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Associate, Ignition - Data & Analytics | Multiple Locations Summer/Fall 2026
KPMG is seeking an Associate to join our Ignition practice. Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.
KPMG is a world-leading professional services firm with a collaborative, future-forward culture. Join a diverse team helping high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. Develop your career through formal training and informal mentoring, supported by our culture and values.
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
- 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
- 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
Additional Information
KPMG offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. KPMG is an equal opportunity employer. KPMG complies with all applicable federal, state and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.
KPMG recruits on a rolling basis. Candidates are considered as they apply, until the opportunity is filled. The position may require travel to reasonably commutable work locations using personal transportation.
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