IDEAS | PEOPLE | TRUST

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate today’s changing world.
Our clients are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and the owners and management teams that lead them.

KEY SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED

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 are looking for someone with:

• Ideally qualified ACA/CTA (or equivalent) with demonstrable post-qualified experience.
• Minimum 3 years’ R&D financials / costing experience.
• Strong numerical ability and excel skills.
• Displays attention to detail, accuracy first time, proven analytical skills as well as an interest in project and company finances, strong numerical ability and the application of tax treatment.
• Experience in efficiently managing a portfolio of work and managing multiple, sometimes conflicting deadlines.
• Excellent communication (both spoken and written), curiosity, awareness and an interest in the fields of financial services / fintech, technology and innovation.
• Ability to interact readily with other financial and technical professionals, have outstanding interpersonal skills and excel in eloquence and concise summary of information.
• Experience in working within a business unit with internal (and external) clients.
• Understanding of accounts and tax computations for the purposes of understanding the benefit to the client.
• High proactivity in the approach to new work opportunities, whilst being a team player and having an ability to work on own initiative.
• Ability to project a professional, credible, and trustworthy image and maintain strict confidentiality.
• Ability to travel to clients’ premises for meetings and on-site reviews as well as other offices as needed.

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 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.

• Undertaking the financial assessment of claims and preparing the financial disclosure which will be submitted to HMRC
• Preparation and submission of the R&D Additional Information Form and Pre-Notifications
• Ensuring R&D claims meet the requirements of the relevant tax legislation and guidelines
• Liaison with our technical tax staff on the preparation of tax documents comprising these R&D claims for submission of claims to HMRC
• Supporting R&D Tax Relief claims in the event of HMRC R&D enquiries
• Supporting in the preparation of Patent Box claims
• Continuously developing own knowledge and skills and to keep technical knowledge up to dat