Associate Director – Business Services & Outsourcing

ACCA Careers; Manchester; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy and business advisory firm is seeking an Associate Director in Business Services & Outsourcing in Manchester. The role involves managing client relationships, delivering outsourcing solutions, and ensuring quality service delivery. Ideal candidates will be qualified accountants with strong problem-solving and communication skills, ready to contribute to a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACA) or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrable experience delivering outsourcing services.
• Strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate delivery of outsourcing work in the north outsourcing team.
• Manage client expectations and drive growth of the outsourcing portfolio.
• Ensure quality client work and compliance with risk management.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Client management

Education

Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACA)

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerBI

Job description

Associate Director – Business Services & Outsourcing

Associate Director – Business Services & Outsourcing

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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.

BDO UK

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.

Our clients are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

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.

We’ll help you succeed

Our clients 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 clients and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who can work pro-actively, managing your own tasks, but you’ll also be confident collaborating with others, communicating regularly with senior managers, Directors, and BDO’s Partners to enable us to serve our clients effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to our clients.

Overview

In this busy and rewarding role you'll also coordinate the delivery of outsourcing work in the north outsourcing team, focused primarily on scale-up and growth businesses. This includes ensuring delivery of quality client work, managing client expectations and helping to drive growth and commercial management of the outsourcing portfolio. This role will allow you to drive alignments with the national outsourcing agenda to ensure the team are meeting the required service levels, complying with risk management requirements and aligning their work to the processes and procedures elsewhere in the firm.

You’ll Be Someone With

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACA) or equivalent experience
• Demonstrable experience of delivering outsourcing service to clients
• Solid accountancy experience required
• Strong communication skills
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Office especially Excel and ideally PowerBI
  
  

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 everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task in 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.

We’re in it together

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.

We can provide the best support for our clients and people when we’re working side by side. 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’ll 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 for our clients and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll 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’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

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

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in them. Across 17 UK locations, we are 6,500 unique minds coming together to help our clients reach their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re 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.

For further information, and to apply, please visit our website via the “Apply” button below.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Sales

• Industries

  Accounting

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