Deal Advisory Tax Senior Manager - Private Equity & Credit

Location: Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Gatwick, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nottingham, Reading, South Coast - Southampton, Watford

Capability: Tax & Law

Experience Level: Senior Manager

Type: Full Time

Service Line: DA Tax

Contract type: Permanent

Deal Advisory Tax at KPMG is a dynamic and successful area of KPMG’s Tax & Legal business. We have an inclusive and collaborative leadership strategy and are making bold changes to our culture and how we work. A constantly changing and high-profile field, we work in a fast-paced, challenging and rewarding environment, and can offer a broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people.

The Role:

Deal Advisory Tax provides market leading services to both Financial and Corporate investors. We have teams focused on clients in our three performance groups of Financial Services, Corporates and National Markets, working and learning with each other.

• Financial Services: We work with private equity, infrastructure, and real estate funds as well as institutional investors such as sovereign wealth funds and pension funds.
• Corporates: We work alongside some of the most forward-thinking FTSE 100 and 250 businesses, supporting them with strategic acquisitions, carve outs, de-mergers, disposals, and joint ventures both in the UK and cross-border.
• National Markets: We work across the UK with mid-market corporates and PE funds, looking to invest across key UK sectors to grow our local economies.

The Deal Advisory Tax team provides advisory services across the whole deal spectrum including buy-side due diligence and structuring, sell-side vendor assist and vendor due diligence, refinancing and listing support. Deal sizes can be anywhere from £10m to +£10bn – we work with a variety of clients and on a variety of deals. We help our clients understand historical tax issues and structure transactions, with a continuous focus on maximising value throughout the investment cycle. Working collaboratively across the KPMG network, our work often involves advice on multiple countries, taxes, and work streams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work closely with Partners and/or Directors on complex transactions to deliver exceptional advice and service.
• Support in the pursuit of new opportunities, working on proposals and joining pitches.
• Develop and maintain client relationships alongside Deal Advisory.
• Be a key KPMG point of contact for clients, legal advisers, and other KPMG teams to facilitate effective delivery.
• Coach and develop colleagues, collaborate with peers and be constantly learning.
• Prepare/oversee detailed technical advice covering a range of UK and international tax issues.
• Perform/oversee detailed analysis of tax related documents/data, highlighting key issues and articulating the commercial impact of these to the client.
• Collaborate with other UK and overseas tax specialists, critically analysing and challenging their input.
• Demonstrate up-to-date tax technical knowledge in respect of key UK and OECD developments.
• Understand financial models from a tax perspective.
• Input on Deal Advisory Tax thought leadership.

The Person:

• Qualified CTA or ACA/CA or equivalent.
• Ambitious, enthusiastic and a keen interest in working on transactions.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong UK corporate tax knowledge and awareness of other tax and accounting matters.
• Strong analytical skills, curious and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice.
• Excellent project management skills, including ability to work as part of a team and to show initiative to drive projects forward.
• Pro-active in progressing business opportunities for the long-term benefit of both KPMG and the client.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships with clients and other stakeholders.
• Ability to build teams as well as develop, coach, and lead colleagues.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.

While some of KPMG’s client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, in Deal Advisory Tax we are supportive of helping you to achieve a balance between your home and work demands. We are happy to discuss individual requirements and our range of flexible working arrangements could be of interest.

We want you to bring your full self to work - to make this a place where people from every background thrive. We welcome applications from people who have taken a career break. We’re a member of the Business Disability Forum so please get in touch if you’d like to discuss any adjustments that you might need in the application process - and if you are successful beyond this.