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

The Trust specialists in our Private Wealth team deal with tax planning and compliance for UK and offshore trusts, estates and UK private grant-making charities and they have ambitious growth plans with a significant part of the work being ad hoc consultancy.

This role is part of the management team and is responsible for assisting Partners and senior staff in servicing clients, directing Trust services and managing people within the team. Trust tax and accounting skills are essential.

The primary responsibility will be to act as a point of contact within the firm for the client together with the partner and senior staff.  You will deal with all matters relating to the management of a portfolio of existing clients including billings and cash collection within the firm’s criteria but with a significant element of ad hoc consultancy work.

Key to the role is for the individual to be able to pro-actively manage their own workload, provide overall support to Partners on client matters and assist Partners in the management of the group.  Furthermore, the individual will be expected to recognise business and sales opportunities and progress these forward with senior staff and Partners.

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:

• Proven specialist technical private client experience, and the ability to deal with complex tax issues, gained within a practice environment

• Experience providing trust, estate and charity advice to high-net-worth individuals and trustees

• An in depth, up to date, knowledge of taxation including Trust and IHT related matters

• Experience of reviewing Trust accounts and associated tax aspects (e.g. relevant income and stockpiled gains tax pools)

• Experience of dealing with client senior management

• Some experience of seeking opportunities for developing new clients and for selling new services to existing clients

• Staff management experience

• Educated to degree level, and CTA and/or STEP qualified

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.