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 with every department at BDO, our Finance team helps us meet relevant legal requirements that ensure our firm operates effectively in a tightly-regulated field. They implement strategies that help us innovate – like combining new technology with traditional financial processes to make us even more digital. As part of this friendly team, you’ll enjoy flexible hours and have opportunities to take responsibility for the delivery of quality work. With your colleagues behind you, you’ll embrace change, new ideas and have an impact on the future of our firm.

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.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working pro-actively 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.

The key purpose of this role

The key purpose of this role is to deal with the corporate tax matters for the various entities making up the firm.

In this role you’ll:

• Review and approve computations of tax adjusted profits for submission to HMRC in corporation tax returns.
• Review & update reports from the firms accounting systems monthly to identify disallowable expenses.
• Review fixed asset records to prepare capital allowance calculations.
• Review and approve corporate tax returns for the subsidiary companies.
• Liaise with HMRC in relation to corporate tax matters.
• Reconcile ledger accounts quarterly to ensure balances held are correctly stated.
• Assisting client project managers, credit control and Accounts Receivable with queries arising on foreign tax matters and to prevent or mitigate deductions of withholding tax by clients. Review of Double Tax Treaties, liaising with HMRC to obtain Certificates of Residence, and with international member firms to obtain repayments from their jurisdiction where appropriate.
• Maintain the BDO Transfer Pricing policy and provide guidance to stakeholders on application of the policy to inter-company transactions.
• Provide support with the Country-by-Country Reporting actions and assist gathering aggregate disclosure information across reporting entities in the group.
• Support with Pillar 2 implementation and GIR reporting processes for group entities across relevant jurisdictions.
• More broadly, provide general corporation tax guidance and advice on group entity compliance obligations in the UK and overseas, and support leadership and internal stakeholders to understand the corporation tax consequences of BDO transactions and acquisitions.
• Involvement with various aspects of the organisation’s Tax Governance as relates to corporation tax matters, including BRR readiness and response, SAO reviews as impact corporation tax obligations and maintain appropriate tax compliance controls.
• Support the organisation’s Tax Strategy through implementing responsible tax behaviours and adding to the value that tax operations provides our business.