M&A Executive

ACCA Careers; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning programmes

Digital platforms to ease your work

Job summary

BDO is a leading UK accountancy and business advisory firm seeking an Executive to support senior team members in delivering M&A services for sell-side and buy-side transactions. You will gain experience across public and private companies, owner-managed businesses and private equity structures.

The role offers exposure to Debt Advisory, Growth Advisory, Financial Modelling and more, with learning programmes and digital platforms to support your development within a collaborative, fast-paced

Qualifications

• ACA/ACCA qualified (or equivalent).
• Demonstrate knowledge of M&A processes.
• Strong financial acumen.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to work across several projects and occasionally handle pressurised situations.

Responsibilities

• Executive will support and work closely with senior members to assist in timely delivery of services.
• Gain experience in corporate finance for buy-side and sell-side transactions across public, private, owner-managed and private equity-backed companies.
• Develop knowledge of different sectors while contributing to deal execution.

Skills

ACA/ACCA qualified

M&A knowledge

Financial acumen

Project management

Education

ACA/ACCA qualification

Job description

Succeed By Shaping What Matters

We’re BDO, one of the UK’s largest accountancy and business advisory organisations, helping ambitious businesses, their owners and management teams navigate a changing world.

Succeed By Shaping What Matters

We’re BDO, one of the UK’s largest accountancy and business advisory organisations, helping ambitious businesses, their owners and management teams navigate a changing world. With circa 8,500 people across the UK and Ireland, backed by a global network spanning 169 countries, there’s lots of knowledge, experience and different thinking to draw on here. But what matters is what you bring to it; your ideas, perspectives - the things you care about getting right.

So, Here’s Where You Come In

The team you’ll join

Our Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) team advises entrepreneurs and mid-market clients on selling their businesses and buying other businesses. To do this, we have experienced sector and regional specialists who understand our clients’ business objectives and the industry and markets they work in. We use our knowledge and expertise to advise and challenge our clients, with the majority of our projects being sell-side. We also offer complementary services in Debt Advisory, Growth Advisory, Financial Modelling, Value Creation Services and Commercial Due Diligence to help our clients throughout their growth journey. In addition, we work closely with other streams across the organisation, including Advisory TS and Tax, to provide a singular approach to helping our clients succeed.

The role you’ll have

As an Executive, you will support and work closely with senior members to assist in the timely delivery of services. You will leverage your skills and prior experience whilst gaining an experience in the field of corporate finance for both buy-side and sell-side transactions, involving public and private companies, owner-managed businesses and private equity houses. You will also develop knowledge of different sectors.

You’ll be someone with

• ACA/ACCA qualified (or equivalent)
• Demonstrate knowledge of M&A processes
• Strong financial acumen
• Strong project management skills and the ability to work across several projects and occasionally handle pressurised situation

You’ll have people around you to learn from, ask questions and share thoughts with, alongside learning programmes to enhance your skillset and digital platforms to ease your work. All of this helps you succeed in achieving those big (and personal) dreams.

How You’ll Succeed

You’ll have plenty of ways to develop at BDO; you might build deeper expertise in what you already do, take on something new or simply get better at the things that matter to you.

How and where you work matters too. Our agile working framework is designed around our Better Together approach: bringing more in-person time with clients and teams, creating more opportunities to share ideas, build confidence and develop day-to-day.

Whatever success looks like to you, you won’t be shaping it alone. You’ll have people around you who want you to do well, and plenty of opportunities to make it all count.

That’s how we’ll all continue to succeed by shaping what matters.

At BDO, we want everyone to feel included, valued and able to succeed. We welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to improving access to opportunities – work we've been recognised for as Company of the Year at the 2026 British Diversity Awards. Because we know different experiences and perspectives make us stronger.