EMPLOYMENT TAX ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - BDO

Employment Tax Associate Director

Ideas | People | Trust

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

We’ll broaden your horizons

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.

We’ll help you succeed

Associate Director is a senior role. You will be a key member of the London Employment Tax group, responsible for providing employment tax advisory and compliance services to a wide range of clients.

You will be entrepreneurially minded and a work winner. You will be excellent at building relationships and closing sales and whilst some existing clients will be transferred to you, you will be responsible for building a portfolio by developing targets in order to ensure the continued growth of the business. You will also provide assistance to senior members of staff in both client work and in the management of the group, as appropriate. Naturally there is a junior team to leverage.

When you join us, we’ll make your growth our priority. If you can demonstrate the following skills, we can help you go far.

We’re looking for someone with:

Ability to maintain an in depth, up to date, knowledge of taxation
Specialist knowledge and the ability to deal with complex tax issues
Ability to build relationships and to sell
Project management experience
Staff management experience
Ability to manage a substantial client portfolio profitably
Participate in bids/proposals for new work
Able to commoditise new ideas and take advantage of marketing/PR opportunities
Develop own network of contacts internally and externally and win own work
Experience of dealing with client senior management
Educated to degree level and/or CTA and/or ATT/ACA qualified or qualified by experience
We’re in it together

At BDO, we believe that when our people feel valued and rewarded, their potential is unlimited. We offer highly competitive starting salaries and review remuneration packages regularly to ensure that our pay always positively reflects performance. As well offering support with tuition and professional qualifications, we also provide the following benefits, as standard:

28 days’ holiday;
access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions;
life assurance cover and income protection insurance.
That’s not all. We understand that everyone is different so, we offer a range of voluntary benefits to suit every lifestyle. Our flexible benefits platform, Flexcel, means our people can choose from a range of tax efficient options to design a benefit package that best suits them. Through Flexcel, they can:

buy up to ten days’ extra holiday;
add on private medical, personal accident, dental insurance or travel insurance;
enrol in our Bike to Work scheme;
enjoy discounts off cinemas, dining, and gyms;
receive an interest free season ticket loan or interest free graduate loan;
access childcare vouchers;
take an online health assessment and utilise our employee assistance programme.
We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we’re big enough to make the difference and collaborative enough to never lose sight of where we’re going. We know that it’s our people that make our success possible. Across our 17 UK locations, more than 5,000 of them work together to provide tax, audit, assurance and a range of advisory services that help our clients achieve their ambitious goals. Together, they’re fuelling Britain’s economic engine. Behind every complex client challenge and every untapped innovation, they’re there: ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to invest in our people. That means providing them with an environment where they can grow, learn, laugh and feel respected, at all times.