Real Estate Tax Manager / Assistant Manager in East Kilbride

We are 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 will 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 that will serve you 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, so there are always new challenges or opportunities that you can take on.

Responsibilities:

• 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.
• Work and 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 to service their clients.
• Identify further opportunities to develop new work.

We’re looking for someone with:

• 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, but may include partnership tax returns and non-resident landlord income tax returns.
• 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 to identify new solutions.
• Ability to manage a small client portfolio.
• Ability to actively seek opportunities for selling new services to existing clients.
• Some experience of dealing with client senior management and key stakeholders.
• Educated to degree level, and CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent.

We’re committed to agile working, offering 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, with 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.

At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work. We know that collaboration is 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 shape the future together with openness and clarity, empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.