Transfer Pricing - Economic Analyst

KPMG
London - United Kingdom
S: GBP28,000-34,000

KPMG's transfer pricing practice is a dynamic and successful area of our business. A constantly changing and increasingly high-profile field, transfer pricing can offer a surprisingly broad range of quality career paths to ambitious people.

We are a national team of 85 transfer pricing specialists including 5 partners mostly based in London and key UK cities. We are a diverse team, with people from very different backgrounds. We have a strong reputation for quality and ambitious growth targets for the coming years.

Staff are allocated to industry teams, but have lots of flexibility to work across industry sectors, and with different partners and directors. More specialism is expected at senior manager level and above. There is a good mix of economists, finance specialists and tax professionals with backgrounds from industry, practice and HMRC. There are currently 15 economists (all with PhD or Masters degrees), who frequently get together to share knowledge and ideas in order to apply economic concepts to our client's transfer pricing questions.

Roles and Responsibilities

The work we do as economists in transfer pricing includes:
- Price planning & optimisation studies
- Benchmarking of market prices across all industries and transaction types
- Implementation of pricing methods for clients
- Advance Pricing Agreements
- Valuation (mostly of IP assets)
- Tax authority enquiries
- M&A due diligence - deal support
- Documentation of pricing policies

The Opportunity

We are recruiting people with an economics or finance background to join our team. We are especially interested in graduates with Masters degrees in economics or finance to join our growing team. Candidates with work experience are also encouraged to apply, and will be considered for more senior positions based on experience.

This role provides:
- An opportunity to apply economics/ finance to the practical micro-economic problems of our clients
- Interesting and diverse projects
- Opportunity for overseas secondments
- Working in new and innovative technical areas
- KPMG's first class training programmes and focus on personal and career development
- Opportunity to work with market-leading specialists
- Promotion prospects

We require:
- Economists with a Masters/PhD degree in Economics or Finance
- Highly motivated individuals with drive, enthusiasm and good work ethic
- Strong technical specialists with good people skills

Opening date: 29/07/2014
Closing date: 28/08/2014

Salary range: £28,000 - £34,000

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