Transaction Taxes Director

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Working hard and working together, our tax team thrives on keeping busy. 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.

The transaction tax team has over 40 individuals nationally, focussed on delivering high quality transaction tax services to private equity houses and acquisitive corporates across a range of sectors. The team has a focussed growth plan and your contribution will add to this.

The role, based in the Thames Valley, requires an experienced transaction tax operative who is comfortable leading a range of tax due diligence work, both buy side and sell side, and tax structuring assignments. The role will require working closely with other members of the team including tax specialist colleagues in VAT, employment taxes and with colleagues in Transaction Services. The role requires technical excellence as well as the ability to think commercially and to communicate tax technical issues to various stakeholders.

• Lead a variety of tax due diligence and tax structuring projects, working closely with other specialists within the firm and the transaction support team.
• Develop your own network of contacts internally and externally and start winning own work and cross selling.
• Be responsible for managing risks around projects.
• Provide a strong client experience, including responding quickly to, as well as anticipating, client requests/needs, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the transaction service provided, and maintaining regular contact with clients and internal stakeholders.
• Provide input into legal documents and forecast models.
• Be responsible for coaching and developing junior members of staff.
• Contribute to the development of certain key transaction relationships, e.g. key private equity accounts.
• Input into wider strategy and business development activities, including ensuring that we realise opportunities from deal work (such as post deal advisory, exit readiness, etc).

• In-depth, up-to-date knowledge of taxation with specialist knowledge and the ability to deal with complex tax issues arising on transactions.
• Demonstrable relevant transactions experience.
• Project and people management experience.
• Ability to develop client relationships and to identify and convert opportunities for expanding our services to existing clients.
• Experience of dealing with client senior management and other stakeholders such as legal advisers.
• CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent.

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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.

We offer a wide range of core and voluntary benefits.

We promote a positive working environment where our people can thrive.

A Group Personal Pension Plan, with matched employer contributions.

Access to private medical treatment for you and your family.

Provides a proportion of your basic salary if you suffer a loss of earnings because of illness or injury.

Our holiday benefit enables you to purchase up to 10 days of additional leave.

A convenient, environmentally friendly and tax-effective way to acquire a bike for travelling to and from work.