Roles & responsibilities
•Learn and apply tax compliance process standards for multiple types of corporate and/or partnership projects from initiation through completion.
•Facilitate tax data gathering and document management for preparation of intermediate to complex tax return filings and deliverables. Analyze and process the tax and financial data received using one or more of KPMG's proprietary tax technology tools to produce tax compliance client deliverables.
•Provide day-to-day advice and guidance for preparers on engagement assignments.
•Ability to handle multiple processes, contributors and aspects of projects to deliver completed work products within a defined timeline and in accordance with quality control standards.
•Work with a multi-disciplinary team utilizing effective communication and collaboration skills to achieve common goals that contribute to quality client service.
•Participate in periodic training and professional development.
•Apply knowledge of tax technology and process to optimize use, improve quality and guide peers to provide tax deliverables and services.
Experience & Qualifications:
•Bachelor’s Degree in accounting or MBA finance from reputable universities with excellent academic result, majoring in Accounting, Taxation or Finance.
•Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Excel required, tax compliance technology software and tax compliance process standards required
•Understanding of annual US and state tax return compliance requirements for corporate and/or partnership entity types required.
•Demonstrate effective verbal, written and organizational skills to communicate clearly and professionally with team members and engagement teams; attention to project details, timelines and work ethic to accomplish project assignments
•Ability to handle multiple engagements concurrently, prioritize competing tasks; demonstrate attention to project details, timelines and work ethic to accomplish project assignments.
Federal Tax
Ability to process manual/hybrid and automatic book/tax differences using tax technical analysis provided
Ability to populate intermediate single entity and consolidated/combined federal, state and international tax returns, utilizing tax software, tools and provided inputs of complex items
Ability to perform effective self-review to produce a quality work product with minimal errors.
Evidence of quantitative / financial analytic ability, related technology and problem solving skills to articulate and resolve issues of simple to moderate complexity.
Intermediate tax compliance process knowledge and technology skills in 1-2 focus areas such as Partnerships, Corporate, State or International.
Developing knowledge of a broad range of taxation technical topics and entity types within your service line, i.e. corporate, consolidations, and partnerships and ASC 740
Awareness of Industries within a tax entity type, and identification of relevant tax compliance and technology considerations.
State and Local Tax
Beginner proficiency in Utilization of state tax resources including filing matrix, e-file summary chart, partnership matrices, Fund of Funds templates, and State Compliance Workbook
Evidence of intermediate state and local tax knowledge including, multi-jurisdictional, income franchise and indirect tax concepts, among others
Knowledge of basic partnership and corp. state concepts such as lower-tier withholding and entity-level taxes, separate vs. combined filings, franchise taxes, etc.
