Global Tax Compliance Lead

2 months ago


Glasgow, Glasgow City, United Kingdom KPMG Full time

About KPMG's Global Compliance & Transformation Team

KPMG's Global Compliance & Transformation (GCT) team is a key area of focus for our organization. We help multinational groups and financial services clients manage their global tax compliance, reporting, and statutory accounting obligations through outsourcing, co-sourcing, transformation, and technology.

Our Services

  • We leverage KPMG's compliance and transformation expertise and technology to drive better visibility, greater efficiency, and improved risk management across our clients' organizations.
  • We prepare groups for the future of digital compliance, helping them develop a sustainable, technology-enabled, and holistic future-state operating model.

Our Team

We are a dynamic team of experts who are passionate about reimagining tax. We have a diverse client base, from mid-market to FTSE-listed groups, from public sector to real estate to financial services. Our team is committed to delivering exceptional results and building strong relationships with our clients.

Job Summary

We are seeking a talented Senior Manager to join our team in Canada Square, London (although flexibility on location will be considered). The successful candidate will have experience in a broad range of areas, including:

  • Deep tax transformation experience, including analyzing tax requirements, designing tax processes, and implementing tax technology solutions.
  • Strong and practical ERP finance and tax experience, specifically in SAP S4 HANA, Oracle, or Workday, as a foundation for tax processes.
  • Strong experience of design and configuration of ERP systems for tax purposes.
  • Strong experience of implementing VAT determination engines and bolt-ons, such as Vertex O-Series, Thomson Reuters OneSource Determination, or Meridian VAT Add-On.
  • Strong tax technology implementation experience, including requirements gathering from a tax, IT, and users and creating and reviewing design documentation.
  • Tax process knowledge, for example, indirect tax, direct tax, and/or transfer pricing.
  • Strong familiarity with end-to-end finance processes (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Record-to-report) and their integration with tax.
  • Advising on appropriate tax technology to support compliance and reporting processes.
  • Project management.
  • Client and engagement management.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage the overall delivery of global and large tax transformation and technology projects, often as part of a wider finance transformation program.
  • Help clients design, build, and deploy ERP and tax automation solutions that are designed for tax.
  • Support our clients in understanding the importance of tax, the optimal way to address tax requirements in their countries, and the value that it can bring.
  • Work together with our other Tax Transformation colleagues as well as other groups in KPMG, such as Consulting.
  • Help clients develop robust global governance and process frameworks.
  • Develop our service offerings and service delivery models.
  • Establish and maintain strong client relationships with both existing and new clients.
  • Line manage managers and assistant managers and oversee the output of offshore resources in order to deliver client projects.
  • Identify opportunities to identify additional services that the client may need and liaise with subject specialists.
  • Coach and provide technical support for other team members.
  • Follow KPMG best practice and policy.

Requirements

  • At senior manager level, you will be proactive, curious, committed, and invested in self-development and learning.
  • You will demonstrate resilience, accountability, flexibility, and experience in leading others, managing significant size engagements and client relationships, driving results, and managing risk.
  • Across GCT, we would welcome applications from those qualified by experience, as well as ATT/CTA/ACA or equivalent qualifications.
  • Project Management qualifications along with specific transformation skills (e.g., Lean Six Sigma) are also welcome.
  • Further skills and experience include:
    • Experience of technology and automation to drive efficiency, risk management, and value.
    • Experience in process, risk, and controls design.
    • Excellent interpersonal skills with strong oral and written communication skills.
    • Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own work.
    • Analyses problems, identifies core issues, investigates, evaluates, and integrates information.
    • Builds the reputation of KPMG through the quality of work, knowledge, and experience.
    • Awareness or experience of tax and accounting compliance processes (e.g., Direct/Indirect tax returns, statutory accounting).


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