Director - GST Advisory

KPMG’s Indirect Tax team is a market leading, dynamic, and highly skilled practice, partnering with some of Australia’s most significant organisations and advising on complex, high value transactions. We support clients in managing indirect tax obligations, optimising cash flow, reducing risk, improving governance sophistication, and strengthening their business operations overall. 

Due to continued national growth, we are seeking a Director to join our Indirect Tax team. While ideally based in Sydney or Melbourne, we welcome exceptional candidates across Australia. 

 

Your Opportunity 

As a Director within the Indirect Tax practice of our Tax & Legal division, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our national strategy, leading major client engagements, and driving the continued evolution of our indirect tax offering. 

In this senior leadership role, you will: 

• Lead complex GST advisory and transaction engagements, acting as the senior technical expert and ensuring high‑quality outcomes. 
• Communicate complex GST concepts clearly to stakeholders, including those without a tax background. 
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior executives, while driving market growth through developing client relationships and identifying new business opportunities. 
• Mentor and develop a high‑performing team, fostering capability growth, inclusion, and a strong team culture. 
• Contribute to national thought leadership and represent the practice through industry insights, publications, and events. 
• Champion practice innovation by advancing tax technology, data analytics, and automation to enhance client solutions. 

 

How Are You Extraordinary? 

You thrive in a leadership role where you combine deep technical expertise with commercial acumen and people leadership. You are: 

• A strategic thinker with exceptional project leadership skills, able to manage multiple large-scale engagements from planning through to execution. 
• A natural relationship builder who brings presence, influence, and confidence to internal and external engagements. 
• Curious and innovative, with a passion for developing new solutions that create value, improve processes, and anticipate the changing needs of clients and the market. 
• You are tuned in to business development opportunities, with confidence creating effective sales material including proposals, case studies, and other sector-specific material. 

 

Your Experience 

To be considered for this Director opportunity, you will ideally bring: 

• Appropriate experience advising on Australian GST. 
• Demonstrated success leading large and complex engagements, transactions / deals experience is ideal but not essential. 
• Strong communication skills, able to tailor communication style to different audiences, explain complex concepts, oversee the production of quality written advice. 
• Proven people leadership experience, with the ability to mentor and develop high performing teams. 
• Strong commercial and strategic capabilities, including business development, client account leadership. 
• A track record of leading GST engagements in areas such as advisory, governance or technology enabled solutions, ATO reviews, audits or disputes within a professional services firm or in-house environment. 
• Good understanding of indirect tax market trends, regulatory developments, and the evolving role of tax technology and analytics. 

 

KPMG is a professional services firm with global outreach and deep sector experience. We work with clients across an array of industries to solve complex challenges, steer change and enable growth. 

Our people are what make KPMG the thriving workplace that it is and what sets us apart is that we know great minds think differently. Collaborate with a team of passionate, highly skilled professionals who’ve got your back. You’ll build relationships with unique and diverse colleagues who will provide you with the support you need to be your best and produce meaningful and impactful work in an inclusive, equitable culture.

At KPMG, you’ll take control over how you work. We’re embracing a new way of working in many ways, from offering flexible hours and locations to generous paid parental leave and career breaks. Our people enjoy a variety of exciting perks, including retail discounts, health and wellbeing initiatives, learning and growth opportunities, salary packaging options and more.

Diverse candidates have diverse needs. During your recruitment journey, information will be provided about adjustment requests. If you require additional support before submitting your application, please contact the Talent Attraction Support Team.

At KPMG every career is different, and we look forward to seeing how you grow with us.

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