Company Secretarial Manager

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.

We’ll broaden your horizons 

The Business Services and Outsourcing team are essential to meeting our clients' evolving requirements. As well as delivering long-term, sustainable value to businesses by providing a range of solutions such as accounting, payroll and compliance services, they also play a key role in tying together many of our services across BDO both domestically and internationally. By building deep and meaningful relationships with a range of clients from ambitious entrepreneurial SMEs to large multi-national groups, our BS&O team don’t just advise on their specific business challenges, they open doors for other teams to provide our firm’s wider service offering. To succeed in this agile environment, you’ll need to demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills and initiative. In return, you’ll have the opportunity for progression, and the chance to develop in one of the industry’s most exciting and varied roles.

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.

You’ll be someone who can work pro-actively, managing your own tasks, but you’ll also be confident collaborating with others, communicating regularly with senior managers, Directors, and BDO’s Partners to enable us to serve our clients effectively.  You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to our clients.

Role Overview:

Your opportunity to join the Business Services and Outsourcing (“BSO”) team in Birmingham, providing company secretarial support to clients of BDO’s Southern Region, working closely with the other BSO managers, along with local tax and audit teams. There will also be a proportion of work received from other regions, including London, and enquiries from network offices around the world regarding inward investment opportunities.

As a Company Secretarial Manager  you will have responsibility for advising staff on all aspects of company secretarial work, undertaking advisory work for clients, undertaking compliance work as necessary and supervising junior staff. You will also liaise with, and support, company secretarial managers and staff in other offices as necessary. You will take responsibility for all aspects of service delivery from client take on to completion of a job, ensuring that all assignments are delivered to a high quality and within agreed timescales, reporting directly to the Southern Region BSO partner. 

Another key aspect of the role will be taking responsibility for proactively contributing to the management of all company secretarial business development activity. This will include preparing pricing for new opportunities, production of proposals and collaborating on the day-to-day management of the pipeline of opportunities.

In addition to client facing work and business development activity you will also work to provide support to the wider company secretarial team on issues including resourcing, coaching and feedback to more junior members of staff, ensuring compliance with the stream’s policies and procedures and the firm’s risk management procedures.

You’ll be someone with:

• Graduate, associate or fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute (formerly ICSA).
• Experience in a managerial position in a professional firm, listed PLC or dedicated company secretarial provider.
• Experience of using Diligent Entities (formerly Blueprint) company secretarial software.
• Ability to communicate and work with BDO staff at all levels in the UK and around the world along with directors of client companies and their professional advisers.     

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.

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.

We can provide the best support for our clients and people when we’reworking side by side.  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’llalways 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 our clients and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-artcollaboration spaces in our offices.  BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’llencourage youto 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 them. Across 17 UK locations, we are 6,500 unique minds coming together to help our clients reach 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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