Manager, Tax - Ignition

About the role

At KPMG, you can become an integral part of a dynamic team at one of the world’s top tax firms. Enjoy a collaborative, future-forward culture that empowers your success. Work with KPMG’s extensive network of specialists; enjoy access to our Ignition Centers, where deep industry knowledge merges with cutting-edge technologies to create innovative tax solutions. Join a diverse team helping high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. Develop your career through a range of multifaceted engagements, formal training, and informal mentoring. At KPMG, we believe nothing is more important than investing in our culture because it is an investment in our people, our future, and what we stand for as a firm.

Responsibilities

• Review sales, use, and telecommunications tax data received monthly from KPMG compliance clients to determine if it is in the proper format for input into KPMG’s mechanized tax processing systems
• Arrange the monthly data received into the proper tax location codes, tax types, tax categories, authority levels, taxpayer entities, and tax amounts
• Apply client-specific business rules to the tax data received from tax compliance clients to modify the data for input into KPMG mechanized tax processing systems
• Once the data is ready for input, process the data for the returns using one or more of KPMG’s mechanized tax systems
• Identify, document, and recommend client technological business requirements for sales, use, and telecommunications tax compliance processes, and system improvements
• Design, test, and troubleshoot indirect tax technology solutions developed using Microsoft Access, Excel, or SQL Server

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of recent and relevant experience
• Bachelor’s degree in business, accounting, or a related field of study from an accredited college/university
• Licensed CPA, EA, JD/LLM, CMI, or MTX (master’s in taxation), in addition to others on KPMG’s approved credential listing; any individual who does not possess at least one of the approved designations/credentials when their employment commences has one year from their date of hire to obtain at least one of the approved designations/credentials
• Development knowledge using Visual Basic for Applications in Microsoft Access, and experience developing in .NET is preferred
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Access, SQL Server, XML, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, or process mapping software and strong technical awareness and basic knowledge of global indirect tax issues
• Strong skills in indirect tax information systems, including strong project management skills and the ability to analyze client business needs
• Experience in reviewing and working with transaction tax data received from the billing systems of wire line/wireless telecommunications companies or cable/broadband companies, and a working knowledge of federal, state, and local telecommunications transaction taxes imposed in the United States

Benefits

KPMG is proud to offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, with options designed to help you make the best decisions for yourself, your family, and your lifestyle. Available benefits are based on eligibility. Our Total Rewards package includes:

• A variety of medical and dental plans, vision coverage, disability and life insurance
• 401(k) plans
• A robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support your mental health
• Personal Time Off per fiscal year, depending on job classification, standard work hours, and years of service
• Two annual breaks where employees will not be required to use Personal Time Off: one at year-end and another around the July 4th holiday

Additional details about our benefits can be found on the KPMG US Careers site under Benefits & How We Work.

Pay

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