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

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 are looking for an experienced senior project manager to initiate and actively manage projects with significant strategic and/or commercial impact

Role Purpose:

• Initiates and actively manages a portfolio of projects ranging in sizes, and including multi-streamed projects with significant strategic and/or commercial impact
• Initiate and actively manage large, multi-streamed projects with significant strategic and/or commercial impact
• Working with key stakeholders to understand inflight and emerging requirements
• The day to day management of key 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)
• Being the voice of business into the project(s)
• Plan and design ‘outcome focused’ projects, monitoring progress against agreed parameters, identifying key risks, resolving issues and initiating timely corrective action
• 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.
• Help appoint additional staff into the project and underlying workstreams / activities
• 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
• Identifying and initiating additional activities wherever gaps exist
• Regular reporting to your sponsor and other governance forums
• Effective stakeholder engagement (in liaison with sponsors)
• Effective handover to business operations
• Champion Change Minimum Standards
• Actively support assurance activities

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.

You’ll be someone with:

Key Competencies:

• Guide and supervise less experienced colleagues / stakeholders
• Support, train, mentor and advise others in Operations PMO
• Challenge current practices – driving improvements and championing change
• Take personal responsibility for own decision and actions and those of others
• Project Planning (incl. dependency and capacity management)
• Project Delivery /Workpackage Oversight
• Stakeholder Engagement (incl. presentation skills)
• Communications
• Risk Management
• Delivery and Governance Frameworks

We’re looking for someone with:  

Key Knowledge:

• Extensive experience of change delivery approaches (e.g. Waterfall, Agile)
• OKR/Benefits tracking
• 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
• Understanding the content of current and emerging portfolio of change and how it adds value
• Understanding the corporate vision and strategy and the wider industry
• Corporate processes and procedures (e.g. Governance, Finance, HR, minimum standards) and associated language / culture
• Identifying and monitoring and developing appropriate remedial plans for key project performance (KPIs) and risk (KRIs) metrics.
• Experience of Workday HCM, Workday Finance or MSD CMS an advantage
• Experience of a professional services environment an advantage

Key Skills:

• Balance competing needs and interests
• Building consensus
• Coaching & Mentoring (asking powerful questions)
• Collaboration
• Communication and Presentation
• Consult
• Data assimilation
• Exercising Professional Judgement
• Influencing others
• Facilitation
• Manage Conflict
• Objective Setting (and providing feedback)
• Problem Solving / Creative Thinking
• Prioritisation
• Systems Thinking
• Time Management

Key Behaviours:

• Attention to detail, pragmatic – keep bigger picture in  mind
• Take ownership and keep stakeholders up to date on progress / task completion
• Act with discretion and integrity ensuring an appropriate level of confidentiality
• Proactively use own initiative to achieve timely successful outcomes
• Be tenacious / act assertively as appropriate
• Be resilient and maintain a positive attitude
• Challenge confidently in a professional manner
• Be curious, look beyond the obvious recognising non-verbal behaviours
• Constructively Provide candid feedback and recommendations
• Remain objective and be open to challenge
• Be a team player being a role model of corporate values
• Be open and honest building credible trusted relationships
• Continue to develop your knowledge and skills

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.