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.

• Deliver and manage 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, including 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, and post-transaction integration of compensation, benefits and share-based compensation programs worldwide.
• 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 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.

• 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 or 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 approved advanced degrees or professional designations (e.g., MBA, ASOA, ENR, ACT, FSA, CBP, CCP, CEBS, CPP, GPHR, PHR, SPHR). If you do not possess an approved designation at hire, you have one year from your date of hire to obtain at least one.
• Strong project management skills with experience in leading multiple large, complex, multinational client engagements and client service teams; ability to prioritize projects and anticipate client needs, identify and develop client service opportunities, and foster client relationships by demonstrating technical and operational proficiency.
• Ability to reimagine and convey innovative ideas, approaches and solutions in people, process and technology to meet client needs while being flexible and adaptable to change.
• Excellent advisory, quantitative, analytical and project management skills with strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills; capability to articulate complex information in a timely manner and a commitment to quality and results with exceptional…