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

As part of our Audit team, you'll receive the support you need to reach your potential. From completing professional qualifications to developing new skills and exploring different learning opportunities, you’ll join a friendly and diverse team whose work really matters. Use your skills to build a career in Audit at BDO.

As a firm our focus on delivering quality audit work for the benefit of the public interest is our key priority. Our Audit teams are essential, not just to BDO, but to the whole economy. With specialist knowledge of sectors, markets and geographies; our auditors have the business understanding necessary to deliver the high quality and robust audits that companies and their stakeholders can trust.

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 proactively and managing your own tasks. You’ll have excellent collaboration and communication skills that allow you to work effectively with others, both internally and externally, with the audited entity management, as well as 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.

This is an exciting opportunity to drive a key programme supporting the delivery of our larger, more complex and multiple component audits. We are looking for a project manager who is passionate about project management, can drive a culture of change and accountability, and can actively manage large complex audits with strategic and/or commercial impact.

In this role you’ll:

• Be responsible for overseeing and project managing designated key audits.
• Co-ordinate projects and liaise with other team members to ensure that relevant parties are engaged with during the project.
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills. Be responsible for managing inboxes & calendars to drive organisation and structure.
• Work with the appropriate stakeholders to establish and monitor engagement strategies, milestones, key deliverables, management information, and board reports.
• Monitor progress against agreed parameters and associated project plans, identify key risks, resolve issues, and initiate timely corrective action.
• Provide both internal and external parties with regular progress /status reports.
• Exhibit great multitasking abilities and outstanding organisational skills. You should also be at ease collaborating with teams from all business disciplines and levels.
• Exhibit strong multitasking abilities and organisational skills. Be at ease with collaborating with teams from various business disciplines and levels.
• Help partners and teams reduce their workloads while also enhancing morale and increasing productivity and by bringing people together and creating strong rapport.
• Create a culture of trust inside projects so that colleagues and entities being audited may discuss their needs and challenges.
• Display outstanding stakeholder management abilities during audits, both internally and externally.
• Gather data and identify trends and potential new opportunities.
• Utilise more effective processes and systems to create coherent audits that satisfy the needs and requirements of our audited entities.
• Drive a culture of accountability.
• Actively seek input from all parties and conducts evaluations with BDO leadership.
• Assist in driving results by supporting our audit teams' commercial management and KPI tracking.