VAT Manager

BDO UK; Southampton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking accountancy and business advisory firm that empowers entrepreneurial organizations to thrive. As a VAT Manager or Senior Manager, you'll provide essential VAT advisory and compliance services to a diverse range of corporate clients, including FTSE100 and private equity-backed businesses. In this dynamic role, you'll manage your own client portfolio, collaborate with senior management, and actively seek opportunities to enhance service delivery. With a commitment to personal development and a supportive culture, this is a chance to drive your career forward in an innovative environment that values your contributions.

Qualifications

• Significant understanding of VAT compliance and technical areas.
• Experience managing a large and varied client portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Provide VAT advisory and compliance services for corporate clients.
• Manage a portfolio of existing clients and develop new targets.

Skills

VAT compliance

Microsoft Excel

Client management

Communication with Tax Authorities

Sales of new services

Tools

Accounting software

Compliance software

Job description

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We are also interested in speaking with candidates who may be based in other locations in the South, e.g., Reading, Gatwick, Guildford, Southampton

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 adapts to 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 legislative changes, there are always fresh challenges 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 Indirect Tax business continues to grow rapidly. Indirect taxes generate significant revenues for governments globally and are increasingly scrutinized by tax authorities, media, and the public. For you, this is an opportunity to hone your client service skills with interesting and complex assignments to help clients of all sizes succeed.

The team comprises a mix of 'home-grown' (including partner level) and externally recruited talent. This diversity creates an environment where our team can bring fresh thinking and varied perspectives to every project, enabling us to deliver creative, commercial, and robust solutions for our clients.

We'll help you succeed

Leading organizations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality stems from a thorough understanding of their business, which comes from working closely with clients and building long-lasting relationships.

You'll be someone comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and partners to help businesses succeed. You'll be encouraged to identify and highlight opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to our clients.

We're looking for a VAT Manager or Senior Manager to join the team. This role will provide VAT advisory and compliance services for a wide range of corporate clients, including FTSE100, FTSE250, AIM, private equity-backed, and privately owned businesses. UK VAT experience/knowledge is essential.

The primary responsibility will be managing a portfolio of existing clients and developing new targets to ensure business growth. You will also assist senior staff in client work and in managing the group and, on occasion, the practice.

Key to the role is the ability to proactively manage your workload, communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and partners. You will also need to consider and highlight opportunities to develop new work.

We are looking for someone with:

• Significant understanding of and previous experience with VAT compliance
• A good knowledge of VAT technical areas
• Responsibility for VAT compliance for your own portfolio
• A strong understanding and previous use of Microsoft Excel
• Experience using accounting or compliance software platforms
• The ability to manage a large and varied client portfolio
• The ability to actively seek opportunities to sell new services to existing clients
• Experience dealing directly with Tax Authorities
• Experience dealing with senior management and key stakeholders in clients

You'll be able to be yourself; we'll recognize and value you for who you are and celebrate your contributions. We're committed to agile working and offer flexible options to suit you, your team, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we'll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, with programs, resources, and frameworks supporting your development.

We're in it together

Mutual support and respect are core values at BDO. We pride ourselves on a people-centered culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we'll support you at every stage of your career.

Our agile working framework keeps us connected, enabling teams to share ideas and support each other. We have state-of-the-art collaboration spaces and encourage networking, teamwork, and sharing skills and experiences. With various events and resources, you'll keep learning at BDO.

We're looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses succeed, fueling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, and we continually invest in you. Across the UK, our diverse teams work together to help companies achieve their ambitions.

We have a clear purpose and are confident in our future, adapting and evolving to build on our strengths. We aim to combine global reach, integrity, and expertise, shaping the future with openness and clarity, empowering people to think creatively about improvements.