Manager, Tax - Ignition

At KPMG, you can become an integral part of a dynamic team at one of the worlds top tax firms. Enjoy a collaborative, future-forward culture that empowers your success. Work with KPMGs 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.

KPMG is currently seeking a Manager to join our Ignition practice.

• 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 KPMGs 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 KPMGs 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

• 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; should you like to see the complete list of currently approved designations/credentials for the hiring practice/service line, your recruiter can provide you with that list

• 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

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