Tax Reimagined Director - Global Compliance and Transformation

KPMG•London, MS

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

KPMG Tax Reimagined helps clients fundamentally rethink their tax function by going beyond the traditional people-process-technology paradigm and leveraging market-leading Digital Gateway technology. This approach helps clients build and implement a future-fit tax function. For companies needing help with fast-changing compliance requirements through a combination of centralized and local delivery, the Tax Reimagined practice offers capabilities to meet compliance and transformation obligations cost-effectively. The ultimate goal is a holistic solution that integrates all compliance areas (direct and indirect tax, transfer pricing, tax reporting, statutory accounting) with an integrated tax transformation effort, utilizing KPMG Powered Tax methodology. The solution can begin with either managed services or transformation, centered around a single technology platform, KPMG Digital Gateway, for data management, analytics, and visibility & control. KPMG Tax Reimagined offers multiple solutions to meet specific needs in creating a tax function that is ready for the present and the future. KPMG delivers Tax Reimagined through a combination of KPMG Regional Centres of Excellence and in-country teams, supported by the KPMG Delivery Network (KDN), bringing together extensive local and regional experience. The Regional Centres of Excellence in EMA, Latin America, and Asia Pacific are crucial for providing a globally consistent view while working with in-country teams to understand local tax laws, business impacts, and how to leverage opportunities and minimize risks.

Requirements

Significant Statutory Accounting experience within the global tax compliance and/or transformation space.
A collaborative, curious and improvement-focused approach, with an interest in innovation and technology.
A team player that shares experiences with others to assist their learning and understanding.
Builds the reputation of KPMG through the quality of work, knowledge, experience and personal example at work and in our communities.
Experience of leading and delivering large global projects.
Clear and influential written and verbal communication, including the ability to engage senior decision-makers.
Strong organisational skills to manage large and complex projects.
A commercial approach to resolving issues.
Fluent in English.
Fluency in additional languages would be desirable.

Responsibilities

Market facing role working with clients and lead KPMG Member Firms to frame discussions on managed services and transformation.
Lead or support the pursuit effort (targeting, formal RFPs) and lead the set-up phase of these engagements.
Lead Tax Reimagined engagements on key clients, partnering with lead partners and Solution Architects to initiate Tax Reimagined discussion and win engagements, with a particular focus on statutory accounting.
Shape and enhance the Tax Reimagined framework and assist in creating a formal structure around advisory services.
Proactively originate and convert statutory accounting opportunities for KPMG global compliance, tax transformation and related technology solutions.
Own competitive RFP processes end-to-end, from response development to stakeholder engagement, taking clients on the transformation journey.
Educate and coach colleagues to identify, qualify and escalate Tax Reimagined, global compliance and tax transformation opportunities.
Articulate the “art of the possible” to clients, explaining new features, functionality, best practice and emerging regulatory trends.
Challenge and influence CFOs, Heads of Tax and senior executives on tax function transformation strategy, scope, operating model and business case.
Lead onboarding and transition of new clients, managing cross-functional teams and overseeing global compliance, transformation and technology projects.
Design tailored Tax Reimagined solutions aligned to each client’s maturity, preferences and retained/outsourced tax and finance model.
Integrate KPMG’s tax and digital technologies into clients’ ecosystems, define future-state architecture and data flows, and collaborate across KPMG service lines to maximise synergies and leads from the rest of the firm’s book of business, e.g. Finance Transformation, M&A, re-location of business etc.