Transactions Tax Manager

Succeed by shaping what matters

We’re BDO, one of the UK’s largest accountancy and business advisory organisations, helping ambitious businesses, their owners and management teams navigate a changing world.  

With circa 8,500 people across the UK and Ireland, backed by a global network spanning 169 countries, there’s lots of knowledge, experience and different thinking to draw on here. But what matters is what you bring to it; your ideas, perspectives - the things you care about getting right. 

So, here’s where you come in: 

The team you’ll join 

BDO’s Corporate Tax practice sits at the heart of our Tax team and works closely with teams across the organisation. We advise clients in the UK and overseas, helping them understand and respond to their tax challenges. 

You’ll work closely with clients and colleagues, with opportunities to contribute your thinking and build your expertise. 

The role you’ll have

The Transaction Tax team of around 30 individuals is 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.

This role requires an experienced transaction tax operative who is comfortable leading a range of tax due diligence, 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 etc 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 client take on and engagement procedures and managing risks around projects.
• Respond 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.
• 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.

You’ll be someone with 

• An 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 staff management experience
• Ability to develop client relationships and to sell new services to existing clients
• Experience of dealing with client senior management and other stakeholders such as legal advisers
• Educated to degree level and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent

You’ll have people around you to learn from, ask questions and share thoughts with, alongside learning programmes to enhance your skillset and digital platforms to ease your work. All of this helps you succeed in achieving those big (and personal) dreams.  

How you’ll succeed

You’ll have plenty of ways to develop at BDO; you might build deeper expertise in what you already do, take on something new or simply get better at the things that matter to you. 

How and where you work matters too. Our agile working framework is designed around our Better Together approach: bringing more in-person time with clients and teams, creating more opportunities to share ideas, build confidence and develop day-to-day. 

Whatever success looks like to you, you won’t be shaping it alone. You’ll have people around you who want you to do well, and plenty of opportunities to make it all count.  

That’s how we’ll all continue to succeed by shaping what matters. 

Apply now. 

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