash collection.
• Overseeing the performance and career development of partly and newly qualified staff.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience
Candidates interested in this role should have the following skills and qualifications:
• Qualified accountant or tax advisor with experience working in a personal tax focussed environment with exposure to a varied client base.
• Academically strong results in career to date coupled with a keen and insightful understanding of the issues facing private clients.
• Strong interpersonal skills are required in addition to strong oral and written communication skills.
• A keen and insightful appreciation of the issues facing clients and an ability to deliver bespoke tax solutions to meet their needs.
• An ability to work as part of a team as well as on their own initiative.
• A commitment to clients, colleagues and KPMG.
• High level of analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice.

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 flexible 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.

There are currently 5 Partners, 3 Associate Partners and 12 Directors across the national Family Office and Private Client (FO&PC) business and ambitious growth plans will support continued investment at these levels as well as for more junior resource. It is a nationally run business with five core service areas:

1. Transactions and Entrepreneurial Shareholders;
2. Ultra High Net Worth Individuals;
3. International;
4. Partnerships;
5. Investigations and Enquiries

One key FO&PC area that we do not cover is the provision of personal tax services to US Citizens based in the UK.

The Role

We are looking for an Assistant Manager to join our FO&PC team in our London US Private Client Practice.
This is primarily an advisory role requiring an Assistant Manager with previous US private client experience. The role entails working with high net worth individuals, entrepreneurial businesses and shareholder owned companies providing a mixture of advisory and compliance services on a wide range of personal tax matters.
In particular, the role will suit either a high performing Assistant Manager keen to work with an exciting client base and keen to progress, or a recently qualified individual looking to gain exposure to a dynamic and entrepreneurial team.

More specifically your responsibilities will include:

- Supporting in building a practice from scratch (albeit a small amount of compliance work exists that is anticipated you will support the transition from an existing team sat within the Global Mobility Practice)

-Ensuring the delivery of a high quality personal tax service to our clients;

-Managing a portfolio of complex and diverse clients, including partnerships and non-UK domiciled individuals, and being able to provide personal tax advice on a wide range of assignments including inheritance tax, capital gains tax and income tax and particularly identifying opportunities to advise your portfolio of clients in relation to these taxes;

-Providing original and creative thinking to solve tax problems, frequently leading to providing wholly bespoke tax advice and solutions on one-off assignments;

-Project managing tax advisory assignments to ensure deadlines, risk management and compliance procedures are all met;

-Managing work in progress and ensuring prompt billing and cash collection;

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

- Qualified accountant or tax advisor with experience working in a personal tax focussed environment with exposure to a varied client base.

- Academically strong results in career to date coupled with a keen and insightful understanding of the issues facing private clients.

- An ability to work as part of a team as well as on their own initiative.

- A commitment to clients, colleagues and KPMG.

- High level of analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice.

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

Manager – Family Office and Private Client Tax Central Technical

Introduction
We are looking for an ambitious Manager (C Grade) to join our Family Office & Private Client (FO&PC) Tax Central Technical knowledge team.
Applicants should have experience of Private Client tax, a genuine interest in government tax policy and be passionate about making a difference to how the FO&PC Tax Central Technical team builds and manages its tax knowledge.
The role would suit an existing Manager with strong relevant experience in FO&PC tax advisory work and ideally some tax policy experience.

FO&PC Tax Central Technical team - what we do
Clients work with us for our deep technical insight matched with commercial acumen. So, building and developing our technical expertise is critical to give us an edge in the market.
The FO&PC Tax Central Technical team is focused on supporting the FO&PC tax practice providing technical assistance and resources to support and grow the FO&PC business.

The role
The role is an opportunity for an individual to develop a strategic market focus and strong tax technical skills understanding complex law and practice, translating and delivering these in user friendly summaries. These are essential skills to be an outstanding tax adviser.

This is an excellent opportunity for the successful candidate to:
• Broaden and deepen their tax knowledge
• Be an integral part of the firm’s thinking on emerging technical and tax policy issues
• Develop their business writing skills by drafting summaries of technical matters for internal and external audiences
• Build their network and work with a range of senior technical experts to create comprehensive technical resources
• Develop a thorough understanding of our Knowledge Management (KM) systems and practices.
What will my responsibilities be?
• Helping to prepare and maintain issues led material with a commercial focus such as Internal Briefing Notes and technical analysis that consolidate the firm’s technical knowledge on specific topics
• Developing deep expertise in specific subject matter areas thereby becoming a ‘Subject Matter Expert’
• Producing curated summaries of technical materials
• Producing commercially relevant digital training materials on tax technical topics
• Drafting articles on developments for internal and external audiences including material published in our external publication Tax Matters Digest
• Involvement in the Tax Policy Cycle (e.g. Budget and draft legislation) analysis and workstreams resulting from this
• Drafting responses to HMT/HMRC consultations on new proposals
• Supporting knowledge management initiatives
• Responding to ad hoc technical queries from the national FO&PC team
• Attending technical meetings and summarising key points for sharing more widely

What are we looking for in the successful candidate?

