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R&D Tax Manager

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BDO UK LLP

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United Kingdom , Reading

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This is an exciting opportunity for someone with a tax or accounting and R&D financials background to work within BDO’s Innovation & Technology Group based in the South, including Gatwick, Guildford, Reading and Southampton. BDO is 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.

Job Responsibility:

  • Reviewing and/or preparing the financial assessment of claims the financial disclosure which will be submitted to HMRC
  • Review 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
  • Project managing the delivery of our work
  • 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 date

Requirements:

  • A degree level education and/or CTA and/or ACA qualified or equivalent with demonstrable post qualified experience
  • Experience of managing a portfolio of clients including control of client take on and engagement, billings, and identification of opportunities to improve recoveries, together with cash collection
  • Understands potential risks to the Firm in relation to the Firm’s quality control procedures and raising to the appropriate person
  • Experience of leading complex projects
  • Experience of people management
What we offer:
  • Health and wellness programmes
  • Pension plan
  • Private medical
  • Income protection plan
  • Holidays
  • Bike to work scheme

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Job Posted:
December 23, 2025

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