Senior Associate - Transfer Pricing Centre of Excellence

About the role

KPMG in Singapore is hiring a Senior Associate for its Transfer Pricing Centre of Excellence within the Asia Pacific regional team. The role sits in the fast-growing field of international tax transfer pricing, supporting multinational groups with global transfer pricing compliance, including master files, local files and benchmarking. It involves a range of compliance projects across a varied client base and requires close coordination with transfer pricing, international tax and other teams.

Key responsibilities

• Work on global transfer pricing compliance projects, preparing and reviewing local files and master files for clients across multiple jurisdictions.
• Develop and maintain client relationships and manage the delivery of reports on time and to a high standard.
• Attend functional interviews with clients to understand their activities and value drivers, and determine industry features that affect transaction pricing.
• Prepare and review benchmarking analyses (TNMM and CUP).
• Implement KPMG's transfer pricing technology for preparing local files.
• Coordinate with transfer pricing, international tax, indirect tax and other teams across the business and jurisdictions.
• Contribute to leadership discussions and help implement continuous improvement within the team.
• Lead or assist with business development and project scoping for new global transfer pricing documentation proposals, including scope and fee quotes and client pitches.

Required profile

• A CTA, CA, ACA, ACCA qualification, or a bachelor's or master's degree in economics, finance, law, accounting or an equivalent field.
• At least 3 years of transfer pricing experience, preferably including preparing and reviewing documentation and local files, functional interviews and analyses, benchmarking, tax authority enquiries and project work.
• Strong project management and coordination skills, experience in process design, and in transition, change management and stakeholder management.
• Good commercial awareness, strong people skills, and the ability to identify and evaluate risk issues.

Required skills

• Understanding of global transfer pricing compliance obligations and of TNMM and CUP methods.
• Strong understanding of technology and its application in compliance is desirable.