Corporate Tax Senior Associate / Assistant Manager

The Trust; Northam; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO’s Corporate Tax Senior Associate / Assistant Manager in Northam, Devon, requires strong tax knowledge and leadership to manage client portfolios and drive opportunities across the UK and overseas. You will collaborate with partners and senior managers, guiding delivery and mentoring junior staff.

We value proactive communicators who can balance risk, profitability and client service while developing new business and nurturing long-term relationships within a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• In-depth, up-to-date knowledge of taxation with specialist knowledge.
• Project and staff management experience.
• Ability to manage a substantial client portfolio and actively seek new business.
• Experience dealing with client senior management.
• Degree level education and/or CTA/ACA qualification.
• Demonstrable post-qualification experience.

Responsibilities

• Work pro-actively and manage your own tasks while collaborating with others.
• Communicate regularly with senior managers, directors and BDO's partners.
• Identify opportunities to enhance delivery and additional services to clients.
• Support the Corporate Tax practice for UK and overseas clients.

Skills

Taxation knowledge

Project management

Staff management

Business development

Client relationship management

Senior stakeholder communication

Education

Degree / CTA / ACA

Job description

Corporate Tax Senior Associate / Assistant Manager

Location

• Northam, Devon, GB, EX39 1

Details

• Start Date: 2026-09-03
• End Date: 2026-10-13

Job Description

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 BDO's Corporate Tax practice sits at the heart of our Tax function and plays an important role in the wider business. Our team works collaboratively with others across BDO, offering clients in the UK and overseas expert advice and solutions that help them overcome their challenges. If you’re looking for exposure and the chance to make an impact, you’re looking in the right place. 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. You’ll be someone with:

• 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 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, 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-centered 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, 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 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.