R&D 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

Working hard and working together, our Tax team thrives on keeping busy. 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. 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.

We’ll help you succeed

Our Corporate Tax team covers a wide spectrum of tax advisory matters including core compliance, transaction-focused advisory, tax risk, innovation, and technology solutions. Our people have flexibility in the areas and sectors they cover and are able to support the teams’ growth through their contribution.

Within this role, you will provide tax compliance, advisory, and accounting services to a range of clients from small start-ups to major multinationals across all lines of the sector. You will regularly engage with stakeholders at all levels, so it is important that you are able to clearly articulate complex tax issues and develop effective solutions and relationships with clients. You will also:

1. Provide Tax compliance and advisory services to a wide range of clients using resources from a shared service team or via technology tools.
2. 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.
3. Pays attention to self-development and continuing professional education with a view to progressing within practice.
4. Develop professional relationships with clients and within the Firm and adapt the approach for the relevant audience.
5. Understand potential risks to the Firm in relation to the Firm’s quality control procedures and raise to the appropriate person.
6. Get involved in special assignments on an ad hoc basis.
7. Guide and supervise less experienced colleagues.
8. Support, train, mentor, and advise others in own area.
9. Challenge current practice – driving improvements and championing change.
10. Take personal responsibility for own decisions and actions and those of others.
11. Lead projects of limited scale or complexity.

When you join us, we’ll make your growth our priority. If you can demonstrate the following skills, we can help you go far. We’re looking for someone with:

1. An in-depth, up-to-date knowledge of taxation with specialist knowledge and the ability to deal with complex tax issues.
2. 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.
3. Experience of dealing with client senior management.
4. Educated to degree level and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent.
5. 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-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’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.

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.