Tax Manager or Senior Manager, Real Estate Deals and Transactions (San Jose)

KPMG US

San Jose, CA 95199

United States

Posted July 1, 2025

{FULL_TIME,INTERN}

Senior Level

Management

Valid until July 31, 2025

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Tax Manager or Senior Manager, Real Estate Deals and Transactions

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At KPMG, you can become an integral part of a dynamic team at one of the world's top tax firms. Enjoy a collaborative, future-forward culture that empowers your success. Work with KPMG's extensive network of specialists; enjoy access to our Ignition Centers, where deep industry knowledge merges with cutting-edge technologies to create innovative tax solutions. Join a diverse team helping high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. Develop your career through a range of multifaceted engagements, formal training, and informal mentoring. At KPMG, we believe nothing is more important than investing in our culture because it's an investment in our people, our future, and what we stand for as a firm.
KPMG is currently seeking a to join our Business Tax Services practice.
Responsibilities:

Structure the tax aspects of multinational global private equity real estate investments, including with respect to strategic mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, dispositions, and Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), along with drafting tax opinions, memos, structure decks and Excel models illustrating the tax benefits of alternative structures
Assess tax impact on clients of tax rules, regulations, and law changes, develop tax arguments to support conclusions and make recommendations to clients
Work with other practice groups including Washington National Tax (WNT), Mergers and Acquisition Tax and member firms of KPMG throughout the world
Review tax memoranda and tax opinions; prepare tax structuring papers, review funds flow and documentation required to implement a structure; act as the first point of contact for internal and external clients
Ability to balance and lead multiple engagements, play a positive role in well-functioning and collegial client service teams, supervise, and assist with the development and training of new and experienced staff professionals, maintain professionalism, and provide excellent client service
Oversee engagement process and other risk management activities; lead teams of tax professionals/assistants working on client projects

Additional Responsibilities for Senior Manager:

Manage risk and financial performance of engagements, including billing, collections, and the budget for projects
Team with other professionals to identify new marketplace opportunities and grow the KPMG tax practice

Qualifications:

Minimum five years of recent experience working on engagements involving partnership, mergers, and acquisitions and/or federal tax planning at a law firm or accounting firm
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university; licensed Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Enrolled Agent (EA) or Juris Doctor/Master of Laws (JD/LLM), 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
Experience managing multiple client engagements and client service teams of various size and scope within the alternative investment fund industry (private equity, real estate and/or hedge funds)
Proficient in the taxation of partnerships and tiered investment fund structures and knowledge of a broad range of domestic and international tax law provisions
Ability to develop and deepen client relationships and expand the KPMG footprint in the local and global markets while working with both U.S. and non-U.S. KPMG teams to bring the right services to new and existing clients
Strong research and writing skills; excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to articulate complex information

Additional Qualifications for Senior Manager:

Minimum eight years of recent experience working on engagements involving partnership, mergers, and acquisitions and/or federal tax planning at a law firm or accounting firm

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