Tax Technology Senior Associate at KPMG

Job Description

Tax Technology Senior Associate at KPMG

Key roles and responsibilities

• Work effectively with clients across multiple sectors and tax domain experts to develop and enhance tax technology solutions.
• Assist in the development of a work plan, budget, and quality plan to ensure efficiency, high performance, and high-quality work on engagements.
• Build an understanding of client business and markets to assist in the development of client relationships and developing a commercial mindset on how work performed impacts profitability at the engagement and practice levels.
• Supervise staff level engagement team in the field. Direct and review the work product of associates and provides direction and training as necessary.
• Ensure risk management through completion of risk management documents and ensure they are approved accordingly.
• Managing own and your team’s learning and development by identifying learning needs and taking appropriate steps to address these.
• Ongoing improvement of our tax technology solutions.
• Assist with data acquisition from disparate systems and in different formats including web, databases and excel.
• Perform data analyses, generate, and test hypotheses using Machine Learning and statistical analysis methods to identify patterns and communicate findings via visualization tools.
• Document technical procedures and best practices.
• Respond to client inquiries in a timely and professional manner.
• Stay up to date with tax regulations and technology trends.

Academic/Professional qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, business, finance, statistics, Information Technology or related field from an accredited university.
• Professional qualifications e.g., ACCA, CPA are highly desirable.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications and performing internet research.
• A minimum of four years of experience working with tax data and tax technology.
• Skills, and comfort interacting with C-level professionals
• Excellent structuring and tax advisory skills.
• Demonstrated ETL solution design and build expertise, and work stream management skills.
• Experience with common data science toolkits, such as R, NumPy, MatLab, etc.
• Deep knowledge/experience in statistics, data mining, machine learning, and/or natural language processing.
• At least 2 years working experience designing automation solutions.

Personal attributes:

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills and the ability to articulate complex information.
• Ability to build positive relationships with team members and clients.
• Ability to handle simultaneously multiple engagements and client service teams.
• Flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks.
• Strong organizational skills
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.

We offer:

• An exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting edge clients across Africa.
• Continuous learning and development.
• Exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams.
• Unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.
• Opportunity for international travel.

Tax Technology Senior Associate at KPMG