Real Estate Tax Director

Ideas | People | Trust 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 that lead them. 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 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.

As market leaders, the award-winning Real Estate & Construction tax team at BDO serves a wide and exciting range of domestic and international businesses with UK operations. It’s your chance to experience a focused and unique blend of the highest level of technical expertise and further your appreciation for the commercial aspects of property transactions. This industry continues to grow rapidly, so there are always new challenges or opportunities that you can take on.

At the heart of our success are the strong and progressive relationships we build with our clients and colleagues. With a focus on continuing development and exposure to clients and senior partners, you'll have all the freedom you need to grow your career. 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.

Key to the role of Director is for the individual to be able to pro-actively manage their own workload, communicating with partners on a regular basis to service their clients. This is essential due to the size and nature of the team. Furthermore, the individual will be expected to be able to consider and highlight further opportunities to develop new work.

• Significant understanding of and previous experience within real estate tax compliance
• Significant experience of providing real estate tax advisory and compliance services to a variety of clients within the real estate sector
• Ability to manage the successful delivery of commercially viable and technically excellent advice to a variety of clients involving tax due diligence, structuring, international and other advisory work and including liaising with specialists in other tax teams and overseas BDO offices to manage their input
• Ability to prepare proposals for new work, including researching target client companies and on technical issues to identify new solutions
• Experience of managing staff
• Ability to actively seek opportunities for selling new services to existing clients
• Educated to degree level, and 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…