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KPMG

About the Company:

KPMG LLP is the audit, tax and advisory firm that has maintained a continuous commitment throughout its history to providing leadership, integrity, and quality to the capital markets. The Big Four firm with the strongest growth record over the past decade, KPMG offers clients industry insights and a multidisciplinary range of services. We seek Associates, Senior Associates, Managers, Senior Managers, and Directors to join our Northeast offices in the practice areas described below.

Job Titles and Descriptions:

AUDIT
KPMG’s Audit practice uses a methodology that transforms the audit process from a traditional compliance-driven function to a risk-based approach by creating a framework for auditors to assess how a client's business risks affect financial statements. This approach offers a more comprehensive view of how a client's unique risk environment affects its financial reporting.

ADVISORY SERVICES
Advisory Services professionals strive to help clients improve business performance, comply with regulatory requirements and achieve sustainable value over time. Our approach incorporates the balancing of risk and control considerations with the more traditional performance and cost factors. Advisory professionals are also able to help provide clients with relevant industry and functional skills where they need them most.

CFO ADVISORY SERVICES
CFO Advisory Services professionals are “trusted advisers” for the CFO and other financial executives. With a focus on financial analysis, operations, controls and performance, our professionals bring leading practices and recommendations to clients to help streamline and create more efficient processes with the finance function.

FINANCIAL RISK MANAGEMENT
KPMG’s Financial Risk Management (FRM) Services professionals help management and boards of directors to identify, measure, and monitor financial and business risks, the relationships between risks and returns, and the control environment over the management and reporting of these risks. In the very complex world of financial instruments, FRM professionals have assisted in valuation approaches; stress testing, model development and risk rating, and measurement approaches to help management leverage the leading practices in risk identification and measurement.

FINANCIAL SERVICES REGULATORY RISK MANAGEMENT
KPMG’s Regulatory Risk Management professionals help banks, securities firms, asset managers, investment advisers, and insurance companies as they work to enhance their regulatory risk management efforts. We assist in creating a culture of compliance within their organizations, improving internal approaches to meeting regulatory obligations, and implementing programs and services that can be effective and efficient over the longer term. We work with our clients to help maintain a safe and sound business environment, leverage regulations to their benefit, build integrated compliance programs, manage growth while mitigating risks, and build flexibility into their systems and programs to deal with the inevitable shifts in business and regulations.

ACTUARIAL
KPMG’s Actuarial Services professionals offer business plans to clients in the rapidly changing insurance and reinsurance industries. We also bring insight and quantitative analytic skills to non-insurance clients including healthcare companies, government agencies, self-insurers, and others. We assist clients in understanding and addressing challenges caused by competition, technology, mergers and acquisitions, globalization, increased regulatory scrutiny, and the ongoing struggle to provide greater value to stakeholders.

INTERNAL AUDIT REGULATORY AND COMPLIANCE
Internal Audit Regulatory and Compliance (IARC) Service professionals help organizations enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of critical in-house governance, internal audit and regulatory compliance functions. The IARC professionals, focused on regulatory and compliance, help clients proactively comply with regulatory requirements as well as effectively secure and monitor systems and data to help improve the compliance functions. We help mitigate regulatory and compliance risks that could lead to losses from non-compliance, litigation, or regulatory sanctions and fines.

INFORMATION RISK MANAGEMENT
Information Risk Management (IRM) Services professionals assess, design, and combine leading information management and operational processes, approaches, technologies, and controls to help enable sustained business value and risk management in support of the business. Information Technology (IT) organizations and their leaders often need a business focus that helps enable them to better organize and prioritize their IT investments based on factors including business value created, return on investments, and management of risk.

OPERATIONAL RISK MANAGEMENT
Operational Risk Management (ORM) Services professionals assist our clients as they work to improve business performance and manage risk. ORM focuses on physical operations such as manufacturing, distribution, logistics, procurement, sourcing, and inventory management. Our team of professionals performs reviews of operations, identifying and assessing opportunities for improvement in process, organization, technology risks and control.

CORE KPMG FORENSICSM AND OTHER SPECIALTIES
KPMG ForensicSM professionals assist organizations in their efforts to achieve the highest level of business integrity through the detection, prevention and investigation of fraud and misconduct. Our Forensic professionals strive to not only help our clients discover the facts underlying concerns about fraud and misconduct, but also assist clients in assessing their vulnerabilities to such activities, and in developing controls and programs to address these risks.

FORENSIC TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
KPMG ForensicSM uses computer forensic and data analysis techniques to help our clients detect fraudulent activity and other forms of misconduct. In addition, KPMG LLP, the U.S. member firm, operates the Cypress Technology Center (CTEC), which offers sophisticated technology tools and skilled professionals to help clients reduce litigation costs and risks in the areas of evidence and discovery management and the acquisition, management, and analysis of large data sets.

