Ideas | People | Trust 

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate today’s changing world.  

Our clients are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and highgrowth businesses that fuel the economy - and the owners and management teams that lead them.  

We’ll broaden your horizons  

The Business Services and Outsourcing team are essential to meeting our clients' evolving requirements. As well as delivering long-term, sustainable value to businesses by providing a range of solutions such as accounting, payroll and compliance services, they also play a key role in tying together many of our services across BDO both domestically and internationally. By building deep and meaningful relationships with a range of clients from ambitious entrepreneurial SMEs to large multi-national groups, our BS&O team don’t just advise on their specific business challenges, they open doors for other teams to provide our firm’s wider service offering. To succeed in this agile environment, you’ll need to demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills and initiative. In return, you’ll have the opportunity for progression, and the chance to develop in one of the industry’s most exciting and varied roles.   

We’ll help you succeed  

Our clients 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 clients and building long-lasting relationships. 

You’ll be someone who can work pro-actively, managing your own tasks, but you’ll also be confident collaborating with others, communicating regularly with senior managers, Directors, and BDO’s Partners to enable us to serve our clients effectively.  You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to our clients. 

Overview

Join us in a role that’s anything but ordinary! As a key player in our team, you’ll be at the heart of driving business activities forward. You’ll take charge of commercial development, team liaison, onboarding, and project management, ensuring everything runs smoothly and efficiently. Working closely with our management team, you’ll make sure staffing for client work is spot on, using our Dayshape booking system to keep everything on track.

Your knack for managing projects from start to finish will shine as you bring them to life. You’ll be the vital link between management and SRS staff, ensuring our internal procedures are followed to the letter. Your role is all about connecting the dots and bringing a standardised process to our national service, making a real impact every day. If you’re ready to take on a role that’s dynamic and rewarding, we’d love to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Using our resource planner, Dayshape, to book secondments.Working closely with the Management Team to find resource and utilise this within the service from other areas of the business.Working with the Management Team to closely monitor metrics such as utilisation, staff availability and other KPIs.Challenging requests that are not following the standardised process.Identify and introduce processes to maximise efficiencies across the team. Streamline the onboarding process for all secondments including after care was the project is established.Proactively review the current workload and identify areas of capacity within the team

Requirements 

Experience working in a resource management role, ideally in the professional services industryIT literate with a high competence in MS Office (especially Excel, Word)Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, and the ability to communicate with a number of key senior, partner stakeholdersExcellent interpersonal skills in order to build strong relationships with the teamAbility to work to deadlines, and to respond quicklyAccuracy and attention to detail essential Must be flexible and adaptable Strong team worker Strong problem-solving skills Ability to plan and organise work well, and ability to prioritise Enthusiastic / self-motivated / self-confident 

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 them. Across 17 UK locations, we are 6,500 unique minds coming together to help our clients reach 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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