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Project Manager

BDO UK LLP

London

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GBP 50,000 - 80,000

Full time

8 days ago

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Job summary

Join a dynamic and forward-thinking company as a Project Manager, where your expertise will drive significant change and impact. You will manage a diverse portfolio of projects, collaborating with senior management and stakeholders to ensure successful delivery. This role offers the opportunity to work in a vibrant environment that values innovation and teamwork, while providing ample opportunities for personal and professional growth. With a commitment to agile working and a supportive culture, you will be empowered to make a real difference in the entrepreneurial landscape of the UK economy.

Benefits

Agile Working Opportunities

Career Development Programs

Collaborative Workspaces

Mentoring and Coaching

Networking Events

Professional Development Resources

Qualifications

Extensive experience in managing change delivery approaches.
Strong knowledge of project management methodologies and frameworks.
Ability to engage and communicate effectively with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Manage a portfolio of projects with strategic impact.
Plan and design outcome-focused projects with key stakeholders.
Monitor project budgets and ensure timely delivery.

Skills

Change Delivery Approaches

Agile Methodologies

Waterfall Methodologies

Stakeholder Engagement

Project Management

Service Management Concepts

Organisational Governance

Corporate Processes

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a Relevant Field

Tools

Workday HCM

Workday Finance

MSD CMS

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Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

Ideas | People | Trust

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

Operations PMO is a vital department. As well as supporting senior management in strategy, operations and decision making in the UK, this highly-experienced team make a big impact on significant projects and processes across our international network. A role in this team comes with a lot of responsibility and variety too. Whether you’re helping senior management implement key decisions and strategies effectively or delivering on your own projects, being part of this department means you’ll get plenty of exposure and experience. Could you make a real impact on our firm locally, nationally and internationally?

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.

You will Initiate and actively manage a portfolio of projects ranging from small through to medium sized, multi-streamed projects with strategic and/or commercial impact with the support from the Senior Project Manager/Programme Manager. You will work with key stakeholders to understand inflight and emerging requirements being the ‘voice of the business’.

In this busy and rewarding role you'll:

Understand the inflight and upcoming changes in project business requirements(s)
Day to day manageme the project(s)
Be the voice of business into the project(s)
Plan and design ‘outcome focused’ projects, monitoring progress against agreed parameters, identifying key risks, resolving issues and initiating timely corrective action
Define the project's governance framework (including 'hooking' into portfolio / programme governance)
Ensure underlying workstreams are coordinated
Resolve risks and issues
Support individuals on the project(s)
Ensure project integrity and coherence
Monitor project(s) budget, monitoring expenditure etc.
Help appoint additional staff into the project and underlying workstreams / activities
Liaise with design authority / architecture teams / other IT teams / risk / dependent projects and product teams / suppliers
Ensure outputs meet requirements within time, quality, cost constraints (and timely escalation of risks if not)
Ensure efficiency of resources
Liaise with 3rd parties / drafting work packages as required
Identify and initiate additional activities wherever gaps exist
Regularly report to your sponsor and other governance forums
Effective stakeholder engagement (in liaison with sponsors)
Effective handover to business operations
Champion Change Minimum Standards
Actively support assurance activities

You'll be someone with:

Extensive experience of change delivery approaches (e.g. Waterfall, Agile)
OKR/Benefits tracking experience
Service management concepts and frameworks an advantage (e.g. ITIL)
Organisational governance structures and associated relationships experience
An understanding of the content of current and emerging portfolio of change and how it adds value
An understanding the corporate vision and strategy and the wider industry
Corporate processes and procedures (e.g. Governance, Finance, HR, minimum standards) and associated language / culture
Experience on people and culture projects an advantage
Experience on 'social impact' projects an advantage
Experience on HR and ESG projects an advantage
Experience of Workday HCM, Workday Finance or MSD CMS an advantage
Experience of a professional services environment an advantage

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 working side 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 always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for our clients and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build 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 you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve 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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Seniority level

Seniority level
Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Employment type
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Project Management and Information Technology
Industries
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