Employment Tax Assistant Manager

Ideas People Trust

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

We work with the companies that are Britain's economic engine - ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high-growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We'll broaden your horizons

The Employment Tax team at BDO is one of the largest and most diverse in professional services. With a strong focus on quality, the team provides advice to an exciting variety of clients - from FTSE 100 companies to entrepreneurs - on topics including pay and benefits, employment status, and other tax issues.

The team is made up of strong players who harness market-leading software to help our clients succeed. We're growing, which means you will too - with plenty of opportunities to enhance your skills, build client relationships and develop your career.

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.

Responsibilities

• Provide Tax compliance and advisory services to a wide range of clients using resource from a shared service team or via technology tools.

• Manage a substantial portfolio of clients including control of client take on and engagement, billings, and identification of opportunities to improve recoveries, together with cash collection.

• Self-development and continuing professional education with a view to progressing within practice.

• Develops professional relationships with clients and within the Firm and adapts the approach for the relevant audience.

• Understands potential risks to the Firm in relation to the Firm's quality control procedures and raising to the appropriate person.

• Gets involved in special assignments on an ad hoc basis.

• Guides and supervises less experienced colleagues.

• Supports, trains, mentors and advises others in own area.

• Challenge current practice - driving improvements and championing change.

• Take personal responsibility for own decisions and actions and those of others.

• Lead complex projects

Requirements

• An in depth, up to date, knowledge of taxation with specialist knowledge and the ability to deal with complex tax issues

• Project and staff management experience

• Ability to manage a substantial client portfolio profitably whilst being able to actively seek opportunities for developing new clients and for selling new services to existing clients

• Experience of dealing with client senior management

• Educated to degree level and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent

• Demonstrable post qualified experience

You'll also 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 everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task in 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.