Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Working with every department at BDO, our Finance team helps us meet relevant legal requirements that ensure our firm operates effectively in a tightly-regulated field. They implement strategies that help us innovate – like combining new technology with traditional financial processes to make us even more digital. As part of this friendly team, you’ll enjoy flexible hours and have opportunities to take responsibility for the delivery of quality work. With your colleagues behind you, you’ll embrace change, new ideas and have an impact on the future of our firm.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations 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 them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

In this role your primary objective will be to assist with the management of the department’s Finance Transformation programme and develop solutions using the tools available to you, by;

• Working with the Finance Transformation Senior Manager to establish a short, medium and long-term change programme for Finance,
• Ensuring project ideas are triaged,
• The best ideas are evaluated using the Project Prioritisation Matrix,
• Using your knowledge of Finance and best practice to support the PMO to allocate resource to the most worthy projects, and ensure projects achieve the benefits outlined during planning.

You will:

• Work closely with key Finance contacts across the business to ensure they are regularly updated on the progress of projects, how these projects will impact underlying Finance processes and the benefits they are likely to see.
• Identify process weaknesses or errors (within remit of projects and when consulted on an ad hoc basis as a transactional and Finance Operations SME) and highlight these to Senior Management together with proposed solutions.
• Develop and implement a continuous improvement roadmap ensuring Finance are always operating efficiently and serving our customers better.
• Have the ability to operate both autonomously and with project teams.
• Develop technical solutions using the automation software tools available but not limited to; Alteryx and Power Automate.

You’ll be someone with:

• Strong mathematical skillset.
• Able to understand and explain complex finance processes and accounting treatments.
• The ability to pay attention to detail and develop new and pragmatic procedures/action plans when required.
• Experience using the following software tools is advantageous:Alteryx, Power BI, Power Automate, Excel (advanced skill)
• Strong networking, stakeholder relationship building and project management skills
• Proven experience within multiple operational finance roles
• Proven experience of maintaining strong control environments and can demonstrate a clear understanding of all aspects of a fully functioning finance operations function including risk areas and process improvement possibilities.
• Experience working within a high-pressure environment, managing multiple competing deliverables within a large and complex multi-national organisation.
• A relevant project management qualification (e.g. Prince2) is advantageous
• Significant involvement in large scale finance transformation projects is advantageous

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 every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at 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.

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