Professional Qualifications Senior 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 Senior Manager to join our growing team in Baker Street. In this busy and rewarding role you’ll also:

• Maintain the firm’s duty of care to our people whilst enforcing the firm’s professional qualifications policies.
• Assist in the development and delivery of internal training and induction for EIC students.
• Represent the firm on various external groups.
• Work with HR and the business to develop our programme of on-going care, coaching and advice to our early in career (EIC) students.
• Ensure that bonus and promotions data is provided to HR in a timely manner.
• Proactively liaise with HR and Finance on apprentices. 
• Liaise with the external bodies including the ICAEW and CIOT.
• Work with the Shared Service Centre (SSC) to ensure a seamless service is delivered to trainees and the business.
• Assist in the design and development of apprenticeship programmes that are relevant, engaging and delivering for our EIC students.
• Develop procedures and processes to drive efficiencies in the work of the team.
• Develop systems and processes to increase operational efficiency including the use of Workday.
• Advise on exam results and recommendations in respect of those who have failed. Work closely with colleagues in the HR team to provide support to the Partners and the students.
• Liaise with external training providers on courses and syllabus developments.
• Help to assess the impact of all syllabus changes on the firm’s professional qualifications strategy and support the communication of the impact to our partners and staff.
• Manage and develop the professional qualifications team including the performance management of two direct reports.
• Help ensure that the firm’s professional qualifications policies are driven by business needs and sound commercial principles and working with the business to support as appropriate. 
• Act as Deputy QPRT including signing training contracts and new counsellor forms.

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 with colleagues and external bodies.
• 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 Investigate the impact of potential changes in the current market on the firm’s professional qualifications strategies. Adopts and drives a continuous improvement approach to working practices
• The ability to work independently; has initiative and is self-motivated.
• Proven team management experience
• Knowledge of professional qualifications such as ACA, CTA, ACCA and CIMA is desirable.
• Experience of Workday desirable.
• Direct relevant work experience is preferred including professional examinations training or experience in a large professional services firm

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.

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