IT Innovation Adviser

Bdo; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy and business advisory firm is looking for a Product Manager to drive innovation for their digital products. The role will involve collaborating with various teams to define product strategies, oversee project lifecycles, and ensure that innovations are effectively implemented across the firm. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in product development and agile methodologies. This position offers you a chance to expand your career while contributing to the future of the company, supporting firms and entrepreneurs in navigating today's challenges.

Benefits

Agile working opportunities

Training and career support

Collaboration spaces

Qualifications

• Proven track record in product development from concept to delivery.
• Ability to champion digital innovations in a professional setting.
• Excellent attention to detail for product aesthetics and functionality.

Responsibilities

• Define and assess benefits of new digital products for business areas.
• Administer the internal innovation platform for users.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams throughout product development.

Skills

Innovation

Product Management

Agile Delivery

Digital Product Development

Communication

Education

Product Owner qualifications

Knowledge of professional services

Job description

Responsibilities

• 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.
• Help arrange and deliver learning and training across a range of skills and levels, in order to increase uptake of delivered innovation, and to improve our Digital Mindset and client experience.
• Help drive innovation – both mindset and practical delivery – throughout BDO's 8,000 employees and at all levels.

Qualifications

• A passion for innovation and product development, from concept to delivery to ownership, with a demonstrable track record of successful products.
• The ability to champion ideas, innovation, digital, mobile and AI in a professional services environment.
• The ability to contribute to all aspects of digital product development, including business planning, costs/revenue projections, marketing/comms, operational planning, product requirements (writing epics/features/stories and managing the product backlog), liaising with development teams and solution architects, change control, project timescales and costs, UX/UI and digital design, customer feedback and co‑creation.
• Excellent knowledge of digital and mobile product creation, with attention to detail and the desire for products to look fantastic and delight customers.
• The ability to work with both internal delivery teams and external suppliers (scouting, selection, managing commercial terms and actual delivery).
• The ability to manage challenging ideas through the full lifecycle, i.e. from idea to product.
• Product Management and Product Owner experience and qualifications.
• Knowledge of the professional services sector, specifically accountancy areas of tax, audit and advisory, and the associated trends and products (desirable).
• Knowledge of innovation and product development lifecycles, product design and delivery methodology.
• The ability to organise product portfolio and manage backlog of change.
• General agile delivery and management skills.

About BDO and Your Opportunity

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.

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 to ensure our services and applications are fit for the modern market. Our IT team collaborates with every department, develops, explores and implements new ideas, helping us change the future of accounting, tax and business consulting. We maintain the tech that keeps us advancing, adopting the future of financial technical solutions and finding new ways to drive us forward.

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, which grows from a thorough understanding of their business and from building long‑lasting relationships.

You will be 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.

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 are 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. Our agile working framework keeps teams connected, helping them share ideas and support each other. With state‑of‑the‑art collaboration spaces, you will have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work. Collaboration is key to creating value for our clients and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, and we invest heavily in multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources to keep you learning.