Associate Director - Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

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

Job summary

BDO is seeking a lead FP&A professional to drive growth plans, coordinate market rollout, and deliver high-quality FP&A services across the business. You will identify opportunities in scale-up and growth companies, build strong stakeholder relationships, and manage portfolio economics with a commercial mindset.

The role emphasizes collaboration, problem solving, and bringing insightful financial leadership to clients while supporting firm's growth objectives.

Qualifications

• A professional accountancy qualification (ACCA/ACA) or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrable experience of delivering FP&A services.
• Business development experience.
• Experience of building relationships with key stakeholders.
• Problem solving and commercial management skills.
• Experience with a variety of FP&A tools as well as strong Excel and Power BI skills.
• Experience of working collaboratively in a team to deliver projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead growth plan execution for FP&A across the business.
• Coordinate rollout of FP&A proposition to market and delivery across teams.
• Focus on scale-up and growth businesses, securing new opportunities.
• Ensure quality client work, manage expectations, and oversee portfolio economics.

Skills

ACCA/ACA qualification

FP&A services experience

Business development

Stakeholder relationship management

Problem solving & commercial acumen

FP&A tools proficiency

Excel & Power BI skills

Team collaboration

Tools

Excel

Power BI

Job description

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.

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.

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 dynamic role, you'll take a lead role in executing our growth plan for FP&A, coordinating both rolling out our proposition to market and in the delivery of FP&A work across our business, focusing on scale‑up and growth businesses. You'll be seeking and converting new business opportunities as well as ensuring quality client work, managing client expectations, and ensuring the commercial management of a portfolio.

You’ll Be Someone With

• A professional accountancy qualification (ACCA/ACA) or equivalent experience
• Demonstrable experience of delivering FP&A services
• Business development experience
• Experience of building relationships with key stakeholders
• Problem solving and commercial management skills
• Experience with a variety of FP&A tools as well as strong Excel and Power BI skills
• Experience of working collaboratively in a team to deliver projects

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 instate-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 arrange 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 the UK thousands of 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.