Senior Associate, International Tax

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; access 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

• Direct multinational enterprises on business decisions, such as where to locate and operate, choice of entity, how to optimize supply chains, and how to access and mobilize capital to fund global operations, taking into account a multinational’s tax risk profile, global effective tax rate, and cash posture.
• Prepare and review complex tax models illustrating multinational entities' attributes, effective tax rate, and cash tax expense in advising clients.
• Advise multinational enterprises on tax planning decisions, including helping clients anticipate and understand the potential short- and long-term considerations and consequences of tax planning decisions at a global level, in the context of their wider business objectives and taking into account a multinational’s tax risk profile, global effective tax rate, and cash posture.
• In collaboration with colleagues in Mergers & Acquisition Tax, structure the tax aspects of multinational private equity and strategic mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, dispositions, and IPOs, along with drafting tax opinions, memos, structure decks, and Excel models illustrating the tax benefits of alternative structures.
• Assist multinational enterprises with preparing the tax provision for its financial statements and preparing and/or reviewing compliance work product, as well as assisting KPMG audit teams with reviewing a company's financial reporting of tax implications arising from its global operations and transactions.
• Advise clients on income tax treaty planning opportunities arising from inbound and outbound cross-border investing and trading activities.
• For professionals working in the alternative investment space, provide aspects of all the above activities to alternative investment companies, helping at all stages of the investment life cycle for both asset managers and portfolio companies operating globally.

Qualifications

• A minimum of three years of experience working on engagements involving international, mergers and acquisitions, and/or federal tax planning.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university; Master's in Taxation, JD, and/or LLM (with a concentration in tax) preferred.
• Knowledge of a broad range of international and domestic tax law provisions.
• Strong research and writing, Excel modeling, and oral communication skills.
• Ability to balance and lead multiple engagements, play a positive role in well-functioning and collegial client service teams, supervise and assist with the development and training of new and experienced staff professionals, maintain professionalism, and provide excellent client service.
• Ability to develop and deepen client relationships and expand the KPMG footprint in the local and global markets while working with both U.S. and non-U.S. KPMG teams to bring the right services to new and existing clients.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical and dental plans, vision coverage, disability and life insurance.
• 401(k) plans.
• Robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support mental health.
• Personal Time Off per fiscal year, based 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.