Audit Cluster Senior Resource Manager

BDO UK LLP; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO UK LLP is seeking a Cluster Senior Resource Manager to lead resourcing across multiple business units, shaping workforce strategy and capacity planning. You will collaborate with senior leadership to optimise resource deployment and performance while ensuring high-quality delivery for clients.

The role requires proven resource management experience, strong communication, and a commercial, data-driven mindset.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in resource management.
• Strong communication skills, with the confidence to deliver key messages to a range of stakeholders.
• Commercial approach - focusing on the key needs of the stream to ensure right size and shape to deliver high quality work.
• An inquisitive mindset, keeping up to date with industry changes and adapting to changes in technology.
• Ability to build and articulate a story from underlying data.
• Experience working in a professional services environment.
• An understanding of the financial audit process.
• Knowledge of Dayshape or a similar resourcing solution.

Responsibilities

• The Cluster Senior Resource Manager is responsible for the strategic leadership, performance and continuous improvement of the resourcing function across a portfolio of business units within the cluster.
• The role ensures a consistent, effective and commercially focused approach to workforce planning, resource deployment, capacity management and talent utilisation.
• Acting as a trusted adviser to the Cluster Resourcing Partner and the Audit Resourcing Directorate, the role translates business priorities into workforce strategies that optimise capacity, improve performance and support sustainable growth.
• 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.

Skills

Resource management

Communication

Commercial mindset

Curiosity

Data storytelling

Professional services

Audit process

Dayshape

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.

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

Our biggest asset is our people, so our Audit Resourcing Directorate are focused on ensuring we have the right people working together to deliver the best results, whilst providing space for us all to deliver quality work and reach our potential.

They use their specialist expertise to ensure we enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm. By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions.

We’ll help you succeed

The Cluster Senior Resource Manager is responsible for the strategic leadership, performance and continuous improvement of the resourcing function across a portfolio of business units within the cluster.

The role ensures a consistent, effective and commercially focused approach to workforce planning, resource deployment, capacity management and talent utilisation. Working through Senior Resource & Resource Managers and resourcing teams, the Cluster Senior Resource Manager drives capability, governance and performance, ensuring resourcing supports business objectives and delivers an exceptional stakeholder experience.

Acting as a trusted adviser to the Cluster Resourcing Partner and the Audit Resourcing Directorate, the role translates business priorities into workforce strategies that optimise capacity, improve performance and support sustainable growth.

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.

You’ll be someone with:

• Proven experience in resource management
• Strong communication skills, with the confidence to deliver key messages to a range of stakeholders
• Commercial approach - being able to focus on the key needs of the stream to ensure we have the right size & shape to deliver the high quality work expected
• An inquisitive mindset, keeping up to date with industry changes and adapting to changes in technology.
• Ability to build and articulate a story from underlying data
• Experience working in a professional services environment
• An understanding of the financial audit process
• Knowledge of Dayshape or a similar resourcing solution

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.

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.

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 the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, 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 you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve 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.