BR Manager

BR Advisory Manager – London

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.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our Advisory team provide a wide variety of services that deliver value-led advice and outcomes. They have an in-depth knowledge of business, industry sectors and markets and understand the constantly changing risks and opportunities at the heart of our client's affairs. The teamwork across strategy, operations and improvement as well as at a transactional and defined project level. From technology to risk advisory, they’re experts in following through on top-level instructions and resolving the finer details – all in one straight-forward package. When you join them, you’ll work on some of the world's most exciting financial operations and business deals, building your experience and expertise alongside the brightest minds in the industry.

We’ll help you succeed

You’ll be a BR Advisory Manager proactively managing smaller projects or distinct elements of larger projects, with limited input from senior colleagues, as well as being responsible for guiding junior team members.

Alongside this you’ll continue to develop your existing relevant technical and accountancy knowledge through on-the-job experience and a variety of training opportunities. In addition, there is a range of opportunities to become involved in business development initiatives.

This role is responsible to a designated senior manager, director or partner on specific cases and ultimately to a dedicated counselling manager. You’ll also;

ADVISORY STREAM

The role requires strong financial analysis skills with the successful candidate able to identify and investigate key issues in a restructuring scenario, challenging information provided where appropriate. Excellent excel skills and an ability to undertake accurate and relevant analysis and interrogate financial models are essential.

The successful candidate will be responsible for preparing to draft Independent Business Reviews and other written output for review and therefore the ability to produce high-quality documents/ presentations that are capable of meeting stakeholder expectations is also required.

In addition, the successful candidate will be able to quickly build up a strong rapport with management is often difficult and highly pressured circumstances.

The role will provide an opportunity to work with an experienced partner-led team with exposure to a wide range of assignments and industries.

• Assume day to day responsibility for smaller projects or distinct elements of larger projects across all stages
• Support senior members of the team to deliver on a range of assignments, as well as guide junior colleagues
• Review, compile and analyse company information
• Undertake financial analysis and prepare financial models
• Maintain a thorough understanding of statutory and compliance processes and deadlines
• Strong awareness of relevant risk issues and mitigants
• Highlight potential problems to senior staff quickly (with supporting information)

When you join us, we’ll make your growth our priority. If you can demonstrate the following skills, we can help you go far. We’re looking for someone with:

• Hold a relevant professional qualification (ICAEW/ ACCA), with an appropriate amount of experience
• An insolvency qualification is desirable, but not essential
• Up to date understanding of regulatory and statutory requirements
• Strong working knowledge of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and IPS
• Excellent written and numerical skills
• Good organisational skills to manage your time and ensure no tasks are overlooked
• Have a willingness to learn new things and thrive on new challenges
• Self-motivated and enthusiastic team player

We’re in it together

At BDO, we believe that when our people feel valued and rewarded, their potential is unlimited. We offer highly competitive starting salaries and review remuneration packages regularly to ensure that our pay always positively reflects performance. As well as offering support with tuition and professional qualifications, we also provide the following benefits, as standard:

• 28 days’ holiday;
• Private medical insurance;
• 6% cash benefits allowance
• access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions;
• life assurance cover;
• and income protection insurance

That’s not all. We understand that everyone is different so, we offer a range of voluntary benefits to suit every lifestyle. Our flexible benefits platform, Flexcel, means our people can choose from a range of tax-efficient options to design a benefit package that best suits them. Through Flexcel, they can:

• buy up to ten days’ extra holiday;
• add on private medical, personal accident, dental insurance, or travel insurance;
• enrol in our Bike to Work scheme;
• enjoy discounts off cinemas, dining, and gyms;
• receive an interest free season ticket loan or interest-free graduate loan;
• access childcare vouchers;
• take an online health assessment and utilise our employee assistance programme

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we’re big enough to make the difference and collaborative enough to never lose sight of where we’re going. We know that it’s our people that make our success possible. Across our 17 UK locations, more than 6,000 of them work together to provide tax, audit, assurance, and a range of advisory services that help our clients achieve their ambitious goals. Together, they’re fuelling Britain’s economic engine. Behind every complex client challenge and every untapped innovation, they’re there: ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity, and expertise. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to invest in our people. That means providing them with an environment where they can grow, learn, laugh and feel respected, at all times.

Our Agency Policy

BDO has a commitment to building relationships directly with candidates (and agencies) in our local markets and as such, we do not accept speculative CVs from agencies. We work closely with our preferred suppliers to support us in sourcing quality candidates but we only pay agency fees where we have a signed agreement in place and an agency has been instructed by a member of the BDO Resourcing team. We do not pay agency fees where speculative and unsolicited CVs are submitted to BDO by any means other than through our recruitment portal. For any CVs which are submitted without instruction from the BDO Resourcing team, BDO reserves the right to contact and work directly with these candidates without payment of any agency fee.