Expatriate Tax 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.

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.

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.

Role and team: Working smartly and working together, our Tax team thrives on a collaborative and innovative approach to our work, whilst ensuring a personal touch is at the heart of our service. The Expatriate tax team is part of our Global Employer Services offering, which also includes Employment Tax, Share Plans and Incentives and Strategic Reward Advisory. Friendly, driven and diverse, we service our corporate clients with internationally mobile employees (and international remote workers) across the country and around the world. By providing expertise in many different specialist areas of tax, we cross work with multiple other business lines in BDO UK, and extensively with our wider global BDO teams, to deliver wider business solutions. From meeting clients’ evolving business needs, managing changes to legislation, planning tax training programs, giving one to one support to more junior colleagues and contributing to how we continue to rapidly grow our business, there are always fresh challenges to face in the Expatriate Tax team.

Responsibilities:

• Provide Tax compliance and advisory services to a wide range of clients.
• Manage a portfolio of clients in conjunction with the Manager/Senior Manager including control of billings, and identification of opportunities to improve recoveries, together with cash collection.
• Pay attention to self-development and continuing professional education with a view to progressing within practice.
• Develop professional relationships with clients and within the Firm and adapts the approach for the relevant audience.
• Understand potential risks to the Firm in relation to the Firm’s quality control procedures and raising to the appropriate person.
• Get involved in special assignments on an ad hoc basis.
• Guide and supervise less experienced colleagues.
• Support, train, mentor and advise others, including more junior staff, in own area as well as in other teams in the firm.
• Challenge current practice – driving improvements and championing change.
• Take personal responsibility for own decisions and actions.

Requirements:

• 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.
• Experience of dealing with client senior management.
• Educated to degree level and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent.
• Demonstrable post qualified experience.

Technical knowledge:

• The candidates should be able to demonstrate competency at a tax assistant level, including sufficient knowledge of: Tax returns, associated computations and preparing advice to clients.
• Experience with tax arrival and departure briefings.
• Expatriate tax technical matters, including UK residency issues, expatriate tax specific concessions and an understanding of how earned income is taxed.
• An excellent standard of written work.
• Strong communication skills.

Behaviours and attitude:

Candidates are expected to behave in line with BDO’s values. Our core purpose defines why we do what we do, while our values define how we behave along the way. Our values nurture and protect our culture. Our values ensure that we act with integrity, and they guide everything that we do. Our values start with each of us as individuals. Living by these values helps us all to be the best version of ourselves and encourage an environment that is inclusive and open. We lead by example with authenticity, we are collaborative, inclusive and ambitious.

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.

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.

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:

• 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.