Tax Corporate and M&A Senior Manager

BDO UK; City Of London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent accountancy and advisory firm in the UK seeks a Tax Advisory professional to manage transactional tax operations. You will lead tax due diligence and structuring assignments while actively collaborating with clients and senior team members. The ideal candidate has a strong background in transaction tax and is CTA or ACA qualified. This role offers significant opportunities for professional development in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Health and Wellness Programmes

Pension Plan

Private Medical

Income Protection Plan

Holidays

Bike to work scheme

Qualifications

• Proven track record in transaction tax operations.
• Strong technical excellence and commercial thinking.
• Experience in leading tax due diligence projects.
• Ability to develop key transaction relationships.
• In-depth knowledge of complex tax issues.

Responsibilities

• Manage tax due diligence and structuring assignments.
• Collaborate with seniors and partners for effective delivery.
• Identify opportunities to enhance service delivery.

Skills

Transaction tax operations

Tax technical communication

Project management

Tax due diligence

Complex tax issue resolution

Education

CTA and/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

Our Corporate Mergers & Acquisitions Tax team works with a range of clients, from entrepreneurial start-ups to recognised high street names and global corporations. We offer services including tax strategy and governance, tax technology, banking and insurance, diligence, tax structuring and more. So, there’s plenty of variety from one day to the next. Whether building great relationships with clients or colleagues, you’ll be supported by a team that brings out the best in you.

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

We’ll help you succeed

Our clients 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 clients and building long-lasting relationships.

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.

We are looking for someone with:

• A proven track record of transaction tax operations and who is comfortable leading a range of tax due diligence, both buy side and sell side, and tax structuring assignments.
• Strong technical excellence as well as the ability to think commercially and to communicate tax technical issues to various stakeholders.
• Ability to lead a variety of tax due diligence and tax structuring projects, working closely with other specialists within the firm and the transaction support team.
• Ability to contribute to the development of certain key transaction relationships, e.g. key private equity accounts.
• An in depth, up to date, knowledge of taxation with specialist knowledge and the ability to deal with complex tax issues arising on transactions
• Demonstrable relevant transactions experience
• Project and staff management experience
• CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent

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.

Career Development

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 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.