Corporate Tax Assistant Manager / Manager in Guildford

We are BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate today’s changing world. Our clients are Britain’s economic engine—ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy.

BDO’s Corporate Tax practice sits at the heart of our Tax function and plays an important role in the wider business. Our team works collaboratively with others across BDO, offering clients in the UK and overseas expert advice and solutions that help them overcome their challenges. Tax is a dynamic, ever-changing industry. 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 that will serve you throughout your career.

Our clients trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, which comes from working closely with clients and building long-lasting relationships. You’ll be someone who can work pro-actively, managing your own tasks, but you’ll also be confident collaborating with others, communicating regularly with senior managers, Directors, and BDO’s Partners to enable us to serve our clients effectively.

This role will provide Tax compliance and advisory services to a wide range of corporate and owner-managed clients. The primary responsibility will be to deal with all matters relating to the management of a portfolio of clients. You will also provide assistance to Director/Partners in both client work and in the management of the group and on occasions the practice.

Responsibilities include:

• Acting as a key point of contact within the firm for the client, together with the Senior Manager/Partner.
• Responding quickly to, as well as anticipating, client requests/needs.
• Keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the service provided.
• Maintaining regular contact with clients.
• Taking full responsibility for project delivery on your portfolio.
• Managing a portfolio of clients including control of billings and cash collection.
• Reviewing work prepared by more junior members of staff.
• Liaising with HMRC.
• Ensuring assignments are completed within agreed budgets.
• Identifying risk and technical matters, as well as selling opportunities, to the Partner/Senior Manager/Manager.

Requirements:

• Educated to degree level, and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent.
• Guide and supervise less experienced colleagues.
• Support, train, mentor and advise others in your area.
• Challenge current practice, driving improvements and championing change.
• Take personal responsibility for your decisions and actions and those of others.
• Lead projects of limited scale or complexity.

We’re committed to agile working, and we offer everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task in 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.

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 our clients and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

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.