Job description
The Team
KPMG's transfer pricing practice is a highly dynamic and successful area within our tax business. A constantly changing and increasingly significant field, the transfer pricing team helps clients establish, document and defend market based pricing terms in relation to transactions between parts of multinational businesses.
We are a national team of over 140 transfer pricing specialists including 8 Partners mostly based in London and key UK cities. There is a good mix of tax professionals, accountants and economists with backgrounds from industry, practice and HMRC. This variety of backgrounds will give you the opportunity to work with people who are experts in their field, and help you to build a diverse skillset.
The Responsibilities
This role involves working on a range of projects for financial services clients.
The work involves:
1. Providing technical transfer pricing advice to our financial services clients on a broad range of topics
2. Developing and maintaining client relationships including acting as the main point of contact for clients and relevant stakeholders
3. Managing various projects across multiple jurisdictions and leading the day-to-day delivery processes
4. Coordinating with KPMG's transfer pricing, international tax, indirect tax and advisory teams on a range of topics
5. Financial management, including developing and managing project budgets and billing to ensure profitable delivery of client engagements
6. Coaching and developing junior team members which will also include delivering training sessions and providing on-the-job coaching on a regular basis
7. Ensuring timely reporting to senior management
8. Actively contributing to identifying new opportunities and managing business development and marketing initiatives along with proposition and market leads
9. Successfully targeting businesses and winning transfer pricing work.
The Person
We are looking for candidates with the following skills/experience:
10. Either a CTA, CA, ACA, ACCA or attained a Bachelors or Masters degree in economics, finance, law, accounting or equivalent qualification.
11. At least 7 years of transfer pricing experience, preferably including experience of preparing transfer pricing documentation, tax value chain analyses, benchmarking, supporting with tax authority enquiries/Advance Pricing Agreements, project management and managing junior team members.
12. Sound judgement, including the ability to identify and evaluate risk issues and know when to involve others.
13. Strong analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice
14. High level of drive and enthusiasm with a positive attitude
15. Strong commercial awareness
16. Keen ability and willingness to keep up to date technically and develop the technical ability of the team below you
17. Ability to work autonomously and to take initiative as appropriate
18. An appreciation of and/or understanding of ethical/risk issues within a client service environment
19. Very strong people skills for engaging with our clients and team members
20. Highly organised with excellent communication and project management skills
21. Experience of the Financial Services industry