Professional Qualifications Manager (12 month FTC)

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 leading them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our greatest asset is our people, so our HR team focus on ensuring we are all reaching our potential. They use their specialist expertise to help us attract great talent, enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm. By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions.

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.

The Professional Qualifications Team (PQT) have a distinct role dealing with the administration and management of all professional qualifications. The ICAEW’s ACA qualification and the exams of the tax professional bodies are the routes most commonly followed by our people. We are looking for a Manager to join our growing team in Baker Street on a 12 month secondment. In this busy and rewarding role you’ll also:

• Manage the review of the content of the firmwide day one induction.
• Lead on reviewing the reward process for trainee promotions working with Reward and the Streams.
• Develop systems and processes to increase operational efficiency including the use of Workday.
• Work with HR and the Streams to develop our programme of on-going care, coaching and advice to our early in career (EIC) students.
• Work with the SSC to map process flows and put controls in place to ensure accuracy of data.
• Lead on the documentation and testing of processes within PQ relating to ISQM1.
• Manage the annual process of reviewing training agreements working with Employee Relations and our external legal advisors.
• Lead on various projects across all Streams including reviewing our Industrial Placement offering.
• Develop procedures and processes to drive efficiencies in the work of the team.

You'll be someone with:

• Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
• First class organisational skills
• The ability to gain confidence of partners and peers and build strong relationships.
• The ability to challenge the status quo, as appropriate, and drive the use of best practice to deliver improvement and development in the firm’s systems. The ability to develop innovative solutions and problem solve.
• The ability to work independently; has initiative and is self-motivated.
• Knowledge of professional qualifications such as ACA, CTA, ACCA and CIMA is desirable.
• Experience of Workday desirable.

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 and satisfying experiences at work, 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.