R&D Assistant Manager

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 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.

Our Innovation Tax team covers R&D and Patent Box advice to our clients. We work alongside the firm’s key sector teams. Our people have flexibility in the areas and sectors they cover and are able to support the teams’ growth through their contribution. You will work with great people and great clients in a vibrant and innovative team.

Within this role, you will provide R&D and Patent Box services to a range of clients from small start-ups to major multinationals across all lines of the sector. You will regularly engage with stakeholders at all levels, so it is important that you are able to clearly articulate complex tax issues and develop effective solutions and relationships with clients.

You will also:

• Provide R&D and Patent Box services to a wide range of clients using resources from a specialist team or via technology tools.
• Manage 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.
• 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 adapt the approach for the relevant audience.
• Understand potential risks to the Firm in relation to the Firm’s quality control procedures and raise 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 in own area.
• Challenge current practice – driving improvements and championing change.
• Take personal responsibility for own decisions and actions and those of others.
• Lead projects of limited scale or complexity.

If you can demonstrate the following skills, we can help you go far:

• An in-depth, up-to-date knowledge of taxation with specialist knowledge and the ability to deal with complex tax issues.
• 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.

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.

We offer a wide range of core and voluntary benefits, including:

• 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.