Financial Reporting Senior Business Adviser

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 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

Overview

• Your opportunity to join a fast growing team in a vibrant and modern office environment, working on a variety of compliance projects with scope for involvement in advisory work whilst helping to drive the development of the team.
• We work on a large variety of clients largely within the SME space. We produce financial statements under FRS 102 and IFRS.
• As a Senior Business Adviser you will take the lead on more complex projects as well as supporting the manager team with reviewing statutory accounting projects. As part of this you will be expected to liaise with client, audit, tax and other teams as may be applicable. You will also be expected to contribute to business development activity including supporting managers with preparing pricing for new opportunities, meeting potential clients and collaborating on the day-to-day management of the pipeline of opportunities.
• In addition to client facing work you will also work to provide support to the management team on departmental issues including coaching and feedback to more junior members of staff, ensuring compliance with the stream’s policies and procedures and the firm’s risk management procedures.

Responsibilities

Servicing clients

• Prepares statutory financial statements and review of disclosures under FRS 102 and IFRS for manager and partner review. This will include consolidated financial statements.
• Manage a small portfolio of clients and be the day to day contact for the client.
• Conduct rigorous project management and financial management on all projects, completing projects within agreed timescales and raising issues with the manager or client, as appropriate, in a timely manner.
• Identifying potential technical queries and challenges and offer potential solutions to discuss with managers/technical departments.
• Ensure that the firm’s risk management and quality control procedures are adhered to at all times.
• Liaison with central departments on risk management, technical and other matters.

Non-specific project responsibilities may also include:

Business Development

• Contribute to the preparation of fee quotes for new work, bid documents and bid presentations.
• Identify and recognise business and sales opportunities with new clients, and inform the management team as appropriate.
• Support the management team with the implementation and communication of any new business strategy for existing clients, target clients and the internal business.

Training and Development

• Assist in the development and delivery of training of the team
• Act as a role model for the team.

Requirements

• Qualified ACA, ACCA, CA or equivalent.
• Excellent working knowledge of FRS 102 and related financial reporting requirements as well as previous experience preparing statutory accounts.
• Evidence of ability to research technical accounting matters.
• Ability to prioritise and plan effectively, adopting a logical and methodical approach in order to meet tight deadlines.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft packages including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Key skills: Confident communicator, team player and able to research and resolve technical challenges.

Desirable

• Experience in preparing consolidated financial statements;
• Experience in preparing financial statements under IFRS;
• Experience in role of a project manager;
• Working knowledge of financial statements preparation software Caseware.
• Business development experience - able to contribute to the identification and conversion of opportunities to sell work.

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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