Insurance Account Handler

Bdo; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading business consulting firm is seeking a proactive IT professional to drive innovation across its teams. In this role, you'll help define new opportunities and assess the impact of digital products on enhancing business operations. You'll collaborate with various departments and manage the internal innovation platform while ensuring product specifications align with business strategies. Join us in transforming ideas into reality and play a crucial role in shaping the future of our services.

Qualifications

• Comfortable working proactively and managing tasks independently.
• Confident in collaborating with others and communicating effectively.
• Ability to identify and promote opportunities for innovation.

Responsibilities

• Drive innovation throughout BDO's 8,000 employees.
• Create and define new opportunities and assess digital product benefits.
• Manage the internal innovation platform and assist in Agile processes.
• Ensure product specifications and requirements match delivered solutions.
• Support communication of the product roadmap within the innovation community.

Skills

Innovation mindset

Agile/SCRUM experience

Collaboration skills with senior management

Strong communication skills

Job description

To ensure our services and applications are fit for the modern market, our IT team collaborates with every department. They develop, they explore and they implement the new ideas helping us to change the future of accounting, tax and business consulting. But, just as importantly, they maintain the tech that keeps us advancing. By testing and adopting the future of financial technical solutions, they find new and exciting ways to drive us forward. And you could too. In an IT role at BDO, you'll become part of a team that act as the backbone for our business. No matter who you are or what your skillset is, we'll give you the training and support you need to achieve whatever you put your mind to. We'll help you succeed. Leading organisations 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 them and building long-lasting relationships. 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. BDO has ideas at the heart of what it does - "Ideas, People, Trust" is our tagline. This position will help transform those ideas into tangible and demonstrable innovation and change within the company and with our clients, often through digital services and products. You will be helping build the BDO of the Future. Basically, turning ideas into reality. In this busy and rewarding role you'll also:

Responsibilities

• Help drive innovation - both mindset and practical delivery - throughout BDO's 8,000 employees and at all levels.
• Help the business areas create and define new opportunities, innovations and assess whether digital products can help deliver benefits for these areas.
• Help the business define the benefits of the change, short and long term, tangible and intangible and assess priority.
• Help to administer the internal innovation platform for all users, including helping people set innovation challenges and managing the ideas generated.
• Assist the Product Owner where required in our Agile/SCRUM development process, and interface into our internal and external development teams.
• Ensure the product is complete - i.E. the business strategy, the product specification, the business case and the technical requirements match the delivered solution, both commercially and technically.
• Liaise with the Business Relationship Managers to help manage the pipeline of incoming products, PoCs/prototypes and technology requests. Support them with captivating content to extend the reach of innovation within business units.
• Help manage the firm's innovation community to communicate our product roadmap, and help develop new ideas and possible products.