Transfer Pricing Senior Manager - FS
At a glance
Senior Tax role at KPMG UK. London.
Pay not stated Tax salary
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What you'll do
- Advise financial services clients on transfer pricing questions and lead project delivery across multiple jurisdictions
- Serve as clients’ main contact while building relationships with their stakeholders
- Set project budgets, track billing and keep engagements commercially viable
- Coordinate with tax and advisory teams, and coach junior colleagues through regular training and on-the-job support
- Help win new transfer pricing assignments and contribute to business development and marketing work
What you bring
- A CTA, CA, ACA or ACCA qualification, or a relevant degree in economics, finance, law or accounting
- Substantial transfer pricing experience, including work such as documentation, benchmarking or tax authority enquiries
- Experience in financial services, plus sound judgement when assessing risks and deciding when to involve others
- Strong analytical, commercial, communication and project-management skills
Who this fits
This senior role suits someone who can manage client work independently while guiding junior team members. You’ll balance technical advice and multi-jurisdiction project delivery with business development and client relationship responsibilities.
From the employer
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:
- Providing technical transfer pricing advice to our financial services clients on a broad range of topics
- Developing and maintaining client relationships including acting as the main point of contact for clients and relevant stakeholders
- Managing various projects across multiple jurisdictions and leading the day-to-day delivery processes
- Coordinating with KPMG's transfer pricing, international tax, indirect tax and advisory teams on a range of topics
- Financial management, including developing and managing project budgets and billing to ensure profitable delivery of client engagements
- Coaching and developing junior team members which will also include delivering training sessions and providing on-the-job coaching on a regular basis
- Ensuring timely reporting to senior management
- Actively contributing to identifying new opportunities and managing business development and marketing initiatives along with proposition and market leads
- Successfully targeting businesses and winning transfer pricing work.
The Person
We are looking for candidates with the following skills/experience:
- Either a CTA, CA, ACA, ACCA or attained a Bachelors or Masters degree in economics, finance, law, accounting or equivalent qualification.
- Substantial experience in transfer pricing, 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.
- Sound judgement, including the ability to identify and evaluate risk issues and know when to involve others.
- Strong analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice
- High level of drive and enthusiasm with a positive attitude
- Strong commercial awareness
- Keen ability and willingness to keep up to date technically and develop the technical ability of the team below you
- Ability to work autonomously and to take initiative as appropriate
- An appreciation of and/or understanding of ethical/risk issues within a client service environment
- Very strong people skills for engaging with our clients and team members
- Highly organised with excellent communication and project management skills
- Experience of the Financial Services industry