Deal Advisory - Tax Manager - London

Deal Advisory Tax 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.

Deal Advisory Tax provides market leading services to both Corporate and Financial investors. We have teams focused on clients in four key markets: Corporates; Private Equity & Credit; Real Estate and Energy & Infrastructure. We are a national and connected team, working and learning with each other.

• Corporates: We work alongside FTSE 100 and 250 businesses, as well as corporates across the UK, supporting them with strategic acquisitions, carve outs, de-mergers, disposals, and joint ventures both in the UK and cross-border. Our corporates business is multi-sector, including Consumer, Life sciences, TMT, Industrials, ENR and Banking & Insurance.
• Asset Management: We work with Private Equity, Infrastructure, Renewable/Energy transition, and Real Estate Funds, large and mid-cap, as well as institutional investors such as Sovereign Wealth Funds and Pension Funds. Our clients have UK, European and Global investment strategies and often have teams across multiple asset classes.

The Deal Advisory Tax team provides advisory services across the whole deal spectrum including buy-side due diligence and structuring, sell-side vendor assist, vendor due diligence, refinancing and listing support. Deal sizes range from £10m to +£10bn, and we work with a variety of clients and deals.

We help clients understand and quantify historical tax issues, structure transactions, model tax considerations and reflect our advice in the legal documents underpinning each transaction, 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 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 written and oral 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.

We are open to talk to talent across the country but our core hubs for this role are: London, Canary Wharf, Reading, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham, Newcastle, Edinburgh. With 20 sites across the UK, we can potentially facilitate office work, working from home, flexible hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please register and discuss this with our team.