The successful candidate will ideally
• Be technically qualified (CTA/ICAS/ICAEW or a solicitor with relevant tax experience) with client-facing experience in FO&PC and some tax policy experience would be beneficial
• Have a strong attention to detail and high personal standards for delivering high quality work on time
• Have a real interest in tax and the potential implications for KPMG and our clients of the many developments and changes that are taking place
• Enjoy researching and analysing tax law and cases
• Be able to understand complex tax technical issues quickly, to a level where they can communicate them clearly to audiences of differing experience and expertise
• Be proactive in seeking guidance as required, seeking new challenges and supporting others in the team
• Have strong communication skills in a variety of media, including being able to explain complex concepts in a straightforward way and adapt communication style to suit the audience. Strong written communication skills are essential to the role
• Be confident in dealing with personnel at all levels
• Be positive and enthusiastic about sharing knowledge and promoting good communication
• Have a good working knowledge of Word, Excel and PowerPoint and able to produce professional looking documents independently

Enquiries
Please contact Jane.Scott2@kpmg.co.uk if you would like further information on the role.

The Team




KPMG is acknowledged as a leading advisor and professional services provider to the UK Healthcare industry with hundreds of professionals daily supporting our clients across the country. You will be joining a successful and growing team, who are looking to consolidate recent year on year growth and deliver a step change in the size and reach of our practice including growing international revenues. This is an exciting opportunity for talented individuals who are looking to grow their skills and abilities within a well regarded and rapidly expanding team, offering clear progression opportunities.




We are keen to recruit talented people who have the energy and drive to succeed in a dynamic and challenging environment and who have a passion for delivering excellent service and building strong relationships in healthcare.



The team works in an agile and flexible manner, with plenty of opportunities to develop new skills and gain new knowledge. We are keen to support and develop our people to enable them to be the best they can be.


We believe we are market leaders in promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace and want to encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures.



Take a look at our website with the link below to see “What Makes Us Different”


http://www.kpmg.com/UK/en/about/WhatMakesUsDifferent/Diversity/Pages/default.aspx



The Role



This role is to join our UK Healthcare practice as a Director focused on the growth of our private healthcare provider improvement account. The role is based in the UK within our Infrastructure, Government and Health (IGH) Operational Transformation (OT) capability.



As a Director in our growing Private Healthcare practice, you will be central to the development of our account strategy as well as implementation of private sector service reform, sustainable performance improvement and transformation programmes. Our growth ambitions are significant and we continue to grow our market share in the private provider improvement market through our Operational Excellence approach, which blends global market-leading tools, techniques and practice with deep-rooted provider experience and insight. Your role is to help us to continue to grow our private provider client base through account development, supported by your experience of working within a private provider (through either a consultancy or substantive role). In addition to existing client relationships and insight, you will ensure the delivery of exceptional client outcomes through continued leadership and development of our team. Outside of client engagements, you will actively contribute to the internal strategy and day to day running of the team as a member of our Leadership team. You will work closely with HHS Partners and Directors nationally and within your region.






Responsibilities



- Revenue and Sales
– As a Director you will help us to secure continued year-on-year growth through identification and pursuit of the private Health sector market opportunity. You will draw on existing relationships within key Private Healthcare providers , leading and developing the team and leveraging new and existing KPMG offers to respond to this market opportunity



- Leading multi-disciplinary teams
across engagements of all sizes, ensuring the highest quality outcomes for clients , on the job development for teams and continued enhancement of KPMG offers. Experienced oversight to identify, sell and deliver private healthcare advisory projects (new and sell ons) informed where applicable by UK or Global credentials and propositions








- Building strong client networks
and relationships, becoming a trusted advisor to your clients.






- Coaching and developing team members


through sharing of experience and knowledge, as well as managing the performance and development of other team members








- Upholding KPMG’s values by acting with integrity








- Project managing engagements


to deliver high quality work in a timely manner to include: scoping / financial management (budgeting) / engagement and risk management / production and review of deliverables.








- Fee generation


through actively identifying and progressing business development opportunities, as well as managing sales activities such as proposal development and client presentations.








- Contributing to practice management


, e.g. knowledge sharing, training, people and proposition development







The Person



We expect that you will have




Proven track record
of selling services into the private healthcare advisory services, focused on provider improvement.

Knowledge and understanding of:

- Private Healthcare consultancy market opportunities, informed by several years’ experience of providing consultancy services to the private sector or other healthcare sector



- The changing healthcare landscape across the English private health sector and NHS, informed by substantive service in either the private sector or NHS






- Knowledge and understanding of private sector and NHS policy, structures (regulation, commissioning and providers), and standards





Experience of:

- Several years’ experience of delivering Healthcare provider improvement projects, gained either through NHS or consultancy roles



- Engaging private sector and broader health and social care system stakeholders in the UK and aligning them behind agreed vision and strategic objectives






Leadership
– the role will help to lead, recruit and build a diverse UK based private health provider improvement team. The successful candidate will need to leverage teams from existing capabilities to work in this market, including capabilities developed in the public healthcare market, as well as build a dedicated market facing group of specialists from across aligned healthcare proposition teams.

Global Impact –
the individual will be expected to be an ambassador for the U.K. and Global KPMG healthcare advisory work and grow knowledge, skills and credentials within the wider global firm. They will likely join our KPMG global connected healthcare group.

Subject Matter Expert (SME)
- Technical competence must be in healthcare provider improvement, including in the private sector, gained within a UK setting.

Credibility in the market
- The successful candidate must be able to credibly represent KPMG’s Healthcare offer to client executives in order to scope and win profitable work in the market themselves. They will have greater than 5 years’ experience within the private healthcare consultancy market.

Relationships
– The individual appointed will have proven relationships across the UK private providers

Qualification



Ideally degree level qualified, but not essential for the right person with the right experience



Additional Information



The role can be based in any one of our major offices in the UK (Birmingham, Nottingham, London, Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh/Glasgow).