Job Description
In this role, you'll have opportunities to enhance your existing client relationship skills, build your leadership capabilities as well as your technical and commercial knowledge in a dynamic environment. We pride ourselves on our supportive and meritocratic culture, and you'll be part of an innovative community of people from many different professional and personal backgrounds.
The team focuses on the provision of high quality commercial advice to our clients. Our approach has as its foundation in a thorough understanding of our clients' business strategy as well as the industries in which they operate. This enables us to work in partnership with them and to provide tailored and robust tax solutions to support their corporate goals. The work focuses on corporate tax advisory services, and includes building long-lasting client relationships and coordination of all tax services to clients.
Director Role and Responsibilities
- Developing and leading relationships across a portfolio of clients, including our most high-profile banking clients
- Managing teams to ensure the high-quality delivery of a range of projects to meet our clients' needs, from corporation tax opinions, to multi-jurisdictional or cross-functional advisory projects, as well as supporting compliance and audit teams where tax issues are more complex
- Ensuring that client work is managed and delivered effectively, maintaining good financial hygiene
- Understanding the client's business and proactively identifying areas for the sell-on of additional tax and other services
- Building and maintaining internal relationships across the tax practice as well with non-tax colleagues and the network of member firms
- Being involved in business development activity and working closely with the wider practice
- Coaching and mentoring more junior team members, including the opportunity to undertake performance management responsibilities if desired.
- Carrying out detailed technical research
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
We are looking for people who are keen to work in an environment that offers plenty of opportunities for personal and professional development. Whilst working with us you will broaden your project management and technical skills and your commercial acumen. You will also have the opportunity to work with many talented people within the KPMG global network, the financial community and other professional advisers. The person best suited to a role is someone who is bright, driven and confident.
- CTA and/or ACA/CA and/or equivalent legal/HMRC/international qualification is essential
- History of developing strong external and internal client relationships
- Strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills
- UK banking corporate tax knowledge is essential plus an awareness of broader tax, regulatory and accounting areas
- Good general banking industry knowledge
- Strong analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice
- Ability to lead and drive projects forward, meeting deadlines and managing the financial impacts
- Ability to build teams, develop, coach and lead staff
- The flexibility to adapt to the ever-changing demands brought about by tax, regulatory and business changes
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