KPMG UK
Director, Employment Solutions
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About the Role
In Employment Solutions, you’ll have the opportunity to work with a variety of clients across different sectors, as well as colleagues with expertise in everything from tax and employment law through to payroll, people and change. You’ll provide advice spanning Employment Tax, payroll obligations, Employee Benefit Solutions and HMRC compliance. Our unique combination of technology platforms will support you to help clients to automate their processes and enhance their employee experience. We’ll support you to continue your technical and career development and gain an advantage for life.
KPMG's tax practice is a dynamic and successful area of our business. A constantly changing and increasingly high-profile field, tax can offer a surprisingly broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people. Employment Solutions (ES) operates as a national practice and is a portfolio business of Employment Solutions specialists working on a wide variety of international and domestic clients including many household names. We also work closely with our KPMG Employment Law, Global Mobility and People Consulting colleagues.
The work is wide ranging and covers all aspects of Employment Solutions including employment tax and risk governance, IR35 and employment status, payroll effectiveness and expenses and benefits compliance.
Role and Responsibilities
- You will lead the relationships and accounts for a number of our key clients as well as a broader portfolio and be expected to originate opportunities, deliver against those and drive our strategy
- Leading business development and marketing activities, both internally with our partner/director group, and externally in the market
- Winning new work and encouraging a winning mindset within an experienced team of tax professionals.
- Leading by example on technical quality and service delivery of Employment Solutions offerings.
- Innovating our services around a wide range of developing employment and reward related changes in legislation.
- Leading teams of people including coaching and developing junior staff.
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Experience and Background
- Extensive experience of employment tax and wider reward legislation.
- Ability to develop and sustain client relationships at a senior level and pro-active approach to networking in the external market.
- A willingness and flexibility to generate new business in both employment tax and reward.
- Ability to look forward and understand prevailing trends in employment tax and reward legislation and a focus on translating these changes for the benefit of clients.
- Communicates with impact with clients and colleagues, in a way that is open, honest, consistent and clear.
- Monitors and upholds high quality of service delivery.
- Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own and team’s work.
- Sustains a high level of drive, shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude that translates across the team.
- Gives clear directions, positive and constructive feedback. Coaches and develops less experienced staff.
- Builds the reputation of KPMG through the quality of work, knowledge and experience.
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Qualifications and Skills
- Extensive employment tax experience, market / client knowledge and ideally CTA qualified (or equivalent).
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