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

Operations PMO is a vital department. As well as supporting senior management in strategy, operations and decision making in the UK, this highly-experienced team make a big impact on significant projects and processes across our international network. A role in this team comes with a lot of responsibility and variety too. Whether you’re helping senior management implement key decisions and strategies effectively or delivering on your own projects, being part of this department means you’ll get plenty of exposure and experience. Could you make a real impact on our firm locally, nationally and internationally?  

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.

We are looking for an experienced senior project manager to initiate and actively manage projects with significant strategic and/or commercial impact. You will work with the people and culture executive and broader sponsors to deliver the people and culture priorities.  You may also be required to support other projects or workstreams within the firmwide programmes as they evolve.

The key purpose of the role is to manage the people and culture projects within the people and culture programme.  You will develop a project approach and plan including; interdependencies, the programme plan, costs, and risks and issue tracking and resolution for each respective project. You will oversee project manager/s within the programme, and work to maintain interdependencies and support the overall programme management.

In this busy and rewarding role you'll also:

• Understand the inflight and upcoming changes in project business requirements(s)
• Day to day manage multiple projects under or independently of a programme or portfolio
• Be 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)
• Ensure underlying workstreams are coordinated
• Resolve risks and issues
• Support individuals on the project(s)
• Ensure project integrity and coherence
• Monitor project(s) budget, monitoring expenditure etc.
• Help appoint additional staff into the project and underlying workstreams / activities
• Liaise with design authority / architecture teams / other IT teams / risk / dependent projects and product teams / suppliers
• Ensure outputs meet requirements within time, quality, cost constraints (and timely escalation of risks if not)
• Ensure efficiency of resources
• Liaise with 3rd parties / drafting workpackages as required
• Identify and initiate 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

You'll be someone with:

• Extensive project and or programme delivery experience
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Extensive experience of change delivery approaches (e.g. Waterfall, Agile)
• OKR/Benefits tracking
• Organisational governance structures and associated relationships
• An understanding of the content of current and emerging portfolio of change and how it adds value
• An understanding the corporate vision and strategy and the wider industry
• Corporate processes and procedures experience (e.g. Governance, Finance, HR, minimum standards) and associated language / culture
• Experience of HR, ESG, Social Impact or related projects highly desirable
• Experience of a professional services environment or corporate 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 the 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 in 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. We can provide the best support for our clients and people when we’re working side by side.  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 our clients 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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