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 

The Operations PMO is responsible for maximising BDOs change investment; helping deliver Change in the most effective and efficient way; track, record and report on expectation, help build change delivery capability across the firm; and bring in teams to help the firm deliver.

Our motto is “Do Less, Better – helping BDO deliver the right change initiatives, the right way, faster”

We’ll help you succeed 

The work we do is underpinned by quality. We deliver audits which are trusted and transparent which can be relied upon by companies and their stakeholders.

You’ll be someone who is comfortable working pro-actively and, managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with Senior Managers, Directors, and BDO’s Partners. You’ll help deliver accurate and transparent reporting to all relevant stakeholders as you provide long term value. 

We're looking to recruitment a Project Manager to undertake the following.

Role Purpose:

• Initiate and actively manage a portfolio of projects ranging from small through to medium sized, multi-streamed projects with strategic and/or commercial impact
• With support from the Senior Project Manager/Programme Manager, initiate and actively manage large, multi-streamed projects strategic and/or commercial impact
• Working with key stakeholders to understand inflight and emerging requirements
• The day to day management of projects being the ‘voice of the business’ into them
• Helping plan and design ‘outcome focused’ projects, monitoring progress against agreed parameters, identifying key risks, resolving issues and initiating timely corrective action
• Deliver key activities
• Enabling project Sponsors to focus on setting direction, providing SME input, building advocacy and removing blockers
• Operating within and assist in maturing the Change Minimum Standards

Key Responsibilities:

• Understanding the inflight and upcoming changes in project business requirements(s)
• Day to day management of the project(s)
• Define the project's governance framework (including 'hooking' into portfolio / programme governance)
• Ensuring underlying workstreams are coordinated
• Resolving risks and issues
• Supporting individuals on the project(s)
• Ensuring project integrity and coherence
• Monitoring project(s) budget, monitoring expenditure etc.
• Liaison with design authority / architecture teams / other IT teams / risk / dependent projects and product teams / suppliers
• Ensuring outputs meet requirements within time, quality, cost constraints (and timely escalation of risks if not)
• Ensuring efficiency of resources
• Liaise with 3rd parties / drafting workpackages as required
• Regular reporting to your sponsor and other governance forums
• Effective stakeholder engagement (in liaison with sponsors)
• Working with Business Readiness to prepare and equip the business to absorb change into their operational space
• Actively support assurance activities

You'll be someone with:

• Excellent stakeholder management - Understanding and empathy of stakeholder drivers and goals
• Experience of Project Planning (incl. dependency and capacity management)
• Experience of Project Delivery /Workpackage Oversight
• Experience of Delivery and Governance Frameworks
• Extensive experience of change delivery approaches (e.g. Waterfall, Agile)
• Understanding of Objectives and Key Results (OKR)/Benefits tracking
• Experience of developing and embedding ‘right-sized’ change delivery and governance (aligned to portfolio and programme governance) to suit the project and stakeholder needs
• Service management concepts and frameworks an advantage (e.g. ITIL)
• Organisational governance structures and associated relationships
• Ability to understand the content of current and emerging portfolio of change and how it adds value
• Corporate processes and procedures (e.g. Governance, Finance, HR, minimum standards) and associated language / culture experience
• Experience of Workday HCM, Workday Finance or MSD CMS an advantage
• Experience of a professional services environment an advantage

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to our 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 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 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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