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.

BDO’s Global Business Services team specialises in providing international accounting services.  We require a Senior Executive to join our team to deliver all aspects of client accounting operations to our growing client base. The team has experienced significant growth in recent years and this position offers a real opportunity for the right candidate to join a successful and expanding team with proven career opportunities and clear career path.

Role overview

The Assistant Manager  will take day to day responsibility for management of their client and dedicated team, ensuring that client deliverables are delivered both to a high quality and to time. They will be required to work autonomously, solving issues raised by the client and their team, and dealing with conflicting priorities. They will have primary responsibility for ensuring that inputs, outputs and project management are of the highest quality.

The Assistant Manager will be a role model, demonstrating BDO values and providing exceptional client service. They must also be a team player, working effectively with both the management team and the delivery team.

This role would suit a qualified accountant from either practice or industry environment with experience of working with clients from different sectors.

In this role, you will:

• Day to day lead for preparation and review of financial management reporting requirements for clients to a high level of quality and delivered in line with agreed timetables
• Detailed understanding of client to hold meaning full conversations with clients and new businesses
• Overseeing the collective delivery by a local team and overseas BDO offices
• Building strong client relationships, acting as a main contact point for their client, dealing with issues and responding to client requests
• Understands GBS Standard Operating Procedures and actively trains teams and share best practice with colleagues and clients
• Identify opportunities and improvements to processes and systems
• Maintaining technical knowledge including relevant client and accounting frameworks
• Preparation of client contracts, including detailed scope of work. Also identify out-of-scope work
• Demonstrating effective risk management, raising issues alongside proposed solutions with managers when required
  • Identifying and driving forward process improvements within the team
  • Opportunities to get involved in non-client projects

Required:

• Qualified accountant (ACCA, ACA,CIMA)
• Ability to think on your feet
• Excellent communication skills
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially Word and Excel
• Good time management and organisational skills
• Attention to detail and ability to identify and solve issues

Desirable:

• Experience in coaching or mentoring junior staff highly desirable
• Knowledge of accounting software supporting international operations such as SAP Business1, Accounts IQ, Netsuite, etc.
• Experience working with clients with variety of foreign operations

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.

Weknow 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.