Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions all  organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious and entrepreneurially-spirited businesses that fuel the economy – whether privately or publicly owned - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Working, achieving, and thriving together, our Tax team move with every challenge. Friendly, driven and diverse, they service our clients across the country and around the world. By providing expertise in many different specialist areas of tax, they collaborate across BDO to deliver wider business solutions. From meeting clients’ evolving business needs to managing changes to legislation, there are always fresh challenges to face in the Tax team. If you’re after a career that will keep you on your toes, we’ll give you the autonomy to drive your career forward.

Our Tax Assurance & Risk Management (‘TA&RM’) team is a fast growing team with three dedicated tax partners and over 20 individuals who together have supported over 300 clients.  Our work has helped clients meet their legislative tax governance compliance obligations and strategically improve their tax performance and provide assurance to tax authorities and business stakeholders. We are an award-winning specialist tax team.

This is first and foremost a dynamic client-facing role that requires excellent communication skills with the ability to distil complex concepts into easily understood information suitable for a wide array of stakeholders (internal and external). Your work will largely be project based, servicing a range of clients and managing junior resource/ resource from other departments to deliver exceptional client service. You will initially be providing support to more senior members of the team, working in many cases directly to the TA&RM partners and directors. However, most of your work will be client facing and will require you to actively manage client portfolios and manage project delivery.

Whilst this role will involve some consideration of corporate taxation, candidates from other areas of taxation are welcome as are those who may have a background in internal audit or similar. Our work is broader than any one particular area of tax and we require candidates with good commercial awareness who are eager to learn, adapt and contribute to this area of growth for the business.  Importantly, we are looking for a natural curiosity about how tax functions and businesses run, from the governance, processes and controls to the people and technology they use and the tax technical issues relevant to them.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice.  That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working pro-actively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

We are looking for someone:

To act as a key point of contact within the firm for the client, together with the Partner. This will involve responding quickly to, as well as anticipating, client requests/needs, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the service provided, and maintaining regular contact with clients.

With experience in end-to-end project delivery

With a strong presentation style, and confidence in hosting workshops, training sessions and webinars, often to Board level.

Broad tax technical background to be able to talk knowledgeably at a good level about all taxes

Educated to degree level, and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent, or relevant experience.

Experience of Tax Assurance & Risk Management work is an advantage (including tax process, strategy, SAO and CCO) – definitely a keen interest in governance and tax performance.

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business.  We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, our clients and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture.  From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another.  At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues - BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences.  With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.