Reward and Share Schemes Director / Associate Director

BDO; Bristol; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking accountancy firm that empowers you to thrive in your career. As part of a dynamic Tax team, you will engage with ambitious businesses, providing essential tax advice and solutions. This role emphasizes relationship-building and proactive management of client portfolios, offering you the autonomy to drive your career forward. With a commitment to personal and professional development, you will have access to resources that help you succeed. Experience a supportive culture that values collaboration and innovation, where your contributions are recognized and celebrated. Embrace the opportunity to make a significant impact in the world of entrepreneurial business.

Benefits

Agile working framework

Career development programs

State-of-the-art collaboration spaces

Mentoring and coaching support

Qualifications

• Strong people skills to build trust-based relationships.
• Ability to manage a client portfolio and develop new clients.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of existing clients and develop targets.
• Collaborate with senior managers and partners for effective service delivery.

Skills

Tax treatment of share options

Knowledge of EMI and ESS

Experience in share valuations

Client portfolio management

Staff management and mentoring

Sales and client development

Understanding of employment law

Interest in HR and human capital

Education

Degree level education

CTA/ATT/ACA qualified or equivalent

Job description

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

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.

Global Employer Services help companies and individuals moving countries and assist with any tax implications that occur in the move. Working with a broad client base, from start-ups to multinationals who are often moving abroad for the first time, the team work with companies as a whole and with individual employees to help them with some of the biggest decisions of their lives.

That means you’ll need strong people skills so you can build relationships defined by trust. You’ll be part of a growing tight-knit team with an emphasis on assigning work that broadens your capabilities. Combined with the direct access you’ll have to partners on a day-to-day basis, this is your chance to become an expert and build a career based on what you’re good at and what you find interesting.

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.

The primary responsibility will be to deal with all matters relating to the management of a portfolio of existing clients and assist with the development of targets in order to ensure the continued growth of the business. You will also provide assistance to senior members of staff in both client work and in the management of the group, as appropriate.

Key to the role is for the individual to be able to pro-actively manage their own workload, communicating with directors/partners on a regular basis. This is essential due to the size and nature of the team. Furthermore, the individual will be expected to be able to consider and highlight further opportunities to develop new work.

We’re looking for someone with:

1. Ability to advise on the tax treatment of share options and other forms of employee share ownership
2. An in-depth knowledge of EMI, ESS and knowledge of reward tax and related areas such as employment, NIC and capital gains tax etc
3. Expertise on split interest, freezer and nil paid arrangements
4. Experience in the preparation of share valuations and liaison with HMRC
5. Staff management and mentoring experience
6. Ability to profitably manage a client portfolio
7. Demonstrable development of new clients and successful selling of new services to existing clients
8. Awareness of accounting, employment law and company law implications of share incentives
9. Experience of dealing direct with clients including agreement of fees
10. Interest in the wider HR and human capital drivers and implications of reward
11. Educated to degree level, and/or CTA and/or ATT/ACA qualified or equivalent

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-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, 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.