VAT Senior Manager / Associate Director

BDO UK; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy and business advisory firm in Manchester is seeking an experienced VAT Advisor to provide compliance services to various corporate clients. The role requires strong UK VAT knowledge and the ability to manage a diverse client portfolio. Suitable candidates should possess a degree and ideally be CTA or ACA qualified. The firm promotes an inclusive culture and offers opportunities for career development and well-being programs.

Benefits

Health and Wellness Programmes

Pension Plan

Private Medical

Income Protection Plan

Holidays

Bike to work scheme

Qualifications

• Significant understanding and experience of UK VAT.
• Ability to manage a large and varied client portfolio.
• Experience dealing with senior management and key stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide VAT advisory and compliance services for corporate clients.
• Manage a portfolio of existing clients.
• Proactively seek opportunities for new services.

Skills

Understanding of UK VAT

Client relationship management

Business development

Experience with HMRC

Education

Degree level education

CTA or ACA qualified or equivalent

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.

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 a variety of 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.

We’ll help you succeed

This role will provide VAT advisory and compliance services for a wide range of corporate clients in the FTSE100, FTSE250, AIM and private‑equity‑backed and privately owned businesses. UK VAT experience/knowledge across a variety of sectors is essential.

The primary responsibility will be to deal with all matters relating to the management of a portfolio of existing clients and the development of targets in order to ensure the continued growth of the business. You will also provide assistance to more senior members of staff in both client work and in the management of the group and on occasions the practice.

Key to the role is for the individual to be able to pro‑actively manage their own workload, communicating with directors/partners on a regular basis. This is essential due to the size and nature of the team. Furthermore, the individual will be expected to be able to consider and highlight further opportunities to develop new work.

We’re looking for someone with:

• Significant understanding and previous experience of UK VAT with in‑depth knowledge of recent key updates and areas of focus.
• Responsibility for providing VAT advice to clients with a small amount of time spent on reviewing UK VAT compliance (you will take advantage of business development opportunities and will be fully supported in this).
• Ability to manage a large and varied client portfolio.
• Ability to actively seek opportunities for selling new services to existing clients.
• Experience of dealing directly with HMRC.
• Experience of dealing with client senior management and key stakeholders.
• Educated to degree level, and ideally CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent.

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 know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, 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.