Manager and Associate Director - Tax & Legal Technology

About the role

KPMG is strengthening its Tax & Legal practice across the CASA cluster (Central Asia, Caucasus, Arabic States, South Asia) with a dedicated Tax Technology capability built around the Digital Gateway (DG) platform. It is hiring two senior professionals, one in the GCC hub (e.g. Qatar) and one in the CCA hub (e.g. Kazakhstan), to lead the go-to-market strategy for technology-enabled tax services. This is a client-facing leadership role: you will own execution of the DG go-to-market plan in your market, secure partner sponsorship, govern the local tax-technology service portfolio and advise clients on Tax & Legal Technology and AI, including Large Language Models.

Key responsibilities

• Own and execute the local DG go-to-market strategy, aligned to cluster adoption and revenue targets.
• Build and oversee a pipeline of opportunities where DG is embedded in bids and proposals, driving cross-sell into advisory.
• Approve the local catalogue of tax services and advisory offerings supported by or delivered through DG.
• Advise priority clients and internal teams on Tax & Legal Technology and AI/LLM applications, and help shape technology-based solutions for core tax and legal work.
• Oversee client onboarding and solution translation with regional and EMA implementation teams.
• Sponsor awareness and training so partners and staff understand how DG supports client delivery.
• Govern the use of risk-approved DG methodologies, templates and guidance, and review and approve client success stories.
• Line-manage the technology team and sustain collaboration with the EMA Hub and peer KPMG firms.
• Source, pitch and deliver tax transformation opportunities: identify and qualify opportunities, lead technology-enabled proposals and client demonstrations, and oversee end-to-end delivery of won mandates so they grow into annuity relationships.

Required profile

• Degree in law, tax, business law, economics, informatics, computer science or a related field; an LL.M. or comparable tax qualification is an advantage.
• Substantial experience (typically 10+ years) in tax or tax technology, with a track record of client-facing go-to-market or practice leadership and of winning compliance and transformation mandates.
• Strong understanding of tax compliance (corporate income tax and VAT/GST) and tax process transformation.
• Proven ability to secure senior stakeholder sponsorship and to govern a service portfolio.
• Fluent business English; willingness to work in a regional role and collaborate across CASA countries.

Required skills

• Practical understanding of AI, Large Language Models and prompting applied to tax and legal work.
• Commercial and go-to-market acumen, portfolio and delivery governance, executive stakeholder influence, team leadership and coaching.
• Desirable: experience with the KPMG Digital Gateway platform or a comparable tax-technology platform, existing client networks in the GCC and/or CCA markets, and experience leading cross-border or multi-country tax engagements.