Senior Manager, Compensation & Benefits

Senior Manager, Compensation & Benefits

At KPMG, you can become an integral part of a dynamic team at one of the world's top tax firms. Enjoy a collaborative, future-forward culture that empowers your success. Work with KPMG's extensive network of specialists; enjoy access to our Ignition Centers, where deep industry knowledge merges with cutting-edge technologies to create innovative tax solutions. Join a diverse team helping high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. Develop your career through a range of multifaceted engagements, formal training, and informal mentoring. At KPMG, we believe nothing is more important than investing in our culture because it's an investment in our people, our future, and what we stand for as a firm.

KPMG is currently seeking a Senior Manager, Compensation & Benefits to join our Global Mobility Services (GMS) practice. Responsibilities include delivering and managing a team focused on assisting our clients through a corporate transaction event (such as merger and acquisition, divestiture, IPO) from a tax and operational perspective focused on employee reward. This includes identifying and analyzing tax and operational matters that may contribute to tax exposure, drafting technical memorandums, mapping and designing post-transaction operational processes and compliance, executive and employee communications, post-transaction integration of compensation, benefits, and share-based compensation programs worldwide; performing above responsibilities outside deal context to the extent necessary. Cultivate and maintain senior-level client relationships; advise and deliver on technical, compliance, and operational matters with depth and a high-level of accountability for quality service delivery, driving project management and anticipating client needs. Lead engagement teams on daily engagement service delivery and operations, ensuring effective and efficient delivery of compliance and consulting services. Manage quality, risk, and financial performance of engagements, including team assignments, timely billing, collections, and budget. Collaborate, contribute, and present to external / internal clients and perform business development activities cross functionally including active participation in external / internal firm events. Coach and mentor other tax professionals; responsible for the development and motivation of the engagement team.

Qualifications : Minimum seven years of recent experience in employer benefit strategies; preferred experience in at least three of the following areas : total rewards and benefits, global compensation and equity sourcing and taxation, domestic and global employment tax compliance and consulting, mergers and acquisitions advisory, executive compensation and compensation integration, mobility tax compliance and consulting, corporate taxation, ASC 718, ASC 740, share-based compensation delivery and data and analytics. Bachelor's degree from an accredited college / university in accounting, finance, business, economics, mathematics, computer science, or a related field required. Law degree is a plus. Licensed CPA, EA, JD / LLM or completion of one of the advanced degrees or professional designations : MBA, Associate of the Society of Actuaries (ASOA), Engineering News-Record (ENR), American College Testing (ACT), Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA), Certified Benefits Professional (CBP), Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS), Certified Payroll Professional (CPP), Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR), Professional in Human Resources (PHR), or Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), in addition to others on KPMG's approved credential listing. Any individual who does not possess at least one of the approved designations / credentials when their employment commences, has one year from their date of hire to obtain at least one of the approved.