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KPMG UK

Indirect Tax Director

Manchester
Posted 11 days ago
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KPMG has one of the leading Indirect Tax practices in the UK. We work as a national practice providing advice and support in all aspects of Indirect Tax (VAT, Customs Duty, Green taxes) to a broad range of business sectors including large multi-nationals, household name retailers, public sector organizations, and Financial Services. The Indirect Tax practice is a fast-growing and dynamic business, currently with approximately 200 professional staff located across the UK. We work to support our portfolio of clients with a variety of indirect tax issues.

In order to support our plans for our North of England Indirect Tax team, we are looking to recruit a motivated individual with a commercial edge who is seeking a real challenge, at Director level across our Indirect Tax business, to build on our successes to date and help us achieve our growth targets.

Joining KPMG means joining a talented team of exceptional colleagues who bring innovative thoughts and a natural curiosity to the work they do each day. No one type of person succeeds at KPMG; a diverse business requires diverse personalities, characters, and perspectives. There really is a place for you here.

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Roles and Responsibilities:

You will be required to work within the Indirect Tax North team to accelerate the growth of our business. Specifically, key aspects will be to:

  • Build relationships with senior stakeholders at clients and targets
  • Be market facing, lead business development initiatives, and pitch for work with both new and existing clients, both domestically and internationally, and drive sales
  • Build an internal network within the wider tax, legal, and advisory practices of our firm
  • Set the standard for insight and technical opinions delivered to the client – knowledgeable on both client business issues and KPMG solutions, and can match both effectively and deliver them in a compelling way
  • Be confident interacting at the most senior levels internally and externally, while at the same time able to interact well with peers and able to inspire and develop junior members of the team
  • Be positive, enthusiastic, curious with a real passion for indirect tax and helping clients

Experience and Background:

  • Strong business development and client-facing skills with a proven history of being able to identify opportunities and convert them to commercial projects whether from working in a consulting firm or in-house.
  • The role is potentially suitable for a strong Senior Manager with a proven track record to step up into the Director role or a Director looking for a new challenge in a team which is already performing strongly.
  • In terms of Indirect Tax experience, your focus should be VAT.
  • Experience of collaborating and working with other tax specialists, lawyers, finance function managing various stakeholders
  • Strong attention to detail, to enable you to review complex technical problems, whilst maintaining an overall strategic and client service-focused perspective, for all deliverables we produce for our clients
  • Communicates with impact, in a way that is open, honest, consistent, and clear; has the ability to quickly adapt to a range of situations and audiences from both a written and oral perspective
  • Excellent project management skills and an ability to manage your own workload, as well as the workloads of others in your team.
  • Displays an inclusive, collaborative approach and operates in an inspirational & respectful manner with colleagues, clients, and the wider community
  • Sustains a high level of drive, shows enthusiasm, and a positive attitude that translates across the team
  • Builds the reputation of KPMG through the quality of work, knowledge, and experience

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Skills

Indirect Tax
VAT
Business Development
Client Relationship Management
Strategic Planning
Project Management
Technical Advisory
Sales
Stakeholder Management
Team Leadership
Commercial Acumen
Communication
Problem Solving
Customs Duty
Green Taxes

Location

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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