Indirect Tax Technology Intern (May 2025)

Your role

Join a diverse team helping high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. Develop your career through multifaceted engagements, formal training, and informal mentoring.

KPMG is seeking a Tax Intern to join their State & Local Tax practice.

Responsibilities:

• Assist clients with gathering and documenting business and system requirements.
• Help analyze complex business problems to be solved with automated systems.
• Communicate to clients in a timely and effective manner.
• Work with cross-functional teams to address business or systems issues.
• Help develop the necessary process documents, data intake forms, tools and work plans required for each project.
• Understand business rules and requirements and apply knowledge to client applications and deliverables.
• Build capabilities in key technologies that enable tax professionals for client service delivery such as artificial intelligence (AI), Alteryx, Power BI, and more.

About you

Qualifications:

• Must be enrolled in an accredited college or university and pursuing the following degrees/majors: Bachelor and/or Master in Business, Accounting, Systems, or equivalent program.
• Upon completion of this internship, candidates must have additional academic credits to complete before obtaining their degree and/or CPA eligibility requirements.
• Preferred GPA of 3.0 or above.
• Proficiency in one or more of the following is preferred, but not required: MS Access, VB, Power BI, Alteryx and/or SQL.
• Demonstrated quality service mindset; strong technical aptitude, critical thinking skills and ability to navigate MS Office applications including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Project, Visio or other process mapping software.
• Excellent communication, time management and leadership skills; flexible and adaptable team player; and resourceful in delivering high-quality work.
• Ability to learn and navigate technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), Alteryx and Power BI.
• 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).

Benefits

If you join as a full-time employee, you will get the following benefits:

• Medical and Dental Plans.
• Vision coverage, Disability and Life Insurance.
• 401(k) plans.
• A robust suite of personal well-being benefits to support your mental health.
• Depending on job classification, standard work hours, and years of service.
• Personal Time Off per fiscal year.
• KPMG's culture thrives on collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning.

Training & development

The KPMG internship experience is a terrific way to learn business skills, find a mentor, build your network, and gain real-world (even global) experience before graduation. KPMG offers a consistent national training experience for all interns. You will pair up with a mentor who can inspire and guide your internship and your career. Also, you start growing your professional network by interacting with KPMG senior professionals and employees worldwide.

Career progression

KPMG’s internship program can often lead to a full-time job. Upon completing the internship program, you may have the opportunity to transition into a full-time role, paving the way for long-term career growth within the organization.

Sources

The following sources were used in researching this page:

• kpmguscareers.com/early-career/program/#internship
• youtube.com/@KPMGUSA