Assistant Manager

We are looking for a high-performing AM/M to join our Tax Transformation practice (although flexibility on location will be considered) with experience across a broad range.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver direct tax and tax technology transformation projects, often as part of broader finance transformation programs.
• Design, build, and deploy tax technology solutions to improve efficiency, accuracy, and control.
• Design future-state tax processes aligned with global and local tax requirements.
• Work closely with Tax, Finance Transformation, IT, and Global Delivery teams.
• Develop and support robust tax governance and control frameworks.
• Act as a functional tax SME for tax technology implementations.
• Translate complex tax and accounting requirements into system-ready specifications.
• Review and validate tax calculations and system outputs.
• Manage client relationships, engagement delivery, and team performance.
• Coach junior team members and support development of service offerings.
• Deliver tax transformation and technology projects, often as part of a wider finance transformation program.
• Help clients to design, build, and deploy automation solutions that are designed for tax.
• Support our clients in designing systems that address tax requirements in different countries in the optimal way.

Requirements:

• Deep tax compliance, reporting, and/or automation expertise.
• Direct tax compliance, tax accounting, and tax provisioning.
• Hands-on experience implementing either TRCS, ONESOURCE Tax Provision, OneStream, or Longview.
• Hands-on experience implementing CbCR and Pillar 2 across tax tools.
• Understanding of end-to-end tax operating models and interaction with Record-to-Report processes.
• IFRS and/or US GAAP tax accounting knowledge, including tax consolidation.
• Advising on appropriate tax technology to support compliance and reporting processes.
• Tax technology implementation experience, including requirements gathering from a tax and IT perspective and creating and reviewing design documentation.
• Tax transformation experience, including tax governance, process design, and improvement.
• Strong project management skills.
• Client and engagement management.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Awareness of tax provisions and accounting, tax technology tools, and automation to drive efficiency, risk management, and value.
• Experience in process, risk, and implementations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with strong oral and written communication skills. Communicates with impact in a way that is open, honest, consistent, and clear.
• Takes personal responsibility and accountability for one's own work. Sustains a high level of drive and shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude when coping with pressure at work.
• Analyzes 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).
• Accuracy and consistency of tax provision outputs and system configurations.
• Adoption and stabilization of implemented tax technology tools.
• Team development, retention, and technical capability building.