Senior Project Manager

BDO; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy firm is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead and manage significant projects that drive strategic value. This role requires extensive experience in change delivery methodologies and offers opportunities for agile work. The ideal candidate will have strong stakeholder management skills and a proactive approach to project challenges.

Benefits

Agile working opportunities

Career development programs

Supportive culture and mentoring

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in managing change delivery.
• Experience in a professional services environment is an advantage.
• Ability to provide constructive feedback and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day project operations and changes.
• Define and govern the project's framework.
• Ensure project outputs meet quality, time, and cost constraints.

Skills

Attention to detail

Proactive approach

Resilience

Stakeholder management

Change delivery approaches

Tools

Workday HCM

Workday Finance

MSD CMS

Job description

Overview

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

The Operations PMO as created in Jun’21 and is responsible for maximising BDOs change investment; helping deliver Change in the most effective and efficient way; track, record and report on expectation, help build change delivery capability across the firm; and bring in teams to help the firm deliver.

Our motto is “Delivering Strategic Value at Pace”

We are responsible for delivering the firm’s strategic imperatives and we need an experienced senior project manager to initiate and actively manage projects with significant strategic and/or commercial impact.

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.

Responsibilities

• Understanding the inflight and upcoming changes in project business requirements(s)
• Day to day management of 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)
• Ensuring underlying workstreams are coordinated
• Resolving risks and issues
• Monitoring project(s) budget, monitoring expenditure etc.
• Liaison with design authority / architecture teams / other IT teams / risk / dependent projects and product teams / suppliers
• Work closely with the Programme Manager to ensure the best outcomes
• Ensuring outputs meet requirements within time, quality, cost constraints (and timely escalation of risks if not)
• Liaise with 3rd parties / drafting workpackages as required
• Identifying and initiating additional activities wherever gaps exist
• Regular reporting to your sponsor and other governance forums

Qualifications & Experience

• You'll be someone with
• Attention to detail, pragmatic – keep bigger picture in mind
• The ability to take ownership and keep stakeholders up to date on progress / task completion
• A proactive approach to use own initiative to achieve timely successful outcomes
• Resilience and the ability to maintain a positive attitude
• The ability to challenge confidently in a professional manner
• Constructively Provide candid feedback and recommendations
• Extensive experience of change delivery approaches (e.g. Waterfall, Agile)
• OKR/Benefits tracking
• Experience of developing and embedding ‘right-sized’ change delivery and governance (aligned to portfolio and programme governance) to suit the project and stakeholder needs
• Corporate processes and procedures (e.g. Governance, Finance, HR, minimum standards) and associated language / culture
• Identifying and monitoring and developing appropriate remedial plans for key project performance (KPIs) and risk (KRIs) metrics.
• 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 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.