Audit Stream Learning & Development – Business Partnering Senior Manager

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.

Learning and Development (L&D) is a key enabler of our strategy as an Audit Stream and critical to our success. It supports our ability to attract, develop and retain talented people who take pride in their work and successfully deliver for our business. Effective L&D underpins quality and productivity by supporting our people to develop the necessary knowledge and skills to perform their work, helping them reach their personal and professional potential.

Effective L&D does not happen by chance. It requires specialist resources who partner with the Audit Stream to identify training needs and appropriately respond to them. Careful planning and project management are necessary, as are a critical‑thinking and commercial mindset, and an understanding of regulatory requirements. Effective L&D needs consideration of the latest innovation, tools and technology to lead the development of personal and professional learning that is tailored, relevant and timely for our people.

The BP team works with the Audit Stream to identify learning needs and develop an appropriate response to these needs, drives the L&D agenda and coordinates with the business on various people‑related activities. It also supports the analysis of learning data / evaluation of our programmes. Acting as the business voice within L&D, the team provides oversight and challenge internally as the wider L&D team works to develop and implement solutions that met the needs scoped.

Similar, the team is the face of L&D in the Stream providing useful guidance and insight as the business explores how to best support our people’s ongoing learning and development.

The Business Partnering Senior Manager will work directly with stakeholders in the business to identify specific needs applicable to their areas of responsibility; these are expected to include our Audit Connect programme, the main component of our Post-qualified curriculum.

Using their understanding of business priorities, developed through active engagement with the Stream, they will join up activities across our L&D offering and wider centralised programmes, ensuring our response to the Stream is aligned and meets ongoing needs. They will coordinate with other stakeholder groups as needed and work collaboratively with the other BP team members to ensure that the learning needs analysis is coordinated and complete, and to share best practice.

As a member of the BP team, they work with the Learning Development team to ensure that the business objectives for any particular learning need are understood and translated into key learning objectives and oversee that design learning interventions meet these needs effectively. They will support the Learning Implementation team as needed to ensure that developed content in implemented as planned and work with the Monitoring, Reporting & Compliance team to ensure appropriate review of learning effectiveness is performed.

It is also expected that the BP team will support programme delivery through onsite programme management and facilitation where appropriate.

Supports the scoping, development, implementation and evaluation of learning, ensuring this directly addresses business needs and provides relevant, timely and tailored learning

Advocate and supports business needs within L&D ensuring responses are focused on business objectives and support achievement of wider organisational goals whilst remaining commercially productive and effective

Act as a subject matter expert on all aspects of L&D, able to advise and consult with business leaders to help them find lasting solutions to issues as they arise

Responsible for reporting back to the business on progress against agreed plans

Provide objective challenge to the…