Financial Reporting Assistant 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 that lead them.

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.

Leading organisations 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 them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

Step into the role of Assistant Manager, where you'll manage a portfolio of clients and support senior team members in delivering services promptly. Your portfolio will include reviewing year-end statutory accounts compliance and liaising with audit teams, both BDO and non-BDO, alongside handling ad-hoc advisory requests.

You'll assess resource needs, monitor progress against budgets and timelines, review junior staff work, and resolve issues before Manager or Partner review. You'll work independently, ensuring project delivery and acting as the first point of contact for clients and auditors.

With strong accounting skills and business acumen, you'll analyse client data, make recommendations, and discuss issues credibly. You'll also play a key role in team development, promoting BDO values and providing performance feedback.

You’ll be someone with:

• A professional accountancy qualification such as ACA, ACCA or equivalent
• An excellent working knowledge of FRS
  102 and IFRS
• Experience as a trainee or senior role, including delivering statutory accounts preparation or accounting services to ambitious entrepreneurial businesses
• A proven ability to research technical accounting matters
• Demonstratable working knowledge of financial products, firm services, issues regarding advice and regulation and compliance, including anti-money laundering

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.

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.

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