Assistant Manager - Asset Management - Alternatives

KPMG-UnitedKingdom; Bristol; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

KPMG is seeking a candidate for their corporate tax team in Bristol. The role involves tax advisory and compliance services, offering opportunities to specialise in Alternative Funds. Candidates must have relevant qualifications and strong interpersonal skills, ensuring a collaborative work environment.

Qualifications

• Qualifications include CTA, ACA, CA or equivalent.
• Strong UK corporate tax knowledge required.
• Experience in financial services is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide tax advisory services and compliance management.
• Develop and lead client relationships.
• Conduct detailed technical research for tax advice.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Analytical skills

Team management

Computational skills

Communication skills

Education

CTA or ACA/CA or equivalent

Tools

Alphatax

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Bristol, United Kingdom

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Posted:

25.06.2025

Expiry Date:

09.08.2025

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The Role:

The KPMG financial services corporate tax team is a fast-growing part of the KPMG tax practice. We are looking for excellent candidates who are seeking a dynamic and challenging working environment within a strong supportive leadership team. Our team has a diverse client and target base spanning the Financial Services sector - providing services to traditional asset managers and financial services institutions, private equity funds, alternative investors, the real estate sector, wealth and hedge asset managers, UK pension funds and global institutional investors.

The team is diverse and collaborative, with individuals based across London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol and Edinburgh, we embraced hybrid and flexible working long before it became the norm! Our team has a mix of backgrounds, people who have spent their entire career in professional services, or those with tax, legal, accounting, and regulatory backgrounds as well as a number of people who have joined from industry and bring real practical experience to the way we can help clients. Whatever your background we will give you the support, encouragement, and training to thrive at KPMG.

We are looking for a candidate with a particular interest in providing clients with corporate and income tax advisory and compliance services, ideally with experience in the Alternative funds market sector.

Successful candidates will have the opportunity to specialise in Alternative Funds.

We would be happy to have an informal chat with you to discuss opportunities in more detail.

The Responsibilities
The role involves a mix of tax advisory services and compliance management. This will include:

- Developing and leading client relationships and the KPMG team (including where relevant the wider client service team).

- Understanding the client's business and working with the team to identify areas for the provision of tax and other services.

- Ownership of the provision of tax advice on a wide range of projects, undertaking detailed technical research.

- Where relevant, taking responsibility for the finalised deliverables in the tax compliance process (partnership tax returns, corporation tax returns and investor reports) and undertaking tax accounting work to assist clients with their statutory reporting process.

- Involvement in business development activity, including developing and advising on cutting-edge client propositions.

- Ensuring all risk procedures are adhered to.

The Person
The successful candidate will have the following skills:

• Qualified CTA or ACA/CA or equivalent.

• Strong knowledge of UK corporate tax or income tax and an awareness of other tax and accounting areas. Previous experience within the financial services sector would be an advantage but is not a requirement.

• Strong interpersonal skills in addition to strong oral and written communication skills.

• High level analytical skills and a commercial approach to resolving issues and providing advice.

• Ability to work as part of a multifunctional team.

• Strong task and team management skills.

• Ability to build client relationships.

• Good computational and excel skills.

• Good technology skills - experience of Alphatax would be advantageous but not essential