VAT 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 VAT Advisory services to start-ups, scale-ups, private businesses, FTSE listed multinationals, as well as public sector and not-for-profit entities. 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.

This role will provide VAT advisory services to a wide range of organisations. The primary responsibility will be to deal with all matters relating to the management of a portfolio of clients, including being involved in special assignments on an ad hoc basis, whilst ensuring the Firm’s quality and risk standards are met. The role will be supported by the VAT Director and VAT Partner.

Responsibilities:

• Provide VAT advisory services with some compliance element to a wide range of clients, getting involved in special assignments on an ad hoc basis.
• Ensure the Firm’s quality control procedures are adhered to as appropriate, and the Firm’s professional standards are met.
• Highlight risk, quality control and technical matters to the Partner/Director, whilst exercising judgement within agreed parameters.
• Develop professional relationships with clients and within the Firm, adapting the approach for the relevant audience.
• Take ownership and manage a portfolio of clients including client take on and engagement; billings and recovery rates; and debt management.
• Act as a key point of contact within the Firm for the client, responding promptly to, as well as anticipating, client requests/needs.
• Ensure assignments are completed within agreed budgets and timescales and keep client/Partner/Director informed of overruns.
• Liaise with HMRC and other stakeholders.
• Self-development and continuing professional education with a view to progressing within the Firm.
• Support, train, mentor and advise others in own area.
• Challenge current practice – driving improvements and championing change.

Requirements:

• An in-depth, up-to-date, technical knowledge of VAT and the ability to deal with complex issues.
• Project and staff management experience.
• Ability to manage a client portfolio profitably.
• Experience of dealing with client management and HMRC.
• CTA and/or ACA qualified or experienced within HMRC.
• Demonstrable VAT advisory experience.
• Take personal responsibility for own decisions and actions.

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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 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.

We’re looking forward to the future. 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.