Tax Assurance & Risk Management Senior Manager

BDO UK; Leeds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy and advisory firm in Leeds is seeking a Senior Manager for their Tax Assurance & Risk Management team. The ideal candidate will oversee client portfolios, manage complex tax projects, and contribute to business growth. A degree and relevant tax qualifications, along with client relationship and project management experience, are essential for this dynamic role. This position offers competitive benefits and a supportive environment for career development.

Benefits

Health and wellness programmes

Pension plan with matched contributions

Access to private medical treatment

Income protection plan

Holiday purchasing option

Bike to work scheme

Qualifications

• Experience in tax strategy and risk management.
• Ability to manage client portfolios effectively.
• Strong communication skills for client presentations.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key contact for clients and senior team.
• Lead end-to-end project delivery for tax services.
• Develop tax governance frameworks for clients.

Skills

Client relationship management

Project management

Tax compliance knowledge

Presentation skills

Analytical thinking

Education

Degree level qualification

CTA/ACA qualified or equivalent

Job description

Overview

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions all organisations need to navigate today’s changing world. We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious and entrepreneurially-spirited businesses that fuel the economy – whether privately or publicly owned - 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.

Our Tax Assurance & Risk Management (TA&RM) team is a fast-growing collaborative team of around 15 people nationally led by three dedicated tax partners, who together support a wide variety of private, private equity-backed and listed clients across sectors. Our work has helped many clients meet their legislative tax governance compliance obligations (including in relation to the Senior Accounting Officer and Corporate Criminal Offences regimes, the tax strategy publication requirement and HMRC’s Business Risk Review process) and strategically improve their tax operations and tax control framework, manage tax risk and provide assurance to tax authorities and business stakeholders. Technology is an important part of helping our clients succeed and we encourage innovation at all levels in our team. We are an award-winning specialist tax team.

This is a dynamic client-facing role that requires excellent client relationship, communication and project management skills, and the ability to distil complex concepts into easily understood information suitable for a wide array of stakeholders. Most of your work will be client facing and will require you to actively manage client portfolios, manage project delivery, coordinating junior resource and BDO tax specialists, to deliver exceptional client service. Owning client relationships with the senior team is key, and you’ll be heavily involved in business development and innovation activities to support our business growth.

This role will involve consideration of a range of taxes including corporate, indirect and employment taxes; our work is broader than any one area of tax and at the senior manager level, we require candidates with a depth of tax experience, specifically with TA&RM experience, with good commercial awareness who are eager to learn, adapt and contribute to this area of growth for the business. Importantly, we are looking for natural curiosity about how tax functions and businesses run, from the governance, processes and controls to the people and technology they use and the tax technical issues relevant to them.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key point of contact within the firm for our clients, together with the senior team.
• Demonstrate TA&RM experience (including tax strategy, SAO and CCO compliance, HMRC Business Risk Reviews, developing the tax control framework and tax operating model, advising on tax risk management such as tax risk registers).
• Maintain a strong presentation style and ability to host workshops, training sessions and webinars, often to Board level, with the ability to talk knowledgeably about a range of tax issues.
• Lead end-to-end project delivery, managing complex projects to deliver quality advice.
• Develop and maintain an interest in helping clients enhance tax governance and create bespoke scopes of work to meet client needs.
• Take personal responsibility for decisions and the actions of others.
• Meet educational requirements: degree level and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent, or relevant 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 our clients, the task at hand, our teams, and you.

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 - 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.

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.