Associate 2 - UK Global Payroll Management

Job Description

*We are recruiting for the Associate 2 position in the UK Individual Expatriate Tax team with subject matter expertise in UK Individual Tax Compliance and Payroll Services Industry. Sitting within the Global Mobility Service practice, the Global Compensation Services group, through market-leading technology solutions, assist clients to transform the way they manage the global compensation collection process for internationally mobile employees. This ensures that employer and employee compliance obligations are being met on a real-time basis around the world. KPMG offers an integrated, centrally managed global compliance process from initial data collection, data cleansing, data validation, data analysis, application of consistent tax and social security positions to the provision of clear payroll instruction outputs on a monthly, quarterly or year-end basis. KPMG has recently developed Global Payroll Manager (GPM) which is a fully automated web-based global payroll solution allowing organisations to better manage cross border payroll compliance, management reporting, recharges and internal control requirements for their globally mobile workforce. GPM, transform assignee demographic data, cash compensation and non-cash benefit data to produce fully reconciled monthly, quarterly and year-end host payroll instructions in both the home and host country of an internationally mobile assignee. This dynamic group using GPM is expected to expand significantly over the next two years and win significant market share. The team is diverse with an experienced network of professionals from expatriate and employment tax, payroll advisory, technology, data analytics, finance and accounting. Working as Associate 2 in this team, your responsibilities will include:
• Responsible for the day-to-day management of all aspect of data management. Duties involve capture, manipulation, formatting, consolidation, validation, reconciliation, storage, analysis and reporting of data sources. Data is provided in multiple formats, from various sources globally (client and external vendors) principally in Excel.
• Data analytics specialist to assist in the capture, reconciliation and reporting of global compensation
• Responsible for tracking numerous global data capture templates
• Manipulation of data for processing
• Working closely with the Tax Technology team to ensure best practice
• Contribute/provide process improvement, and recommend areas of automation
• Ability to define tax rules that aid an effective technology build
• Ownership of KPMG s web-based client portal
• User acceptance testing
• Responsibility loading, mapping and downloading client payroll instructions to our global co-ordination database or to KPMG s Global Payroll Manager Software
• Provide day to day support to Senior Associates and Assistant Managers to assist with the delivery of payroll services.
  • Raise appropriate information requests to gather outstanding data from clients.
  • Draft client correspondence documents (emails, letters, reports etc.) at relevant points throughout the compliance cycle. Participating in telephone calls with clients, other KPMG team members and Client Service Teams.
  • Being proactive in owning/managing your client allocation & flexible in working arrangements.
  • Performing other ad hoc tax compliance related activities as and when required.
  • Follow firm s best practice and policy around the compliance process.
, * Mandatory Skills
• Degree from reputable university with excellent academic result, majoring Accounting, Finance or a similar field.
• Ability to manage multiple projects to strict deadlines
• Problem solving and troubleshooting skills
• Disciplined in process documentation
• Able to occasionally work extended hours to provide support to the business during critical phases of an activity or project will be required
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office software programs, including MS Outlook and Excel
• Must have strong English communication skills (CEFR Level of B1 or higher).
• CA, ACCA, ACA, ICAI and/or ATT / CTA qualification would be an advantage.
Preferred Skills
• Interest or experience of benefits, compensation, management reporting, global mobility, expatriate tax or expatriate payroll services.
• Hard working, enthusiastic and self-motivated.
• Able to adapt quickly to use new technologies.
• Professionalism, dependability, integrity and trustworthiness combined with a cooperative attitude.
• Highly motivated self-starter with ability to multitask and to work proactively with minimal instruction.
• Prioritisation and time management skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.

Keyskills :
tax compliancecontent managementrecord keepingpresentation skills