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

To ensure our services and applications are fit for the modern market, our IT team collaborates with every department. They develop, they explore and they implement the new ideas helping us to change the future of accounting, tax and business consulting. But, just as importantly, they maintain the tech that keeps us advancing. By testing and adopting the future of financial technical solutions, they find new and exciting ways to drive us forward. And you could too. In an IT role at BDO, you’ll become part of a team that act as the backbone for our business. No matter who you are or what your skillset is, we’ll give you the training and support you need to achieve whatever you put your mind to.

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.

Technology is one of the fundamental components to how BDO operates and conducts business.  The Business Relationship Management (BRM) team proactively serves as a “trusted advisor and plays a pivotal role in bridging the gap between the Business and IT Department

The BRM should successfully act as a bridge between the IT service function and the customer base to ensure that IT services are understood and adopted, and equally as important that new opportunities and challenges are understood and engaged back into the IT function.

They partner with the customer base to define opportunities and identify and aid prioritisation based on predefined criteria (e.g., return on investment, productivity, compliance).  They translate business needs into strategic roadmaps and proactively advise on technology options and innovation. Then help the IT function to understand the business fit and ensure the IT priorities and work is aligned to business priorities.

The role will also involve working closely with the Head of Innovation & Digital and the Innovation and Digital Product teams who are responsible for helping understand the business problems and offer innovative IT solutions.

In this busy and rewarding role you’ll also:

• Manage relationships between IT and the business units, including the support functions such as HR, Finance, Marketing and Facilities. Maintaining open lines of communication with all parties from both a service delivery as well as BRM perspective.
• Serve as liaison with the IT department for the business unit to help them navigate the IT function.
• Consult with business units and capture and review IT usage, services, technology, digital, and department specific projects in order to identify, forecast and develop IT needs.
• Understand their function(s) at the strategic 3 year level as well as operational level in order to act as the voice of the business on both project and service delivery and maintain and plan to deliver IT services and projects against this plan.
• Help the business unit with budget planning and forecasting for their particular IT requirements.
• Utilise the adoption and business change function to insure the IT solution and service(s) are embedded within the business unit.
• Measure the levels of engagement and relationship strength by reporting and measuring processes which include both operational and client value driven as key KPIs (this could be new or increases revenue or cost or efficiency savings)
• Together with the Innovation and Digital function, help the BRM team manage business unit ideas and new products, including activity on the ideation platform and helping with innovation and new product development within the business unit(s).
• Understand the business needs and pressures and help to educate the rest of the IT function at all levels from IT Board to IT Management team and below.
• Continually research the market place to understand what our competitors are doing in the space of innovation and digital products.
• Become an active participant on the BDO social platforms, becoming one of the known faces of IT and Digital to grow their network across the business
• Maintain a pipeline of technology opportunities, justified with relevant metrics, or changes needed in line with business strategies.
• Work productively and positively with IT and key vendors to ensure the relevant solutions, changes or services are put in place.

You’ll be someone with:

• A track record in influencing change, both in leading proposals for new IT solutions and in positively influencing and changing user behaviour.
• Demonstrable extensive experience in the IT industry with expertise in areas of Business engagement including Project management and Business analysis as well as BRM.
• A broad understanding of the latest developments in technologies, industry specific issues, competitor and vendor activity and initiatives.
• Experience of working in professional services organisation, preferably partnerships.
• Good knowledge of BDO products and services advantageous. This includes IT and Business services.
• A full understanding of business problems and pressures articulating how IT can help.
• The ability to identify and analyse alternative approaches to dealing with issues and problems.
• A successful track and record of account management, customer liaison or relationship management.
• The ability to empower others by collaborating on joint ideas and encourages others to view change as a positive process.
• Ability to influence and persuade others outside his/her direct control.
• The ability to identify and analyse alternative approaches to dealing with issues and problems.
• Confidence in dealing with all levels of the firm, including executive management levels.
• Ownership and responsibility for deliverables/services and is willing to make tough decisions.
• Experienced in managing internal and external/3rd-Party resource partnership models.

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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