Senior Tax Governance & Risk Manager (Compton) in Surrey

We are BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions all organisations need to navigate today’s changing world. We work with companies that are Britain’s economic engine—ambitious and entrepreneurially-spirited businesses that fuel the economy, whether privately or publicly owned—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, we 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.

Our Tax Assurance Risk Management (TA RM) team is a fast-growing collaborative team of around 15 people nationally, led by three dedicated tax partners, who together support a wide variety of private, private equity-backed, and listed clients across sectors. Our work has helped many clients meet their legislative tax governance compliance obligations and strategically improve their tax operations and tax control framework, manage tax risk, and provide assurance to tax authorities and business stakeholders.

This is a dynamic client-facing role that requires excellent client relationship, communication, and project management skills, with the ability to distil tax concepts into easily understood information suitable for a wide array of stakeholders. Most of your work will be client-facing, reporting to senior managers, directors, and partners, and will require you to actively manage your client portfolio and project delivery, coordinating teams to deliver exceptional client service, in addition to supporting business development activities.

This role will involve consideration of a range of taxes including corporate, indirect, and employment taxes; our work is broader than any one area of tax and we require candidates with good commercial awareness who are eager to learn, adapt, and contribute to this area of growth for the business. Importantly, we are looking for natural curiosity about how tax functions and businesses run, from the governance, processes, and controls to the people and technology they use and the tax technical issues relevant to them.

You’ll be both comfortable working pro-actively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

We are looking for someone:

• Who can act as a key point of contact within the firm for the client, together with senior members of the team.
• With experience of TA RM work (including tax process, tax strategy, SAO, CCO, tax risk registers etc.) with a keen interest in tax governance and developing tax operations.
• With broad tax technical experience to be able to talk knowledgeably at a good level about a range of tax issues.
• With experience in end-to-end project delivery and quality advice/report writing skills.
• With a strong presentation style, and confidence in hosting workshops, training sessions, and webinars, often to Board level.
• Educated to degree level, and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent, or relevant experience.

We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit our clients, the task at hand, our teams, and you. 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. 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.