State and Local Tax Senior Manager, Managed Services

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KPMG is currently seeking a SALT Senior Manager, Managed Services to join our State and Local Tax (SALT) practice.>

Responsibilities

• Represent SALT within the MS COE on all Managed Services pursuits and engagements; serve as the point person for SALT solution design, resourcing, pricing, and delivery alignment
• Lead development and continuous improvement of the SALT Managed Services playbook (e.g., scope catalogs, SLAs/KPIs, RACIs, operating procedures, controls, quality checkpoints, and knowledge assets) to enable repeatable, scalable delivery
• Collaborate with and guide internal teams and clients through transition and execution of SALT Managed Services, including the data and technology strategy to be deployed (e.g., tax engine configuration, data intake/integration, workflow, automation, reporting)
• Coordinate across workstreams to stabilize projects during mobilization and steady state; manage interdependencies, drive continuous improvement, and promote risk management and quality protocols
• Support SALT MS practice management by maintaining key metrics, pipeline/opportunity status, staffing/resourcing, SLA/KPI performance, and required internal reporting; educate internal teams on indicators of strong SALT MS fit
• Partner on proposals, orals, demos, and market-facing activities; assist engagement teams in building and managing client relationships and team across Tax, Advisory, and Digital/Technology to identify and pursue new opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum eight years of recent tax or accounting experience with strong interest in process and technology (industry experience preferred); substantial experience across core SALT domains such as sales and use tax, income/franchise, property tax, business licenses, and/or unclaimed property
• Experience mentoring and counseling staff to manager level team members
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university; licensed CPA, EA, JD/LLM, MST (Master's in Taxation) or a certified member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation (CMI) designation for non-CPA eligible candidates, 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 designations/credentials; should you like to see the complete list of currently approved designations/credentials for the hiring practice/service line, your recruiter can provide you with that list
• Excellent presentation, written, and verbal communication skills along with strong organizational and delegation skills
• Able to work in a national/international teaming environment and remotely with other team members; capable of working self-sufficiently with appropriate oversight
• Experience with AI tools and/or interest in furthering AI skillset; familiarity with SALT technology platforms (e.g., Vertex, ONESOURCE Indirect Tax, Avalara), enterprise systems/data (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Workday), workflow/automation, and reporting tools, preferred
• Ability to travel 25%

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