Tax / Early Career / Early Career
Associate, Economic Valuation Services - Valuation | Multiple Locations Summer/Fall 2026
Los Angeles, CA
126511
Early Career
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Start Season & Year: Summer/Fall 2026
Earliest Graduation Date: Jun 2025
Latest Graduation Date: Sep 2026
In this ever-changing market environment, our professionals must be adaptable and thrive in a collaborative, team-driven culture. At KPMG, our people are our number one priority. With a wealth of learning and career development opportunities, a world-class training facility and leading market tools, we make sure our people continue to grow both professionally and personally. If you are looking for a firm with a strong team connection where you can be your whole self, have an impact, advance your skills, deepen your experiences, and have the flexibility and access to constantly find new areas of inspiration and expand your capabilities, then consider a career in Valuation.
KPMGs valuation professionals provide clients robust and informed guidance on valuation matters across multiple sectors, deal stages and business needs. We determine fair (market) value of equity shares, assets or complex financial instruments for mergers and acquisitions, financial reporting, tax and other regulatory standards. Our engagements include providing pre and post deal Purchase Price Allocations (PPA), Impairment Testing, employee or management incentive scheme valuations and recurring fund valuations. As a member of our diverse team, you will help high-profile clients understand, analyze, and respond to complex business opportunities and challenges. You have the opportunity to develop your career through a range of multifaceted engagements, formal training, as well as informal mentoring. At KPMG, we put our culture and values front and center. There is nothing more important than investing in our culture because It has an investment in our people, our future, in who we are, and what we stand for.
KPMG is currently seeking an Associate to join our Economic and Valuation Services practice.
Responsibilities:
- Analyze competitive industry dynamics and financial condition of peer companies, evaluate business plans, adjust financial statements and build financial models including discounted cash flow analyses, capital asset pricing model, market multiples methods and replacement cost valuation approaches
- Participate in due diligence activities on pending mergers and acquisitions transactions, public-company purchase price allocations, goodwill impairment measurement, international restructurings and private-company fairness opinions
- Research, analyze and communicate the key qualitative factors and quantitative drivers of companies and industries
- Analyze data and prepare documentation of analyses for financial reporting, tax and other business purposes using various data analysis and visualization tools, including Microsoft Excel, Access, Power BI, Alteryx and similar tools
- Interview senior client management, identify and evaluate critical valuation related inputs from large quantity of diverse information and concisely document findings
- Prepare proposals, executive presentations, memos and/or narrative valuation reports detailing our methodologies, inputs and assumptions; prepare valuation transfer pricing reports for closely held or publicly traded companies
- Build capabilities in key technologies that enable tax professionals for client service delivery such as artificial intelligence (AI), Alteryx, Power BI, and more
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 in Accounting, Economics, Business, Finance, Mathematics, or equivalent program from an accredited college or university
- Preferred GPA of 3.0 or above
- Coursework or minor in Information Systems, Software Engineering, Computer Science or Data and Analytics is preferred
- Knowledge of finance, financial statement analysis, quantitative and competitive analysis; building complex financial models and efficient manipulation of cumbersome data
- Demonstrated quality service mindset; strong technical aptitude, critical thinking skills and ability to navigate Microsoft Office applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Access, Power BI), Alteryx, Tableau, artificial intelligence (AI) and similar data analysis and visualization tools
- Excellent communication, time management 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, such as a personal vehicle or public 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 (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa)
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California Salary Range: $79000 - $115000
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