Corporate Tax Director (North West Tax)

BDO UK; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy and business advisory firm in Greater Manchester is seeking a Tax Advisory professional to deliver expert advice to clients ranging from start-ups to multinationals. You will manage your tasks, collaborate with senior management, and be involved in complex tax planning. The role offers opportunities for personal and career development within a supportive environment. Comprehensive benefits, including health and wellness programmes, are provided.

Benefits

Health and Wellness Programmes

Pension Plan

Private Medical

Income Protection Plan

Holidays

Bike to work scheme

Qualifications

• Demonstrable post-qualified experience in tax advisory.
• Experience leading large scale or complex projects.
• Ability to prepare proposals for new work.

Responsibilities

• Manage own tasks and execute project deliverables.
• Collaborate with senior managers and partners effectively.

Skills

Tax strategic framework

Tax planning

Client advisory

People management

Education

Degree level education or equivalent

CTA or ACA qualified

Job description

Overview

Ideas | People | Trust

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

Our clients are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and 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.

Tax is a dynamic, ever-changing industry. As our clients’ needs and the regulatory environment evolve, you’ll encounter new problems to solve and new opportunities for growth. Whether it’s advising clients on high-profile specialisms like Corporation Tax or leading the implementation of intelligent technology solutions, you’ll enjoy variety as well as stretch in your role.

BDO supports all kinds of different businesses in different sectors across the UK and around the world. You’ll be providing Tax Advisory services to start-ups and scale-ups, to private businesses and FTSE listed multinationals. Each of our clients has different needs and in applying your expertise in different contexts, you’ll develop your skills and gain valuable experience that will serve you throughout your career.

Responsibilities

You’ll be someone who can work pro-actively, managing your own tasks, but you’ll also be confident collaborating with others, communicating regularly with senior managers, Directors, and BDO’s Partners to enable us to serve our clients effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to our clients.

Qualifications

• A degree level education and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent with demonstrable post qualified experience.
• An interest and experience of delivering the Tax strategic framework with regular involvement with tax planning and complex tax issues.
• Ability to manage the successful delivery of commercially viable and technically excellent advice to a variety of clients involving tax due diligence, structuring, international and other advisory work and including liaising with specialists in other tax teams and overseas BDO offices to manage their input
• Ability to prepare proposals for new work, including researching target client companies and on technical issues to identify new solutions
• Experience of people management.
• Experience of leading large scale or complex projects within own area of expertise.

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.

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.

We can provide the best support for our clients and people when we’re working side by side. 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 our clients and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. 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 them. Across 17 UK locations, we are 6,500 unique minds coming together to help our clients reach 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.

Rewards & Benefits

We offer a wide range of core and voluntary benefits, with a few examples below.

Health and Wellness Programmes

We promote a positive working environment where our people can thrive.

Pension Plan

A Group Personal Pension Plan, with matched employer contributions.

Private Medical

Access to private medical treatment for you and your family.

Income Protection Plan

Provides a proportion of your basic salary if you suffer a loss of earnings because of illness or injury.

Holidays

Our holiday benefit enables you to purchase up to 10 days of additional leave.

Bike to work scheme

A convenient, environmentally friendly and tax-effective way to acquire a bike for travelling to and from work.