Tax Manager – Partnership Tax

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 is to deal with the personal and partnership 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 partnership tax returns, including allocation of taxable profits and other investment income & CGT of the LLP in line with partnership sharing agreements.
• 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 partnership tax returns for the LLP.
• Prepare and update models to calculate tax and deferred tax provision movements for partners.
• Assist and advise partners with personal tax compliance matters.
• Prepare and update models to advise partners of tax payments to be made to their personal SA accounts by the firm and provide information to enable them to complete their personal tax returns in advance of the filing deadline. Providing updated tax return information where initial details were given on a provisional basis.
• Reviewing payments on account potential for claims to reduce and liaising with partners and HMRC on claims.
• Liaise with HMRC in relation to partnership tax matters.
• 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 relevant & cost effective.
• Involvement with various aspects of the organisation’s Tax Governance as relates to partnership tax matters, including BRR readiness and response, SAO reviews as impact partnership 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.

You’ll be someone with:

• Good communication skills both written and verbal.
• Good planning and time management.
• Experience with either Alphatax or CCH Personal Tax software would be of assistance.
• A good knowledge of Excel.
• Experience with macros/VBA would be helpful, but not essential.
• Professional tax qualification.

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.

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