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# GCT Director - Tax Transformation

- **Company:** KPMG International Cooperative
- **Location:** Southampton, UK
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Big Data, Databases, Data Transmissions, Data Transformation, Human-Computer Interaction, SQL Databases, Tax Compliance Software, Build Management
- **Published:** July 23, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobs.theguardian.com/job/10157030/gct-director-tax-transformation/

## About the Role

* Deep experience of technology and automation to drive efficiency, risk management and value
 * Excellent communication skills, with the ability to quickly adapt to a range of situations and audiences from both written and oral perspective
 * Strong attention to detail, to enable you to review complex technical problems, whilst maintaining an overall strategic and customer service focused perspective, for all deliverables we produce for our clients
 * Excellent internal networking skills with the ability to confidently and knowledgably communicate with other Managers, Senior Managers, Directors and Partners within our professional services environment
 * Strong business development and client facing skills with a proven history of being able to identify opportunities and convert them to commercial projects
 * Excellent project management skills and an ability to manage your own workload, as well as the workloads of others in your team.

## Description

We are looking for talented Directors to join us with experience in a broad range of areas including:

 * Deep tax compliance, automation and reporting expertise, particularly around indirect taxes, including EMEA compliance
 * Experience of end-to-end finance processes (Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Record-to-report) and their integration with tax
 * Experience advising on appropriate tax technology to support compliance and reporting processes
 * Deep tax technology implementation experience, including requirements gathering from a tax, IT & User Interface perspective, and creating and reviewing design documentation
 * Deep tax transformation experience, including tax governance, process design and improvement
 * Project management
 * Client and engagement management

In addition to these key areas, other desirable but not essential skills include:

 * ERP implementation experience
 * Data, data bases, data transmission and data transformation including an understanding of structured query language (SQL)
 * Analysing large volumes of data
 * Designing cloud-based practical applications from a tax perspective
 * Acting as a functionality translator, being the primary liaison between technology teams and tax teams

Roles & Responsibilities:

 * Leading the overall delivery of tax transformation and technology projects, often as part of a wider finance transformation program
 * Helping clients to design, build and deploy automation solutions which are designed for Tax
 * Supporting our clients in designing systems which address tax requirements in different countries in the optimal way
 * Working together with Tax Transformation and GCT colleagues as well as other teams in KPMG such as Consulting
 * Helping clients develop robust global governance and control frameworks
 * Develop our service offerings and service delivery models
 * Establishing and maintaining strong client relationships with our clients
 * Performance manage Senior Managers and Managers and oversee the output from offshore resource in order to deliver client projects;
 * Identify opportunities to provide additional services that the client may need and liaise with subject specialists
 * Coaching and technical support for other team members
 * Follow KPMG best practice and policy.


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