Assistant Manager - Capital Allowances

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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 capital allowance team thrives on keeping busy. Friendly, driven and diverse, we are a national team serving clients both across the country and around the world. We provide expertise in this specialist area of tax, working and collaborating 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 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

You will be responsible for assisting in the management of day-to-day analysis and production of capital allowances and land remediation relief claims and advice for a range of clients, supported by junior associates within the team. You’ll also be involved in supporting tax partners, directors and managers across the team and across wider tax with proposals and pitching for capital allowances advisory work, as well as supporting on wider tax due diligence and transaction exercises for our clients.

The role provides an exciting opportunity for the successful candidate to develop their technical, commercial and client relationship skills in a supportive and collaborative environment, working with colleagues who are recognised as experts in the sector.

Our client base will provide you with a fantastic opportunity to work on a challenging and varied portfolio. BDO supports all kinds of different businesses in different sectors across the UK and around the world. You’ll be providing capital allowances and land remediation relief advisory services to some of the largest FTSE listed real estate investors and REITs, from start-ups to internationally recognised restauranteurs and hoteliers, premier league football clubs as well as renewable energy investments such as offshore wind farm projects.

Key to the role is for the individual to be able to pro-actively manage their own workload, communicating with clients, managers, directors and partners on a regular basis. Furthermore, you will be given the autonomy to identify and pursue opportunities to develop new work.

When you join us, we’ll make your growth our priority. In our expanding team there are excellent opportunities for rapid progression and if you can demonstrate the following skills, we can help you go far. We’re ideally looking for someone with:

• Experience of providing capital allowances advisory and valuation services (1 – 3 years)
• Ideally MRICS/ATT/CTA/ACCA qualified or suitably experienced within the industry;
• A keen interest to develop further and progress your career in capital allowances;
• An in depth, up to date, knowledge of capital allowances and land remediation legislation;
• Excellent communication and written skills to ensure they are an effective first point of contact for their projects by both clients and internally by collegues;
• A desire and ability to highlight and actively seek opportunities for developing new clients and for selling new services to existing clients.

Above all, we are looking for individuals who enjoy their work, enjoy building relationships and in providing clients with good, quality work and service. The above experience is ideal, but we will support the right candidate with coaching and development where required, to ensure they develop and flourish in their career at BDO.

We’re in it together

At BDO, we believe that when our people feel valued and rewarded, their potential is unlimited. We offer highly competitive starting salaries and review remuneration packages regularly to ensure that our pay always positively reflects performance. As well offering support with tuition and professional qualifications, we also provide the following benefits, as standard:

• 25 days’ holiday;
• access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions;
• life assurance cover;
• and income protection insurance.

That’s not all. We understand that everyone is different so, we offer a range of voluntary benefits to suit every lifestyle. Our flexible benefits platform, Flexcel, means our people can choose from a range of tax efficient options to design a benefit package that best suits them. Through Flexcel, they can:

• buy up to ten days’ extra holiday;
• add on private medical, personal accident, dental insurance or travel insurance;
• enrol in our Bike to Work scheme;
• enjoy discounts off cinemas, dining, and gyms;
• receive an interest free season ticket loan or interest free graduate loan;
• access childcare vouchers;
• take an online health assessment and utilise our employee assistance programme.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we’re big enough to make the difference and collaborative enough to never lose sight of where we’re going. We know that it’s our people that make our success possible. Across our 17 UK locations, more than 5,000 of them work together to provide tax, audit, assurance and a range of advisory services that help our clients achieve their ambitious goals. Together, they’re fuelling Britain’s economic engine. Behind every complex client challenge and every untapped innovation, they’re there: ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to invest in our people. That means providing them with an environment where they can grow, learn, laugh and feel respected, at all times.

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