Senior Business Analyst

BDO Llp; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO is seeking an experienced Senior Business Analyst to join the PMO. You’ll facilitate, document and interpret business processes and translate them into application and operating requirements, communicating with senior managers, directors and partners to shape solutions.

You’ll lead in delivering complex change initiatives across Tax, Audit, Deals and CRO, build relationships with stakeholders, promote BA best practices and contribute to the BA Centre of Excellence, while working within our

Qualifications

• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills.
• Natural curiosity to understand business challenges and help solve them through change practices.
• Experience interpreting business requests and translating them to requirements.
• Experience writing requirements specifications.
• Demonstrable evidence of gathering, analyzing and documenting business processes using BPMN techniques.
• Experience in outcome-driven analysis skills and techniques.
• Experience in use of data insights to drive sound recommendations.
• Experience in Agile BA practices.
• The ability to present to an audience in both formal and informal situations.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal including active listening.

Responsibilities

• Play a leading role in delivering complex business change initiatives, helping shape solutions that deliver strategic, operational, and commercial value.
• Provide leadership and guidance to Business Analysts and team members, sharing knowledge and promoting best practice
• Build trusting relations with business stakeholders to enable the translation of their business strategies and build growth plans into BA delivery pipeline.
• Establish yourself as a trusted partner to the business by championing BA best practices to help deliver the change agendas
• Model business structures, systems, and processes in light of proposed changes
• Design test scenarios and test scripts and support the business in conducting adequate regression and user acceptance testing.
• Promote good working relationships and respond quickly to deal with conflict or breakdowns in communication.
• Negotiate effectively to achieve agreed courses of action with stakeholders whilst maintaining their buy-in.
• Drive and support business users to follow good governance practice such as regular review of issues, risks and dependencies.
• Facilitate meetings incorporating business, technology and user groups to gather information and requirements.
• Gather data to enable understanding of business processes, related barriers, risks and needs.
• Use questioning techniques to challenge requests if the scope, benefits and proposed deliverables are unclear.
• Support the growth of the Business Analysis function through actively contributing to building the core components of the BA centre of Excellence

Skills

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills

Requirements gathering

Requirements specs

BPMN modelling

Data insights

Agile BA

Presentation skills

Communication

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.

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 Project Management Office is a business unit within BDO’s Central Operations, responsible for coordinating the delivery of complex strategic change across the organisation.

You’ll work with teams across BDO to plan, track and report on change programmes, bringing the right people together to turn plans into action. It’s work that gives you a broad view of the organisation and a real part to play in how BDO changes and moves forward.

The role you’ll have

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.

The PMO team provides change delivery services to the core client delivery streams: Tax, Audit, Deals, and CRO, and to Central Operations. The primary focus of this role will be to provide Business Analysis services to Audit partners and the wider Audit stream.

We are looking for an experienced Senior Business Analyst who possesses strong communication and presentation skills with the capability to listen and influence stakeholders in delivering the right solutions. In this role you will facilitate, document and interpret business processes, business and functional requirements and will translate these into application and operational requirements. You will then communicate these to internal and external stakeholders.

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.

• Play a leading role in delivering complex business change initiatives, helping shape solutions that deliver strategic, operational, and commercial value.
• Provide leadership and guidance to Business Analysts and team members, sharing knowledge and promoting best practice
• Build trusting relations with business stakeholders to enable the translation of their business strategies and build growth plans into BA delivery pipeline.
• Establish yourself as a trusted partner to the business by championing BA best practices to help deliver the change agendas
• Model business structures, systems, and processes in light of proposed changes
• Design test scenarios and test scripts and support the business in conducting adequate regression and user acceptance testing.
• Promote good working relationships and respond quickly to deal with conflict or breakdowns in communication.
• Negotiate effectively to achieve agreed courses of action with stakeholders whilst maintaining their buy-in.
• Drive and support business users to follow good governance practice such as regular review of issues, risks and dependencies.
• Facilitate meetings incorporating business, technology and user groups to gather information and requirements.
• Gather data to enable understanding of business processes, related barriers, risks and needs.
• Use questioning techniques to challenge requests if the scope, benefits and proposed deliverables are unclear.
• Support the growth of the Business Analysis function through actively contributing to building the core components of the BA centre of Excellence

You’ll be someone with

• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills
• Natural curiosity to understand the business challenges and help solve them through the engagement of sound change practices
• Experience of interpreting business requests and translating them to requirements
• Experience of writing requirements specifications
• Demonstrable evidence of gathering, analysing and documenting business processes using BMPN techniques
• Experience in outcome driven analysis skills and techniques
• Experience in use of data insights to drive sound recommendations
• Experience in Agile BA practices
• The ability to present to an audience in both formal and informal situations
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal including active listening

Nice to have:

• Experience in Big 4 professional services firms preferably in Accountancy and Audit
• Experience in Lean Six Sigma Business Process Improvement methodologies

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.