Corporate and M&A Tax Transactions Associate Director

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We’ll help you succeed
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You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.
Overview
The Corporate and M&A team has over 20 individuals 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 of Associate Director (Grade 015) 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.
Responsibilities

• 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.
  

Requirements

• 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 be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at 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.
We’re in it together
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.
Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. 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 the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. 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. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions
We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.
Rewards & Benefits
We offer a wide range of core and voluntary benefits, with a few examples below.
Health and Wellness Programmes
We promote a positive working environment where our people can thrive.
Pension Plan
A Group Personal Pension Plan, with matched employer contributions.
Private Medical
Access to private medical treatment for you and your family.
Income Protection Plan
Provides a proportion of your basic salary if you suffer a loss of earnings because of illness or injury.
Holidays
Our holiday benefit enables you to purchase up to 10 days of additional leave.
Bike to work scheme
A convenient, environmentally friendly and tax-effective way to acquire a bike for travelling to and from work.

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