Employment Tax – Assistant Manager (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen) recruitment

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.

The People Services group delivers services ranging from taxation and compliance advice for private clients, to assisting organisations in areas such as International Executive Services. We also assist pension funds (or the companies that sponsor them) to manage pensions issues. Our activities are diverse in scope, but can be grouped according to the different business issues they help our clients address.

Job Description:
KPMG's Tax Pensions 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.

The People Services group delivers services to corporate clients including PAYE and Social Security advice, individual tax advice and compliance services for international assignees, employment tax matters and executive reward advisory services. Our activities are diverse in scope and a successful candidate can expect to be involved in a number of varied and different areas according to the business issues faced by their client portfolio.

Roles and Responsibilities

- Maintaining good relationships with clients
- Being the day to day contact for allocated clients
- Advising on, and proactively assisting with, management of employment tax compliance processes
- Ensuring clients are provided with up to date information on relevant developments in employment tax
- Advising on risk issues relevant to clients and assisting in mitigating these
- Preparing client advice for manager/partner review
- Some project management
- Assisting with management of work in progress and billing
- Regular contact with HMRC on client issues
- Interaction with colleagues in KPMG's People Services team and the wider tax team

Qualifications and Skills

ACA/CTA qualified or equivalent. Individuals with experience in managing payroll will also be considered

Experience and Background

- Identifies and pursues business opportunities
- Takes personal responsibility and accountability for own work
- Seeks out feedback and development opportunities
- Gives clear directions, positive and constructive feedback.
- Analyses problems, identifies core issues, investigates, evaluates and integrates information
- Communicates with impact, in a way that is open, honest, consistent and clear
- Builds the reputation of KPMG through the quality of work, knowledge and experience
- Monitors and upholds high quality of service and products to clients (internal and external).