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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.

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 greatest asset is our people, so our HR team focus on ensuring we are all reaching our potential. They use their specialist expertise to help us attract great talent, 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

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.

You'll be someone who enjoys team leadership and is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own workload, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO's partners to help businesses effectively.

This role is responsible for the development and delivery of the firm's performance management and talent management processes for our populations to Director level reporting into our Director of Learning.

You will be focused on developing and delivering our approach to support personal and professional development and organisational performance. To empower our people to make the most of the opportunities to develop and grow at BDO and to bring their best selves to work to deliver success for themselves, our business and our clients. You will also champion and build our continuous feedback culture as part of our holistic learning strategy aligned to business ambitions.

The ideal candidate will have a passion for performance improvement and talent management with an understanding of how to deliver effective change in a matrix organisation collaborating across firmwide stakeholder groups.

You will be working as part of our forward-thinking learning team and in partnership with our fellow HR Team colleagues.

You'll also:

• Consult with senior stakeholders across the business and HR Team colleagues to develop and implement our approach to performance management aligned to business ambitions to support continuous learning and performance.
• Foster a culture of quality conversations and feedback to support self-reflection, development and performance. To champion quality conversations and to simplify process.
• Bring market insights and experience of developing a feedback culture and identify opportunities to develop our approach.
• Consult with senior stakeholders and HR Team colleagues to develop our approach to talent identification and promotion processes for our populations to Director level. An initial focus on promotions from Senior Manager to Director.
• Align to our partner promotion process to support transparency, engagement and career development from an early stage.
• Work closely with our People Development Team to design and deliver talent development offerings aligned to our core skills offering and succession planning.
• Ensure our performance and talent processes are aligned with our EDI strategy and our Reward strategy as part of our holistic People strategy.
• Monitor data to evaluate the effectiveness and impact of talent and performance strategies to identify trends and to support strategic decision making.
• Lead and coach one direct Manager level report.
• Ensure all performance and talent practices comply with relevant quality controls.
• Work closely with the People Development Operations Manager on processes and work with the Shared Services Centre.

You'll be someone with:

• Proven experience in a senior manager role developing and delivering performance and talent management approaches in professional services or a similar regulated environment.
• Strong collaboration skills to understand how to connect across the organisation to influence and deliver effective change.
• Experience of developing strong trusted relationships to consult, influence, advise and challenge stakeholders at all levels of the business.
• Excellent project management skills, with the ability to manage and deliver on multiple projects and strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communications and presentation skills, to present to senior stakeholder groups.
• Experience of compliance with internal quality and risk processes.
• Experience of working with WorkDay preferred.
• Accredited coaching qualification preferred.

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.