Business Services & Outsourcing Associate Director

BDO UK; Leeds; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy and advisory firm seeks a Qualified Accountant to coordinate outsourcing delivery within their North Outsourcing team. The role involves managing client expectations, ensuring quality, and aligning with national outsourcing agendas. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACA) or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrable experience delivering outsourcing services.
• Solid accountancy experience required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate delivery of outsourcing work within the North Outsourcing team.
• Ensure quality client work and manage expectations.
• Drive growth and commercial management of the outsourcing portfolio.

Skills

Problem-solving

Communication

Team collaboration

Client management

Education

Qualified Accountant (ACCA/ACA) or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Excel

PowerBI

Job description

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 dynamic role, you'll coordinate the delivery of outsourcing work within the North Outsourcing team, focusing on scale-up and growth businesses. You'll ensure quality client work, manage client expectations, and drive growth and commercial management of the outsourcing portfolio.

You'll align with the national outsourcing agenda, ensuring the team meets required service levels, complies with risk management requirements, and aligns their work with the firm's processes and procedures.

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 and outsourcing technology solutions.
• Excellent knowledge of accounting packages
• Experience of working collaboratively in a team to deliver projects

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 workingside 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 alwayshave access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

Weknow that collaboration is the key to creating value for our clients and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-artcollaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you tobuild 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.

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