Transaction Services Senior Manager

Our Purpose

We are a leading accountancy and business advisory firm, providing advice and solutions for entrepreneurial organisations to navigate today's changing world.

At BDO, we work with ambitious, high-growth businesses that fuel the economy, directly advising owners and management teams who lead them.

Key Responsibilities:

• Project manage larger client engagements, determining scope and resourcing requirements, monitoring progress against budget and timeframe, reviewing junior team members' work, and resolving project issues prior to partner review.

• Scope, prepare, and review reports and documents using PowerPoint, and prepare analysis in Excel.

• Contribute to the management of the project team on a day-to-day basis, briefing, supervising, and developing junior staff.

• Deliver complete reports with focused conclusions and recommendations.

• Assist partners, directors, and associate directors in developing existing and new service stream practices.

• Contribute to the successful development of sustainable client relationships, liaising with clients on risk management, progress, and monitoring information flows, and taking responsibility for delivering answers to clients.

• Promote knowledge sharing within the team and across the firm with different departments.

• Capture, address, and effectively communicate client feedback to the project manager or director.

• Identify and recognise new project and business opportunities, informing the project director or partner as appropriate.

• Support the conversion of opportunities into chargeable work, including pitch participation.

• Act as an ambassador for the firm, participating in marketing events and keeping abreast of services offered.

• Support recruitment, retention, motivation, and learning and development of the Transaction Services team, acting as a role model to more junior staff.

• Seek and take action on feedback, delivering honest and timely feedback to colleagues.

Requirements

• Thorough working knowledge of Transaction Services activities.

• ACA/ACCA qualified or relevant work experience.

• Previous staff supervision or management experience.

• Excellent knowledge of MS Office, particularly Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.

• Self-starting individual comfortable working independently and as part of a team.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Demonstrates a pro-active approach to continuous development.

At BDO, you'll be able to be yourself, and we'll recognise and value you for who you are. We're committed to agile working, offering every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task at hand. We have programmes, resources, and frameworks providing clarity and structure around career development.

Our people-centred culture is built on mutual support and respect. 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. Collaboration is key to creating value for our clients and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we've invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you'll never stop learning at BDO.