Manager - Tax Advisory

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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 proactively 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.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Manager to join our Tax Advisory team, supporting an Advisory Director and Partners. This is a key role within the team, acting as a bridge between senior leadership and junior staff, with responsibility for delivering high-quality advisory work, managing a small portfolio of clients, and developing the wider team.

The role is predominantly advisory-focused, with significant involvement in corporate tax transactions and complex structuring projects. In addition, you will oversee a small portfolio of compliance work, ensuring delivery is efficient, accurate, and aligned with client needs.

You will work with a diverse client base ranging from large corporates to owner-managed businesses (OMBs), advising on M&A, reorganisations, MBOs, Employee Ownership Trusts (EoTs), and international expansion.

Key Responsibilities

Client Delivery & Advisory

• Lead and deliver high-quality corporate tax advisory services, including:
  • M&A transactions (buy-side and sell-side)
  • Reorganisations, MBOs, and Employee Ownership Trusts (EoTs)
  • International expansion and structuring
  • Tax due diligence and structuring advice
• Manage and review complex advisory projects, ensuring commercially focused, technically robust outcomes
• Act as a key point of contact for clients, building strong and trusted relationships
• Anticipate client needs and proactively identify opportunities to add value

Compliance & Portfolio Management

• Manage a small portfolio of clients, including oversight of corporate tax compliance
• Review compliance work prepared by junior team members, ensuring quality and timeliness
• Maintain strong client relationships across the portfolio, acting as a trusted adviser
• Ensure compliance processes are delivered efficiently and aligned to wider advisory opportunities

Project & Team Leadership

• Lead complex projects, coordinating input from specialists, including international teams where required
• Demonstrate strong project management across multiple concurrent assignments
• Act as a key mentor and coach to junior team members
• Provide technical guidance, training, and support to develop team capability
• Serve as a key link between junior team members and senior leadership

Business Development

• Identify and develop new business opportunities from existing and prospective clients
• Support Partners and Directors in preparing proposals and winning new work
• Build and maintain a strong internal and external network
• Actively contribute to cross-selling initiatives across service lines
• Keep Partners informed of potential opportunities and market developments

Key Skills & Experience

• Strong corporate tax advisory experience, with a focus on transactions and restructurings
• Proven experience in M&A tax, due diligence, and structuring
• Experience managing both advisory assignments and compliance portfolios
• Exposure to a wide range of clients, including large corporates and OMBs
• Some personal tax experience is desirable but not essential
• Excellent client-facing and relationship management skills
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to deliver practical, actionable advice
• Demonstrable project management capability across complex assignments
• Experience managing, mentoring, and developing junior staff
• Ability to collaborate effectively across teams and geographies

Qualifications

• CTA and/or ACA qualified (or equivalent)
• Degree educated (or equivalent experience)

Additional Information

• The role is based across Cambridge and Ipswich, with flexibility required to spend time in both locations
• This is a key position within a growing advisory team, offering strong progression opportunities and exposure to senior stakeholders

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.