Corporate Tax Manager

Job description

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Overview

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.

Our London region CTAC team is a fast growing part of our Tax practice with a diverse client base ranging from PE-backed, owner managed and family businesses through to UK listed and multinationals.

Working in our successful CTAC business will give you the opportunity to develop relationships with clients as you manage the tax compliance process together with getting involved on various advisory projects such as, business reorganisations, tax authority enquiries, pre/post transaction reorganisations, refinancing, cash repatriation, interest deductibility and the impact of global fiscal change (e.g. BEPS Pillar 2).

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.

• Responsibilities
  
  - Be market facing with allocated clients and target organisations 
  - 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
  - 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
  - Managing our engagement quality and risk processes and client financials

- Being a role model for KPMG’s values

- Managing teams, coaching and developing staff 

Qualifications and Skills:

- Strong educational background (preferably 2:1 or higher University degree)
- ACA, CA, CTA, ACCA or equivalent qualified with strong corporate tax and accounting knowledge

The Individual:

- Strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills
- 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
- Displays an inclusive, collaborative approach and operates in a 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 KPMG through the quality of work, knowledge and experience