Corporate Tax Director

Overview

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

We work with the companies that are Britain's economic engine - ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams leading 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.

Tax is a dynamic, ever-changing industry. As our clients' needs and the regulatory environment evolve, you'll encounter new problems to solve and new opportunities for growth. Whether it's advising clients on high-profile specialisms like Corporation Tax or leading the implementation of intelligent technology solutions, you'll enjoy variety as well as stretch in your role.

BDO supports all kinds of different businesses in different sectors across the UK and around the world. You'll be providing Tax Advisory services to start-ups and scale-ups, to private businesses and FTSE listed multinationals. Each of our clients has different needs and in applying your expertise in different contexts, you'll develop your skills and gain valuable experience that will serve you throughout your career.

Our tax team based in the Leeds office is 60 strong of which 25 sit in our corporate tax team led by three partners who have an extensive network and client base across Yorkshire and the North East of England, nationally and internationally. The corporate tax team is highly integrated with the indirect tax, employment tax, private client, tax risk assurance and innovation incentives specialists making up the rest of our local tax group.

As a core and year round provider of services, the corporate tax team plays a fundamental role in leading trusted relationships with a variety of exciting businesses to deliver the holistic tax service BDO in Leeds is known for.

With a strong culture and team dynamic that is friendly, team-orientated and very supportive, high performance and enriching development opportunities are a key characteristic of BDO Leeds Tax which makes this a positive place to be, aligning personal purpose and success with excellent client service and impactful results for the BDO business.

We'll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

A talented and experienced tax practitioner who loves to autonomously lead relationships, accounts and large and complex projects will accelerate our realisation of the opportunities within the excellent range of relationships and existing accounts which both the corporate tax and wider tax partner group have, as well as extending out even further into the relationships held by BDO Leeds in audit, deals and consulting.

This role will be leading the tax compliance and advisory services to a wide range of clients, with a particular emphasis on large and complex corporates with international footprint, private equity backed portfolio businesses and transactional tax work.

The primary responsibility will be to deal with all matters relating to leading a portfolio of clients, with a focus on adding wider value for the clients, developing the account teams and taking responsibility for the quality and risk on the assignments delivered. It is expected that this will involve responsibility for a mix of compliance and advisory projects for the portfolio of clients as well leading on one-off project work.

A key part of the role requires the individual to actively seek, and keep the Partner informed about, any new business opportunities arising on existing and new clients and a strong, existing personal network will also be valuable.

You will provide assistance to Partners in both client work and in the management of the group with the opportunity to drive practice development in key strategic areas.

• Be a stakeholder in the delivery of the Tax strategic framework with regular involvement with tax planning and complex tax issues in conjunction with the Leeds Partner group.
• Keep the relevant Partner informed about any new business opportunities arising on existing and new clients.
• Develop/maintain your own network of contacts internally and externally and start to win own work and cross sell.
• Be…