198 Full time, Accountancy jobs in St Albans

Stamp Taxes Director

Employer
BDO

Location
London

Salary
Competitive Salary & Excellent Benefits

Closing date
2 Jul 2025

Sector
Stamp Duty

Role
Tax Director

Contract Type
Permanent

Job Details

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

As market leaders, the award-winning Real Estate & Construction tax team at BDO serves a wide and exciting range of domestic and international businesses with UK operations. It's your chance to experience a focused and unique blend of the highest level of technical expertise and further your appreciation for the commercial aspects of property transactions.

This industry continues to grow rapidly, so there are always new challenges or opportunities that you can take on. At the heart of our success are the strong and progressive relationships we build with our clients and colleagues. With a focus on continuing development and exposure to clients and senior partners, you'll have all the freedom you need to grow your career.

Tax is a dynamic, ever-changing industry.

As our clients' needs and the regulatory environment evolve, you'll encounter new problems to solve and new opportunities for growth. BDO supports all kinds of different businesses in different sectors across the UK and around the world. You'll be providing Stamp Taxes advice to start-ups and scale-ups, to private businesses and FTSE listed multinationals. Each of our clients has different needs and in applying your expertise in different contexts, you'll develop your skills and gain valuable experience that will serve you throughout your career.

We'll help you succeed

Our clients 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 clients and building long-lasting relationships.

Key to the role is for the individual to be able to pro-actively manage their own workload, communicating with directors/partners on a regular basis to service their clients. This is essential due to the size and nature of the team. Furthermore, the individual will be expected to be able to consider and share technical developments and thought leadership and highlight further opportunities to develop new work.

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:

• Significant experience of providing Stamp Taxes advice to a variety of clients within the real estate sector and more generally
• Ability to manage the successful delivery of commercially viable and technically excellent advice to a variety of clients involving tax due diligence, structuring, international and other advisory work
• An interest in actively developing and maintaining internal and external stakeholder relationships, and helping to manage business development activities and identify new opportunities
• Sound judgement, including the ability to identify and evaluate ethical/ risk issues and know when to involve others
• High level of drive and enthusiasm with a positive attitude, and ability and willingness to keep up to date technically and to share new technical developments and thought leadership
• Commercial awareness and ability to positively engage with clients
• Educated to degree level and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent and demonstrable post qualified experience.

You'll also 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 everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task in 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.

Company

We're one of the UK's largest Accountancy and Business Advisory firms providing Audit, Advisory and Tax services to organisations all over the world. When the most entrepreneurial and high-growth businesses need advice on accountancy and business, they turn to BDO.

Whatever you think you know about tax, you don't know life at BDO. Operating out of 18 locations across the UK and 166 countries, we're part of one of the world's largest accounting and business advisory firms - but we're so much more than that. We are an ambitious, high-growth and winning business, helping our clients and people succeed.

• Significant experience of providing Stamp Taxes advice to a variety of clients within the real estate sector and more generally
• Ability to manage the successful delivery of commercially viable and technically excellent advice to a variety of clients involving tax due diligence, structuring, international and other advisory work
• An interest in actively developing and maintaining internal and external stakeholder relationships, and helping to manage business development activities and identify new opportunities
• Sound judgement, including the ability to identify and evaluate ethical/ risk issues and know when to involve others
• High level of drive and enthusiasm with a positive attitude, and ability and willingness to keep up to date technically and to share new technical developments and thought leadership
• Commercial awareness and ability to positively engage with clients
• Educated to degree level and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent and demonstrable post qualified experience.
You'll also 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 everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task in hand.

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 As market leaders, the award-winning Real Estate & Construction tax team at BDO serves a wide and exciting range of domestic and international businesses with UK operations. It's your chance to experience a focused and unique blend of the highest level of technical expertise and further your appreciation for the commercial aspects of property transactions. This industry continues to grow rapidly, so there are always new challenges or opportunities that you can take on. At the heart of our success are the strong and progressive relationships we build with our clients and colleagues. With a focus on continuing development and exposure to clients and senior partners, you'll have all the freedom you need to grow your career. Tax is a dynamic, ever-changing industry. As our clients' needs and the regulatory environment evolve, you'll encounter new problems to solve and new opportunities for growth. . BDO supports all kinds of different businesses in different sectors across the UK and around the world. You'll be providing Stamp Taxes advice to to start-ups and scale-ups, to private businesses and FTSE listed multinationals. Each of our clients has different needs and in applying your expertise in different contexts, you'll develop your skills and gain valuable experience that will serve you throughout your career. We'll help you succeed Our clients 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 clients and building long-lasting relationships. Key to the role is for the individual to be able to pro-actively manage their own workload, communicating with directors/partners on a regular basis to service their clients. This is essential due to the size and nature of the team. Furthermore, the individual will be expected to be able to consider and share technical developments and thought leadership and highlight further opportunities to develop new work. When you join us, we'll make your growth our priority. If you can demonstrate the following skills, we can help you go far., 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., We're one of the UK's largest Accountancy and Business Advisory firms providing Audit, Advisory and Tax services to organisations all over the world. When the most entrepreneurial and high-growth businesses need advice on accountancy and business, they turn to BDO. Whatever you think you know about tax, you don't know life at BDO. Operating out of 18 locations across the UK and 166 countries, we're part of one of the world's largest accounting and business advisory firms - but we're so much more than that. We are an ambitious, high-growth and winning business, helping our clients and people succeed.