Corporate and M&A Transactions Assistant Manager

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.

BDO’s Corporate Tax practice sits at the heart of our Tax function and plays an important role in the wider business. Our team works collaboratively with others across BDO, offering clients in the UK and overseas expert advice and solutions that help them overcome their challenges. 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.

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.

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:

• An in depth, up to date, knowledge of taxation with specialist knowledge and the ability to deal with complex tax issues.
• Project and staff management experience.
• Ability to manage a substantial client portfolio profitably whilst being able to actively seek opportunities for developing new clients and for selling new services to existing clients.
• Ability to provide Tax compliance and advisory services to a wide range of clients using resource from a shared service team or via technology tools.
• Experience of managing a substantial portfolio of clients including control of client take on and engagement, billings, and identification of opportunities to improve recoveries, together with cash collection.
• Understanding of potential risks to the Firm in relation to the Firm’s quality control procedures and raising to the appropriate person.
• Guide and supervise less experienced colleagues, providing support, training and mentoring where appropriate.
• Experience of leading complex projects.
• Educated to degree level and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent.
• Demonstrable post qualified experience.

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.

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 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 offer a wide range of core and voluntary benefits, with a few examples below:

• Health and Wellness Programmes
• 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.