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13.02.2025
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Tax Transformation – Senior Manager
We are looking for experienced Tax Transformation Senior Managers with the ability to analyse tax requirements, design tax processes, and implement tax technology solutions. You will have experience in one or more of the following areas: Technology Transformation (ERP), General Transformation, and Tax Provision Technology.
Role & Responsibilities:
* Lead and manage the overall delivery of tax transformation and technology projects, often as part of a wider finance transformation program.
* Understand clients' priorities and design, build, and deploy automation solutions which are designed for Tax.
* Support clients in designing systems that address tax requirements in different countries in the optimal way.
* Work together with Tax Transformation and GCT colleagues as well as other teams in KPMG such as Consulting.
* Help clients develop robust global governance and control frameworks.
* Develop our service offerings and service delivery models.
* Identify opportunities to provide additional services that the client may need and liaise with subject specialists.
* Establish and maintain strong client relationships.
* Have excellent interpersonal skills with strong oral and written communication skills.
* Take personal responsibility and accountability for own work, sustaining high levels of drive and enthusiasm.
* Performance manage managers and assistant managers and oversee the output from offshore resources in order to deliver client projects.
* Ensure projects are appropriately resourced and utilized efficiently.
* Develop the team technically, providing stretching opportunities and giving regular feedback.
* Coach and support other team members.
* Follow KPMG best practices and policies.
Knowledge & Experience:
Please see below the skills and experience required for the different areas of Transformation. You will be required to have experience in one or more of the following areas:
ERP Transformation:
* Hands-on experience of working in SAP finance and controlling modules.
* Strong and practical ERP finance and tax experience of configuring SAP S4 HANA.
* Experience of integrating VAT determination engines and bolt-ons.
* Knowledge of implementing tax determination tools such as Vertex O-Series, Thomson Reuters OneSource Determination, or Meridian VAT Add-On.
* Hands-on tax technology implementation experience, including requirements gathering from tax, IT, and users, and creating and reviewing design documentation.
* Awareness of technology and automation to drive efficiency, risk management, and value.
* Experience in process, risk, and controls design.
* Experience of delivering large scale SAP ECC and S/4 HANA finance and tax transformation implementations.
* Able to understand key tax requirements and translate those into SAP system design specifications.
* Practical knowledge and understanding of implementing SAP global tax management solutions like Tax compliance, Document Reporting, and Compliance.
* Should be able to suggest practical solutions for setting up intercompany billing processes to support operational transfer pricing requirements.
* Should have an understanding of GL accounting, financial close, and material ledgers.
* Preferably have an understanding of SAP Profitability and Performance Analysis (PaPM) module to implement tax use cases.
* Must have experience of reviewing the SAP native tax configurations and suggesting any improvements and remedial plans.
Tax Transformation:
* Experience in designing tax transformation and technology roadmaps and translating them into a transformation program.
* Ability to support tax transformation workshops – identifying and prioritizing key pain points, developing and supporting the implementation of technology roadmap.
* Ability to define business requirements and translate them to supporting functional/non-functional requirement gathering and creating and reviewing design documentation.
* Acting as a functionality translator, being the primary liaison between technology teams and tax teams.
* Deep tax compliance, reporting, and/or automation expertise.
* Tax transformation experience, including tax governance, process design, and improvement.
* Strong understanding of key drivers in the tax transformation market, be that BEPS Pillar 2, Making Tax Digital, E-Invoicing, etc.
* Experience in supporting clients on business case development for transformation projects.
* Experience in managing workstreams on large scale tax change programs, coordinating across multiple project areas.
* Ability to undertake technology scorecard and vendor assessments, presenting findings and recommendations back to clients in a clear and defined manner.
* Awareness or experience of tax and accounting compliance processes.
* Designing or implementing cloud-based practical applications from a tax perspective.
Tax Provision Technology:
* Understanding of group tax reporting processes and experience with current state process review and design of new/updated processes for multinational groups.
* Knowledge of the third-party tax provision solution market for IFRS groups and exposure to the benefits and drawbacks of the major solutions.
* Practical hands-on experience with the end-to-end implementation of at least one established third-party tax provision solution.
* Experience of taking a leading role on projects involving technology implementation or change.
* Functional knowledge of IFRS and/or US GAAP tax accounting, including tax consolidation.
* Awareness of drivers for change in group tax reporting processes.
* Experience of helping groups to build a business case for tax reporting transformation.
* Professional accounting or tax qualification and/or experience working in an in-house tax team with tax reporting responsibilities.
* Exposure to popular ERP and consolidation systems would be an advantage.
Global Compliance & Transformation:
At KPMG, we have re-imagined careers in Global Compliance & Transformation (GCT). A key focus for KPMG’s GCT team is to help multinational groups and financial services clients manage their global tax compliance, reporting, and statutory accounting obligations.
Our clients leverage KPMG’s compliance and transformation expertise and technology to drive better visibility, greater efficiency, and improved risk management across their organisation. Ultimately we prepare groups for the future of digital compliance, helping them develop a sustainable, technology-enabled, and holistic future state operating model.
We are winning new clients and are rapidly growing our team as a result of these investments and successes. As part of an established KPMG network of expert teams and delivery centres, you will have a fantastic opportunity to experience the global nature of these services. Delivery is underpinned by our innovative KPMG Digital Gateway platform.
We are offering full-time roles with flexible working arrangements which include early or late starts to fit around other commitments. You will also have the opportunity to develop your career in a dynamic part of the business, within a team that embraces diversity and personal development.
Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
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 are outlined below:
BEPs: We are recruiting individuals with tax technical skills and Pillar 2 awareness to support with transformation opportunities that exist with clients and targets.
Managed Services: We are recruiting individuals experienced in leading the overall delivery of global or large UK tax, accounting, compliance, and reporting projects.
Technology Transformation: We are recruiting individuals with experience of leading technology solutions projects as well as driving new opportunities across Corporates and/or Financial Services.
Tax Operating Model: We are recruiting individuals with broad experience in the Tax Operating Model space.
Data Management: We are recruiting individuals with varied experiences such as deploying data-focused solutions that enable automation.
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