Audit Quality

We are BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm that provides advice and solutions for entrepreneurial organisations to navigate today's changing world.

We work with ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high-growth businesses that fuel the economy, directly advising their owners and management teams.

Audit quality is central to our strategy as an Audit Stream. It enables us to attract, develop and retain talented people and be proud of our work. Audit quality allows us to compete in the market and demonstrate our ability to play a key role in market reform.

Consistent high audit quality does not happen by chance. It requires a mindset and culture of challenge and professional scepticism, appropriate resources, investment in central support for engagement teams and technology solutions. Within the last year, we have increased our headcount significantly, invested in new partners, and commenced a significant investment programme in our central quality support team.

The work we do is underpinned by quality. We deliver audits that are trusted and transparent, which can be relied upon by companies and their stakeholders.

You will be someone who is 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. You will help deliver accurate and transparent reporting to all relevant stakeholders as you provide long-term value.

This is an opportunity for a talented, high-performing and ambitious Senior Manager to join the methodology team in the Audit Quality Department (AQD) in an exciting period and help shape the role and the expanding team. You will report into and work closely with the Methodology Directors.

• Managing and supporting the delivery of key Audit Methodology Projects, including guidance, support, proposed changes to the audit tool and training.
• General Methodology projects, including writing and updating technical guidance and policies.
• Responding to audit methodology queries from audit staff at all levels.
• Development and delivery of audit methodology training content relevant to key methodology projects.
• Representative for sectors, including responding to sector-specific queries, sector training and support with developing sector-specific content.
• Responsibility for selected aspects of team management/development.

The successful candidate will have responsibilities for forward-looking and pre-emptive consideration of upcoming developments and business needs identified in relation to audit methodology. They will have responsibilities for working on specific projects intended to result in new or enhanced guidance, training and other materials for dissemination to the audit stream.

You will be someone with:

• Proven audit experience.
• The ability to communicate with partners and staff at all levels.
• ACA or similar professional accountancy qualification.
• Considered themselves an expert with regards to the UK auditing standards.

You will be able to be yourself; we will recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to our business. We are committed to agile working, and we offer everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we will 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 are proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we will 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 will 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 and satisfying experiences at work, so we have invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO's people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we will 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 will never stop learning at BDO.

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we are 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 have a clear purpose, and we are confident in our future, because we are 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.