Associate, Tax

Job Description

Tax Middle Officer

Job Description

Purpose

Lead and manage the operational Risk Management activities for the Tax practice to achieve consistency, maintain quality, increase speed to market, and enhance risk management compliance, thereby eventually freeing up time for engagement teams to serve clients.

Key Responsibilities
Sentinel
Follow up outstanding NAS checklists for Audit clients and Sentinel requests
Follow up outstanding independence confirmations from EP, EM & EQCR for PIEs and Audit clients
CBC
Raise the CBC request for submission to the CBC team
Contracts and insurance
Initiate the contract review process: check contracts against the precedent database and designated account list, and the review and approval requirements in the Decision Matrix of the Engagement Contract Review Consultation Policy; submit to relevant parties where required
Obtain FRMP and SLL approvals for contract deviations according to legal instructions
Submit contract to Arabic translators for onward submission to legal team
Log and maintain tickets for all client and third-party contracts submitted for RM-CRT review
Obtain engagement specific insurance and/or insurance confirmation from KPMGI
Third parties
Raise the CBC request for submission to the CBC team
Follow up with engagement team for independence and training completion confirmations
Raise the third-party CEAC
CEAC
Raise the CEAC (client and engagement)
Job code opening
Monitor CollectoR for completion of steps through to ‘ready for job code opening’ status
Document retention
Maintain electronic files with all Risk Management-related documentation for each opportunity and engagement
Ensure compliance with document retention protocols
Training
Attend specialist Risk Management training annually and transfer knowledge to the wider team.
Quality reviews
Assist the Engagement Leaders and Managers selected for Compliance Review and/or QPR with the preparation of the engagement files

Knowledge/technical Skills
Sentinel, CBC, CEAC, CollectoR, iHelp
Procedures on client, third party and engagement onboarding
Engagement Contract Review Consultation Policy
Job code opening process
Document retention policy

Interpersonal Skills
Excellent team worker
Ability to work efficiently and effectively under pressure to meet multiple, tight deadlines
Strong oral and written communication skills

SLAs
To be defined for each key responsibility

Resources
Global Quality & Risk Management Manual (GQ&RMM)
GQ&RM websites
Policy alerts, memos and guidance issued by Risk Management
Global Risk alerts
Regulatory and QPR reviews

Grievance Handling and Escalation Process
Any issue should be discussed with the Head of Tax, COO Tax and the Risk Management Partner