Senior Associate, International Tax

About the role

KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Associate to join our International Tax practice. Enjoy a collaborative, future-forward culture that empowers your success and 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 multifaceted engagements, formal training, and informal mentoring.

Responsibilities

• Direct multinational enterprises on business decisions such as where to locate and operate, choice of entity, supply-chain optimization, and capital mobilization, considering 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.
• Advise on tax planning decisions, helping clients anticipate short- and long-term consequences at a global level in line with their business objectives and risk profile.
• Structure tax aspects of multinational private equity and strategic mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, dispositions, and IPOs; draft tax opinions, memos, structure decks, and Excel models illustrating tax benefits of alternative structures.
• Assist with preparing tax provisions for financial statements, compliance work product, and reviewing financial reporting of tax implications arising from global operations and transactions.
• Advise on income tax treaty planning opportunities for inbound and outbound cross-border investing and trading activities.
• Provide aspects of the above activities to alternative investment companies across the investment life cycle for both asset managers and portfolio companies operating globally.

Qualifications

• Minimum of three years of experience on engagements involving international, mergers and acquisitions, and/or federal tax planning.
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or 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, contribute to collegial client service teams, supervise and assist with development and training of staff, maintain professionalism, and deliver excellent client service.
• Ability to develop and deepen client relationships and expand KPMG’s footprint in local and global markets while collaborating with U.S. and non-U.S. KPMG teams.