Senior Associate - Transfer Pricing Centre of Excellence

ASPAC Regional Team

As part of the regional team you will play an integral role in helping firms meet our collective Trust and Growth ambition, promoting consistency and collaboration, so that KPMG Inspires Confidence and Empowers Change for our clients and talent. This role presents an exciting opportunity to build relationships with senior leaders across member firms throughout the Asia Pacific region.

The role

Transfer Pricing is a rapidly expanding field within International Tax, and at KPMG, we are at the forefront of this exciting growth area. Our dedicated Transfer Pricing team is committed to helping multinational groups navigate the complexities of global transfer pricing compliance, including the preparation of master files, local files, and benchmarking. We leverage our market-leading technology, structured processes, and a team of dedicated TP compliance specialists to deliver exceptional results.

Deliverables and accountabilities

This role involves working on a range of projects.

• Key involvement in global transfer pricing compliance projects where we prepare transfer pricing local files and master files for clients across multiple jurisdictions.  This role involves working on a range of compliance projects across a varied client base in both size of business and industry.
• Developing and maintaining client relationships for global transfer pricing compliance projects.
• Project management in relation to the provision of our services.
• Attending functional interviews with clients to understand activities and value drivers for our clients’ businesses to prepare transfer pricing analyses.
• Determining key industry features across varied industries that influence the pricing of transactions and preparing transfer pricing analyses.
• Prepare/review benchmarking analyses across industries and transaction types (TNMM and CUP).
• Managing the delivery of reports on time and meeting high quality standards.
• Understand and implement KPMG’s transfer pricing technology for preparation of local files.
• Prepare/review transfer pricing local files using KPMG’s transfer pricing technology.
• Coordinating with KPMG’s transfer pricing, international tax, indirect tax and other teams across the business and across multiple jurisdictions on a range of topics relating to transfer pricing compliance.
• As part of the TP CoE team actively contribute to leadership discussions and help to implement continuous improvement to processes within the team.
• Lead or assist with business development and project scoping process as necessary for new global transfer pricing documentation proposals including preparing scope and fee quotes and presenting in client pitches/demos.

Skills and experience

• Either a CTA, CA, ACA, ACCA qualification or attained a Bachelors or Masters degree in economics, finance, law, accounting or equivalent qualification.
• At least 3 years of transfer pricing experience, preferably including experience of preparing and reviewing transfer pricing documentation and local files, conducting/participating in functional interviews, preparing/reviewing functional analyses, preparing and reviewing benchmarking, supporting with tax authority enquiries, project.
• Strong project management/co-ordination skills and experience (e.g. on global transfer compliance outsourcing engagements, tax/accounting outsourcing programmes or similar projects).
• Experience in process design and implementation.
• Experience in transition, change management and stakeholder management.
• Sound judgement, including the ability to identify and evaluate risk issues and know when to involve others.
• Good commercial awareness and a desire to develop a technical specialism.
• Ability and willingness to keep up to date technically with global transfer pricing compliance obligations.
• An appreciation of and/or understanding of ethical/risk issues within a client service environment.
• Strong people skills for engaging with our clients and team members in the region and overseas.
• Strong understanding of technology and its application in compliance is desirable                                                                                                                                                 

Leadership and behaviours

• Role models purpose-driven and values-led leadership. Consistently demonstrates KPMG values Integrity, Excellence, Courage, Together, For Better.
• Inspires others by developing and motivating others, being an advocate of inclusion and connecting individuals by building collaboration.
• Demonstrates a growth mindset by growing self, others and relationships through self-awareness, innovation, and an exceptional client experience.
• Makes an impact by driving quality, bringing strategic perspective, and tackling difficult decisions by exercising sound, ethical business judgement.

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