VAT Manager

BDO UK LLP; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO UK LLP is seeking a VAT advisory professional based in the Manchester area to deliver VAT services across a broad client base. You will manage client portfolios, support bid opportunities, and work with the UK and international VAT network to address evolving tax issues.

The role emphasizes end-to-end project delivery, adherence to budgets, and robust quality control. The successful candidate will have strong people skills and be comfortable collaborating with senior managers and partners.

Qualifications

• Experience of providing VAT services to a wide range of clients including household names, global multinationals and fast paced privately owned businesses.
• UK VAT experience/knowledge is essential.
• Experience managing a portfolio of clients and developing targets to ensure growth, including control of billings and cash collection.
• End-to-end project delivery experience, ensuring assignments are completed on time and within budgets.
• Understanding of quality control procedures and risk management.
• People management experience.
• Ability to participate in new bids / proposals.
• Significant understanding of and previous experience within UK VAT.
• In-depth knowledge of recent key updates and areas of focus in VAT.

Skills

VAT knowledge

Portfolio management

People management

Bid proposals

Quality control

Risk management

Project delivery

Billing & cash collection

Job description

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

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.

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.

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;

• Experience of providing VAT services to a wide range of clients including household names, global multinationals and fast paced privately owned businesses.

• UK VAT experience/knowledge is essential - however, a significant amount of work will involve working with the BDO International network to advise clients on global VAT issues.

• Experience of dealing with all matters relating to the management of a portfolio of clients and the development of targets in order to ensure continued growth of the business, including control of billings and cash collection within the firms criteria

• Experience of end to end project delivery, ensuring assignments are completed on time and within agreed budgets.

• An understanding of quality control procedures and risk management.

• People Management experience.

• Ability to participate in new bids / proposals.

• Significant understanding of and previous experience within UK VAT.

• In-depth knowledge of recent key updates and areas of focus in the area of VAT

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.

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 them. Across 17 UK locations, we are 6,500 unique minds coming together to help our clients reach 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.