Audit Learning & Development – Learning & Development Experienced Manager / Senior Manager (Dev[...]

TieTalent; Bristol; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy and business advisory firm is seeking an Experienced Manager/Senior Manager for their Learning & Development team. This role involves developing innovative content, coaching team members, and ensuring effective programme delivery in a supportive environment. The successful candidate will leverage their audit experience and build strong professional relationships while contributing to L&D initiatives that drive business success.

Benefits

Mentoring and coaching

Supportive culture

State-of-the-art collaboration spaces

Qualifications

• Experience managing and developing L&D programmes.
• Understanding of design thinking and technology.
• Ability to translate learning needs into objectives.

Responsibilities

• Develop impactful content aligned with learner needs and business goals.
• Support programme delivery through project management and facilitation.
• Coach and develop junior team members.

Skills

Programme development

Audit experience

Relationship building

Analytical skills

Communication skills

Coaching

Education

Formal L&D qualifications

Job description

Audit Learning & Development – Learning & Development Experienced Manager / Senior Manager (Development)

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 Britain’s high-growth, ambitious, and entrepreneurial companies that fuel the economy, directly advising their owners and management teams.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Learning and Development (L&D) is crucial to our strategy and success. It helps us attract, develop, and retain talented individuals who take pride in their work and deliver results. Effective L&D underpins quality and productivity by helping our people develop the necessary knowledge and skills to reach their potential.

We have an exciting opportunity for an Experienced Manager / Senior Manager or equivalent to join our Learning Development team. The role is ideal for a talented, high-performing, and ambitious individual eager to support our current curriculum, contribute to L&D initiatives, and help shape the future L&D strategy during a growth phase. This role reports to the Development and Monitoring Lead (DAM).

The Learning Development team (LD) consists of learning designers responsible for designing, curating, or creating content for our Audit programme, aiming to develop impactful, innovative solutions that meet learner needs and deliver business outcomes. The team includes technical and non-technical specialists responsible for main authoring activities.

Lead authors collaborate with the Business Partnering team (BP) and Audit Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to understand business objectives, translate them into learning objectives, and design effective learning interventions. They utilize learning design methodologies, innovation, and insights to author complex content. They also support the Learning Implementation team (LI) with project management and facilitate programmes when appropriate.

The successful candidate will lead a portfolio of programmes and have wider team responsibilities, including reviewing content, coaching junior team members, driving team workstreams, and supporting initiatives like the Learning Library and Learning Culture programmes.

This role can be based anywhere in the UK, with travel to London and other offices, including some residential stays for courses.

Key responsibilities include:

• Developing impactful, innovative content aligned with learner needs and business goals
• Reviewing content created by team members to ensure quality, learning objectives, and innovation
• Building and maintaining relationships with content SMEs
• Supporting programme delivery through project management and facilitation
• Designing, curating, or creating technical and non-technical content
• Supporting the wider L&D team with development, delivery, evaluation, coaching, and strategic initiatives
• Training facilitators and hosts to deliver content effectively
• Leveraging audit experience and understanding of accounting, auditing, and ethics to develop relevant learning
• Coaching and developing junior team members and building L&D expertise
• Collaborating with BP, LI, and Innovation teams to meet learning needs and incorporate innovation and technology

Required skills and experience

• Experienced Manager / Senior Manager (or equivalent) with a background in programme development, including non-technical and audit-technical content, preferably with regulatory reporting experience
• Practical audit experience and knowledge of financial reporting, ethics, and professional conduct
• Formal L&D qualifications are advantageous but not essential if experience is proven
• Understanding of design thinking, innovation, tools, technology, and data analytics
• Strong relationship-building, influencing, problem-solving, and activity-driving skills
• Teamworking, collaboration, coaching, and independent working abilities
• Experience with behavioural change and cultural programmes is beneficial
• Interest in developing self and others through high-quality learning interventions
• Ability to translate learning needs into objectives and coordinate responses
• Excellent analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills, both written and verbal

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect are core values at BDO. We offer mentoring, coaching, and a supportive culture, along with state-of-the-art collaboration spaces and opportunities to build your network and share skills.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses succeed, fueling the UK economy. We invest in our people and continuously evolve to build on our strengths, ensuring we remain a trusted partner with global reach, integrity, and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, empowering creative thinking and innovation.