Real Estate Tax Manager / 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 Tax team is friendly, driven and diverse, servicing 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. 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, 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 throughout your career.

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice, which grows from a thorough understanding of their business. You’ll be someone who is comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners.

The award‑winning Real Estate & Construction tax team at BDO serves a wide and exciting range of domestic and international companies with UK operations. This industry continues to grow rapidly, presenting new challenges or opportunities that you can take on.

• This role will provide corporate tax compliance, advisory and accounting services to a range of clients from small start‑ups to major multinationals, predominantly within the real estate and construction sector.
• Develop relationships with clients to advise on corporate tax planning and restructuring projects in the UK, as well as producing complex UK tax computations and returns.
• Proactively manage your own workload, communicating with managers/directors/partners on a regular basis.
• Identify further opportunities to develop new work.

• An understanding of and previous experience within UK corporate tax compliance.
• Some experience of providing corporate tax advisory and compliance services to primarily corporate groups.
• Keenness to develop a career within the real estate profession.
• Ability to prepare proposals for new work, including researching target client companies and technical issues.
• Ability to manage a small client portfolio.
• Experience dealing with client senior management and key stakeholders.
• Educated to degree level, and CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent.

At BDO, we’re committed to agile working, offering every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task at hand. We’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, providing 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. Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts.

We know that collaboration is key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning 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.

• 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.