Tax Intern

Job Description

Tax Intern | Boston Summer 2027 | KPMG Financial Reporting View (FRV)

The Tone:
This is an internship opportunity at KPMG, located in Boston, MA. KPMG is recognized as a top tax firm globally, fostering a collaborative and future-forward culture. The firm empowers success by connecting specialists and leveraging Ignition Centers to merge deep industry knowledge with cutting-edge technologies, creating innovative tax solutions. This role is crucial for helping high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges while developing your career through multifaceted engagements and mentorship.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship
• Type: Seasonal, Temporary
• Location: In-person Boston, MA
• Team: Part of a multi-disciplinary team within the KPMG Tax practice
• Mission: To perform tax-related tasks, including compliance, advising, and planning, and to help high-profile clients understand and respond to complex business challenges.
• Tech Stack: Artificial intelligence (AI), Alteryx, Power BI, MS Office Applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Tax Services: Perform tax-related tasks, including compliance, advising, and planning for a variety of clients across different industries, multistate, and multinational enterprises.
• Data and Analytics: Participate in data analytics assignments using KPMG technology, create tax return work papers and tax returns for clients, and coordinate offshore resources.
• Strategic Advisory: Perform tax due diligence to identify tax exposures and opportunities, and assist multi-state companies with state and local tax issues including compliance, advising, planning, and controversies.
• Global Planning: Help advise multinational enterprises on business decisions such as location and operation, choice of entity, supply chain optimization, capital access, and tax planning decisions.
• Technology Enablement: Build capabilities in key technologies that enable tax professionals for client service delivery, including artificial intelligence (AI), Alteryx, and Power BI.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Must be enrolled in an accredited college or university pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, accounting, finance, taxation, mathematics, economics, information technology, data and analytics, engineering, or an equivalent program. Completion of at least one college-level accounting course is required at the time of application.
• Experience: Must have additional academic credits to complete before obtaining their degree and/or CPA eligibility requirements upon completion of this internship, and be pursuing educational requirements for CPA licensure in the principal place of business. Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.
• Skills: Possesses strong technical, business acumen, critical thinking, and agility skills, with a demonstrated ability to excel and drive strategic outcomes. Exhibits a quality service mindset, strong technical aptitude, ability to learn and navigate technologies like AI, Alteryx, Power BI, and MS Office Applications, and apply emerging technologies. Excellent communication, time management, and leadership skills are essential, along with being feedback-oriented and resourceful.
• Bonus: Preferred degrees or areas of study include Accounting and Taxation, with a preferred GPA of 3.0 or above. Coursework or a minor in information systems, software engineering, computer science, or data and analytics is also preferred.