TRANSACTION SERVICES
KPMG’s Transaction Services professionals offer merger, acquisition and divestiture support to strategic and financial buyers. Our professionals help guide clients from early deal planning through the entire deal process to help meet deal objectives and achieve the client’s desired results. And our professionals have across-the-board experience to help address specific business aspects and operating risks that are unique to each industry. This approach, in addition to our in-depth understanding of key client issues, allows us to assemble highly qualified teams that help clients reduce risk and increase the value of their business deals.

FINANCIAL DUE DILIGENCE
Financial Due Diligence (FDD) services provide support throughout the transaction life cycle on both the "buy side" and "sell side," to both strategic and financial buyers. This support includes pre-bid assessments, financial, tax, commercial, and information systems due diligence, integration risk assessments, and accounting and tax transaction advisory services.

BUSINESS DUE DILIGENCE
Business Due Diligence (BDD) services provide strategic advisory services to clients on matters throughout the Mergers and Acquisitions (M and A) deal life cycle. The BDD team helps clients evaluate acquisition candidates based on the achievability of managements’ future business forecasts and creates value from M and A transactions. The team helps clients make informed decisions on whether to proceed with the deal, how to value it, and how to develop thorough execution plans to maximize value. Clients are primarily private equity houses and strategic buyers.

GLOBAL CONVERSION SERVICES
Transaction Services provides Global Conversion Services (GCS) to multinational corporations and financial institutions, supporting their initial conversion to U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) or International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Conversion services are typically provided in support of an IPO, cross-border acquisition or regulatory mandate. The GCS team provides project management and advisory assistance to clients on the development of financial reporting processes and controls to support their GAAP or IFRS accounting and disclosure requirements. In addition, the GCS team provides the necessary training in financial management to help enable the proper execution of GAAP or IFRS accounting policies and procedures.

ACCOUNTING ADVISORY GROUP
The Accounting Advisory Group (AAG) comprised of individuals focusing on technical accounting and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting matters in a transaction oriented environment. The group focuses on providing project-specific technical advisory services for our clients. The team supports the development of white papers and surveys, performs presentations at conferences, and serves as media contact to promote firm positioning.

FEDERAL TAX
KPMG's Federal Tax Services Practice is a resource for clients that need help complying with the latest IRS rules and regulations. Our tax professionals who handle federal tax issues bring the experience and commitment necessary to deliver tax compliance and advisory services to help meet our clients' specific needs.

KPMG’s Federal Tax Services Practice offers a broad range of capabilities in the following areas:
• Compliance and Advisory Services: comprehensive day-to-day tax advisory services, tax compliance services, regulatory representation, and tax provision preparation and review
• Accounting Methods and Credit Services: tax accounting services, research and experimentation tax credit review, and fixed asset review
• Mergers and Acquisitions: due diligence, acquisition and disposition tax planning, and services related to troubled companies
• Tax Controversy Services: tax court services and alternative dispute resolution services
• Tax Management Services: tax operational analysis, tax outsourcing, and tax technology
• Tax Planning for Tax-Exempt Organizations: tax management, transactions and reorganizations, advocacy, and compliance

INTERNATIONAL CORPORATE SERVICES
KPMG’s International Corporate Services (ICS) practice strives to help companies as they work to achieve tax efficiency in their international operations. From major multinationals already operating in several countries to small businesses planning their first foray abroad, companies face a daunting array of regulations and tax concerns that impact – and inform – their global business decisions. With international perspective and local experience, our ICS professionals provide practical advice on establishing new ventures and contracts, structuring overseas transactions in a tax-efficient manner, managing their effective tax rates, and maintaining compliance with tax and trade regulations.

INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE SERVICES
KPMG's International Executive Services (IES) practice strives to help companies as they work to manage their international assignment programs. When our clients send their employees on international assignment, KPMG professionals provide proactive planning ideas and advise clients on international human resources and tax best practices. IES provides compliance, advisory, and administration services to help support our clients' businesses and assignees.

STATE AND LOCAL TAX
KPMG’s State and Local Tax (SALT) practice needs more members for their Income Franchise team. KPMG's SALT practice assists clients as they work to reduce their tax liabilities and enhance the bottom line. As a national practice, SALT is committed to bringing some of the best professionals to each engagement and providing dynamic tax services to clients.

TRADE AND CUSTOMS TAX
KPMG’s Trade and Customs group is a national tax practice that develops and helps implement customs and international trade services for clients in a variety of industries, including the pharmaceutical, textile, automotive, electronics, food/retail distribution and global manufacturing industries. In delivering these trade and customs services, KPMG’s professionals endeavor to add value to clients’ businesses by focusing on global duty savings and customs compliance initiatives to facilitate bottom-line cash savings, reduce potential exposure from global customs compliance violations, and improve operational efficiencies.

Our Trade and Customs Practice is a multidisciplinary team whose members consist of accountants, attorneys, customs brokers, customs auditors and other tax professionals. Together, the individuals in our group focus on developing comprehensive services that can exceed our clients’ expectations.
KPMG offers and supports flexible work arrangements as well as part-time schedules. We also offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package.
Interested? Please visit KPMG’s career website to apply online at www.kpmgcareers.com .

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