Resourcing Manager

BDO UK LLP; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO UK LLP is seeking a Resource Manager within Audit Resourcing to define and deliver a strategic resourcing plan across a business unit. You will influence senior stakeholders, lead workforce planning, and ensure alignment with commercial goals and audit quality.

You will operate as a trusted adviser to Directors and Partners, guiding planning cycles and delivering high-impact outcomes while supporting agile working and career development within the team.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in resource planning, workforce strategy, or operations within professional services.
• Proven track record of leading resourcing strategy and delivering outcomes across large portfolios.
• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to make high-impact decisions.
• Established experience influencing senior stakeholders (Director/Partner level).
• Strong leadership capability, including team management and performance oversight.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the resourcing strategy across a business unit or sector.
• Provide senior leadership on workforce planning, operational delivery, and stakeholder engagement.
• Own resourcing outcomes, commercial performance, and audit quality.
• Act as strategic decision-maker and trusted advisor to Directors and Partners.
• Lead planning cycles and align workforce strategy with business objectives.

Skills

Resource planning

Workforce strategy

Stakeholder influence

Leadership

Analytical acumen

Job description

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 leading them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our biggest asset is our people, so our Audit Resourcing Directorate are focused on ensuring we have the right people working together to deliver the best results, whilst providing space for us all to deliver quality work and reach our potential.

They use their specialist expertise to ensure we enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm. By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions.

We’ll help you succeed

The work we do is underpinned by quality. We deliver audits which are trusted and transparent which can be relied upon by companies and their stakeholders.

You’ll be someone who is comfortable working pro-actively and, managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with Senior Managers, Directors, and BDO’s Partners. You’ll help deliver accurate and transparent reporting to all relevant stakeholders as you provide long term value.

The Resource Manager is accountable for defining and delivering the resourcing strategy across a business unit or sector. This role provides senior leadership across workforce planning, operational delivery, and stakeholder engagement, with clear ownership of resourcing outcomes, commercial performance, and audit quality.

You will operate as a strategic decision-maker and trusted advisor to Directors and Partners, setting direction for resourcing activities, leading planning cycles, and ensuring alignment between workforce strategy and business objectives.

You’ll be someone with:

• Extensive experience in resource planning, workforce strategy, or operations within professional services
• Proven track record of leading resourcing strategy and delivering outcomes across large or complex portfolios
• Strong strategic thinking with the ability to make and own high-impact decisions
• Established experience influencing senior stakeholders (Director/Partner level)
• Strong leadership capability, including team management and performance oversight
• Advanced analytical and commercial acumen, translating data into business decisions

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to our 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 at 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.

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 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.