Senior Consultant – People Services (Global Mobility Tax Advisory)

Role and responsibilities:

Operations

Quality and client engagement 

• Co-ordinate incoming correspondence from the clients and other international KPMG offices, work with large data sets and quantities of information.
• Prepare written correspondence to clients, Government authorities and KPMG international offices.
• Conduct research on client queries and prepare drafts of findings to senior team members for review.
• Take ownership of the preparation of client advisory deliverables and reports.
• Conduct tax arrival/departure briefings.
• Work on multiple projectssimultaneously and prioritise tasks.
• Take note at meetings and distribute meeting notes with team.
• Keep senior team members informed on status of tasks, significant developments and progress on engagements to ensure timely delivery of services to clients.
• Identify problems, promptly escalate and suggest an initial approach to resolve matters.
• Demonstrate ability to work on own initiative and communicate proactively with parties involved.
• Communicate with Government officials.
• Assist with the training of junior team members.
• Demonstrate an awareness of KPMG’s risk management policies and procedures and support engagement administration.

Risk management and billing

• Assist senior team members with risk management and billing/invoicing procedures.
• Ability to recognise and raise potential matters of risk for the firm.
• Ensure all time recordings are accurate and timely and achieve chargeable hours target.

Technology

• Work with multiple systems - MS Office, MS Excel and various internal and KPMG global systems.
• Participate in trainings and keep up to date with advancements in the systems. 
• Actively contributes ideas on introducing technologies to improve team and client efficiency.

Key skills

• High standard of written and verbal communication skills.
• High standard of organisation, prioritisation and multi-tasking skills.
• Demonstrates attention to detail on deliverables (effectively error-checks own work).
• Project management skills.
• PowerPoint skills.

Technical Knowledge 

• Demonstrate a good awareness of global mobility processes. 
• Willing to continuously learn and keep up to date with changes to tax regulations.
• Tax qualification (or interest in pursuing). 

Business development

• Stay informed and up to date on market activity for client engagements.
• Identify cross- selling business opportunities and support client.
• Contribute towards engagement planning. 

Role requirements

• University degree and/or relevant tax technical qualification.
• Previous global mobility tax advisory services experience is a must.
• Big 4 experience a distinct advantage. 
• Has a keen interest in progressing career within global mobility services.
• Fluent English.