Indirect Tax Senior Manager - Trade & Customs

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Job description

With significant annual growth and ambitious plans for further expansion between now and the end of 2024, our team is home to one of the UK's leading Indirect Tax practices and an exciting place to be. Our expertise spans across the various indirect taxes in the UK - including VAT, Customs and Excise, Insurance Premium Tax and Environmental Taxes. We help clients to successfully manage their indirect tax compliance, to adopt and apply new technology, whilst also forging broader advisory relationships. It's varied and pioneering work, which helps businesses to anticipate and manage change. As part of this collaborative team, you'll use your expertise to do work that matters, helping to create opportunity for clients in a world of increasing complexity.

The Indirect Tax practice is a fast-growing and dynamic business, currently with approximately 13 partners and 190 professional staff located across the UK. We work to support our portfolio of clients with a variety of Indirect tax issues. Within the various teams we have specialists in sectors such as Retail, Supply Chain, International Trade, alongside our Public Sector and Financial services specialisms. We work closely with our colleagues in Trade & Customs, Corporate and Employment tax to deliver value to KPMG's clients.

Roles and Responsibilities

You will be a key member of our Team:

• Providing high quality Indirect Tax advisory services on a broad range of indirect tax issues to a range of corporate clients;
• Maintaining, developing and managing KPMG's strong relationships with clients;
• Developing innovative solutions and opportunities for our clients;
• Implementation of business development initiatives;
• Providing sales support, developing, building and maintaining key B2B and B2C client relationships
• Developing more junior members of the team from both a technical and commercial perspective;
• Working closely with directors and partners who will provide you with the support and opportunities to assist you in realising your full potential.

Experience and Background

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who would like to be part of a successful and growing team. You should be someone who:

• Takes personal responsibility and accountability for their work;
• Is driven and committed;
• Is ambitious and motivated to grow personally;
• Seeks out feedback and development opportunities; Identifies and pursues business opportunities;
• Sustains a high level of drive, shows enthusiasm and a positive attitude when coping with pressure at work
• Continuously learns from experiences. Seeks out feedback and development opportunities
• Gives clear directions, positive and constructive feedback. Coaches less experienced staff
• Works in a cooperative, respectful manner with colleagues, clients and the wider community
• 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)