Ignition - Tax Consulting Associate (Sep 2025)

Career Level Requirement

Early Career

If you are currently pursuing college coursework or have completed a bachelor’s degree or higher in the past 12 months.

KPMG recruits on a rolling basis. Candidates are considered as they apply, until the opportunity is filled. You are encouraged to apply expeditiously to one role for which you are qualified and is of the greatest interest. You are limited to a maximum of two active applications. Give serious thought to your location preference. We strongly recommend applying to the location where you want to build your life and career long-term.

• Start Season & Year: Fall 2025
• Earliest Graduation Date: Jun 2024
• Latest Graduation Date: Sep 2025

At KPMG, you can become an integral part of a dynamic team at one of the world's top professional services firms. Enjoy a collaborative, future-forward culture that empowers your success. Work with KPMGs extensive network of specialists & enjoy access to our Ignition Centers, where deep industry knowledge merges with cutting-edge technologies to create innovative 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 has an investment in our people, our future, and what we stand for as a firm.

KPMG is currently seeking an Associate to join our Ignition practice.

Responsibilities:

• Work with internal stakeholders and external clients to:
  • Identify business challenges
  • Understand operational, data, and information requirements for tax processes while understanding technology environment and interfaces
  • Develop recommendations and innovative, technology-driven approaches for improvement including optimizing resources, processes and controls, and technology
• Work toward specialization of various ERP, low code / no code technologies, generative AI, tax systems, and tax applications to help KPMG Tax Ignition develop competency in these areas and leverage these technologies to implement solutions to business problems
• Collect and extract complex datasets from various source systems and file types, load datasets into various software platforms and tools and perform cleaning, normalization, aggregating, and combining of data sets into usable forms; test for accuracy and completeness, reconcile and analyze data, visualize, report and communicate results
• Actively participate in proof of concepts, workshops, hackathons, and vendor product evaluations as well as help prepare documentation and analytical reports that effectively summarize and present procedures, assumptions, and conclusions using Word, Visio, PowerPoint, and other applications
• Develop and manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables within a collaborative environment with clients, member firms, and other team members  

Qualifications:

• Must be pursuing and have obtained by the start date or have completed the following degrees/majors in the past 12 months: Bachelors and/or Masters degree in Accounting, Tax, Business Analytics, Data & Analytics, Economics, Finance, Management Information Systems, Statistics, or a related field from an accredited college or university
• Preferred GPA of 3.0 or above
• Demonstrated quality service mindset; strong technical aptitude, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills and ability to navigate MS Office applications, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook
• Basic knowledge of one or more technologies such as Excel, VBA, Power Query/Power Pivot, Alteryx, Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, generative AI, SharePoint, R, Python, SQL Server, SAP, Oracle, ONESOURCE tax applications, Corptax, Longview
• Coursework or other experience working with relational databases such as SQL Server or Oracle, supporting large data sets, including extraction from source systems, data cleansing and transformations, and providing preliminary descriptive and advanced analytics findings to business challenges preferred
• Excellent communication, time management, quantitative, and leadership skills; flexible and adaptable team player; and resourceful in delivering high-quality work
• Must reside within a reasonably commutable distance to the office for this position and be able to travel to reasonably commutable work locations using own means of transportation, such as a personal vehicle or public transportation
• Ability to travel and/or work on-site at client premises as needed, at times with relatively short notice
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT, or any other employment-based visa)

KPMG complies with all local/state regulations regarding displaying salary ranges. Any offered salary is determined based on relevant factors such as applicant's skills, job responsibilities, prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and market considerations. In addition, the firm is proud to offer a comprehensive, competitive benefits package, with options designed to help you make the best decisions for yourself, your family, and your lifestyle. Available benefits are based on eligibility. Our Total Rewards package includes a variety of medical and dental plans, vision coverage, disability and life insurance, 401(k) plans, and a robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support your mental health. Depending on job classification, standard work hours, and years of service, KPMG provides Personal Time Off per fiscal year. Additionally, each year the firm publishes a calendar of holidays to be observed during the year and provides two firmwide breaks each year where employees will not be required to use Personal Time Off; one is at year-end and the other is around the July 4th holiday.