Transaction Services Director

BDO Llp; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO is seeking a Director in the Northwest Transaction Services team to develop and grow the Transaction Services business within Corporate Finance and to mentor and lead team members.

You will provide due diligence for acquisitions, sale processes and capital markets transactions, managing a team and delivering services to clients with commercial acumen and senior oversight.

Qualifications

• ACA/ACCA qualified (or overseas equivalent), or relevant work experience.
• Extensive experience of working within a corporate finance department.
• Experience of managing assignments within a consulting environment with relevant commercial management skills.
• Good knowledge of MS Office, in particular Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• People management and coaching experience
• Proven background in developing business through networks or referrals. Positively contributing to business growth
• For those involved in Capital Markets transactions a thorough knowledge of the relevant legislation

Responsibilities

• Develop and grow the Transaction Services business within Corporate Finance and develop team members.
• Provide due diligence services to support acquisitions, sale processes and capital markets transactions.
• Be responsible for a team and the commercial delivery of services to our clients

Skills

Corporate finance experience

Consulting experience

People management

Business development

Capital Markets knowledge

Education

ACA/ACCA qualified

Tools

MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

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

The Transaction Services (TS) team helps clients to navigate a transaction, whether they’re buying or selling a business, or raising debt or equity, including on public markets. We use analytical and investigative skills to build our clients’ understanding of a business ahead of a transaction, helping them negotiate areas such as price and deal structure. Our clients include companies, PE houses and banks, and we work with buyers and sellers. The earlier we get involved, the more value we can add, for example, helping a company to prepare for a sale or fundraising. That means you could work with private equity-owned businesses, shareholders preparing to sell, or businesses looking to grow through acquisitions.

The role you'll have

You’ll be a Director in our Northwest Transactions Services Team and you’ll develop and grow the Transaction Services business within Corporate Finance, as well as develop team members. You’ll have the opportunity to support a range of clients by providing due diligence services to support them through events such as acquisitions, sale processes and capital markets transactions. As a Director you’ll be responsible for a team and the commercial delivery of services to our clients

You’ll be someone with:

• ACA/ACCA qualified (or overseas equivalent), or relevant work experience.
• Extensive experience of working within a corporate finance department.
• Experience of managing assignments within an consulting environment with relevant commercial management skills
• Good knowledge of MS Office, in particular Word, Powerpoint and Excel.
• People management and coaching experience
• Proven background in developing business through networks or referrals. Positively contributing to business growth
• For those involved in Capital Markets transactions a thorough knowledge of the relevant legislation

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.