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Senior Associate Tax

Job Description:
When you choose KPMG as the place to build your career in tax, you can really add value. KPMG's tax partners and professionals pride themselves on understanding our clients' business strategy and needs, providing a broad range of federal, state, local and international tax services to meet those needs. Together with other KPMG International member firms we provide services that help address our clients' tax needs close to home and around the world. We are currently seeking a Senior Associate to join us in our New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, or Dallas office.

Responsibilities:

• Complete and execute one or more client engagements at the same time, while providing high quality work on every engagement
• Provide input into engagement decisions including work plan and timeline, budget management and resource allocation
• Work concurrently on multiple engagements
• Provide analysis of existing tax or fixed asset data
• Perform conversion of accounting or fixed assets data from existing systems to new systems, including reconciliations of data between prior and successor systems
• Implement improved processes for tax or fixed asset accounting
• Work cooperatively with team members
• Prioritize workload for self
• Communicate project status to supervisor on regular and as needed basis
• Contribute to a positive work environment by being accessible and involved
• Foster personal and professional growth by working with a mentor
• Lead or provide support to engagement manager in leading client service delivery of engagement
• Begin to take responsibility for portions of engagement planning and job administration
• Understand the impact of external factors affecting the client’s business/industry
• Keep management informed on progress of engagement and client relationship issues needing attention
• Recognize, research, and recommend resolution of data issues with little or no supervision
• Develop strong relationships with client, employees and management
• Meet established budgets on engagements through effective planning and execution
• Contribute to a high performance work environment
• Be vigilant in the execution of engagements consistent with Firm’s quality and client service standards
• Support practice growth planning while adhering to risk management policies and resource requirements
• Provide assistance on tax provision work for audit engagements as appropriate for clients served as requested

Qualifications:
• Bachelor's degree, J.D., LL.M. in Taxation, and/or Master's in Taxation (MST) from an accredited college/university
• Three years of experience in basic accounting and income taxes, including experience in account reconciliations
• Experience in data acquisition or extraction from enterprise systems such as SAP or PeopleSoft
• Experience in managing and manipulating data using Microsoft Access, including structuring data for transfer and load to recipient systems
• Ability to interface with clients and communicate data matters in a manner client can understand
• Ability to manage client expectations
• Ability to manage multiple client engagements
• Strong written and verbal skills with the ability to work well both autonomously and collaboratively
• Demonstrated application of analytical skills to perform calculations and articulate issues of average complexity
• Ability to travel 40 – 60 Percent

KPMG offers and supports flexible work arrangements as well as part-time schedules. We also offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package.
Interested? We strongly encourage you to apply online at www.kpmgcareers.com and search for requisition 21410.

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