Tax Assurance & Risk Management Senior Manager

Overview

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions all organisations need to navigate today’s changing world. We work with the 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.

We’ll broaden your horizons. Working, achieving, and thriving together, our Tax team move with every challenge. Friendly, driven and diverse, they service our 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. 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 (including in relation to the Senior Accounting Officer and Corporate Criminal Offences regimes, the tax strategy publication requirement and HMRC’s Business Risk Review process) and strategically improve their tax operations and tax control framework, manage tax risk and provide assurance to tax authorities and business stakeholders.

Technology is an important part of helping our clients succeed and we encourage innovation at all levels in our team. We are an award-winning specialist tax team.

This is a dynamic client-facing role that requires excellent client relationship, communication and project management skills, and the ability to distil complex concepts into easily understood information suitable for a wide array of stakeholders. Most of your work will be client facing and will require you to actively manage client portfolios, manage project delivery, coordinating junior resource and BDO tax specialists, to deliver exceptional client service.

Owning client relationships with the senior team is key, and you’ll be heavily involved in business development and innovation activities to support our business growth.

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 at the senior manager level, we require candidates with a depth of tax experience, specifically with TA&RM experience, 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.

• Act as a key point of contact within the firm for our clients, together with the senior team.
• Demonstrate TA&RM experience (including tax strategy, SAO and CCO compliance, HMRC Business Risk Reviews, developing the tax control framework and tax operating model, advising on tax risk management such as tax risk registers).
• Maintain a strong presentation style and ability to host workshops, training sessions and webinars, often to Board level, with the ability to talk knowledgeably about a range of tax issues.
• Lead end-to-end project delivery, managing complex projects to deliver quality advice.
• Develop and maintain an interest in helping clients enhance tax governance and create bespoke scopes of work to meet client needs.
• Take personal responsibility for decisions and the actions of others.
• Meet educational requirements: degree level and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent, or relevant experience.

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business.…