Audit Quality Department - Audit Quality Indicators - Manager (12 month FTC)

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

Audit quality is central to our strategy as an Audit Stream, the key ingredient to our success. Consistent high audit quality enables us to attract, develop and retain talented people and be proud of our work. Audit quality allows us to compete in the market and demonstrate that we can play a key role in market reform.

Consistently high audit quality does not happen by chance. It requires a mindset and culture of challenge and professional scepticism, appropriate resources both people and intellectual, investment in central support for engagement teams and technology solutions. Within the last year we have increased our headcount significantly, invested in new partners, and commenced a significant investment programme in our central quality support team.

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.

This is an opportunity for talented, high performing and ambitious Manager to join the Audit Quality Indicators Team in the AQD on a fixed term contract until August 2026 in an exciting period and help to shape the role and the expanding team. You will report into the Audit Quality Indicators Partner and work closely with Audit Quality Indicators Team Lead.

Responsibilities

• Performing the rolling effectiveness reviews of the Break the Cycle (project management) programme and operationalising any resultant actions;
• Monitoring compliance with the Audit Quality Milestones and Break the Cycle checkpoints, investigating outliers and engaging with Audit Quality Leads to understand approved exceptions;
• Managing the RI Portfolio Review process - including data collation, quarterly and annual meetings (attendance at meetings and documentation of outputs), as well as monitoring of status of actions within reporting packs
• Operationalising additional audit quality functions and initiatives as they are identified;
• Assisting with the production of ad hoc reports for internal and external stakeholders, including but not limited to, audit leadership and regulators;
• Maintaining and analysing data used to identify audited entities for enhanced support based on pre-existing indicators and ad-hoc requests
• Forming a collaborative and healthy working relationship with the Directors and Managers in the team; and
• Collaboration with AQD Director and the Head of the Audit Quality Directorate for c10-14 hours per week working on quality initiatives, including, but not limited to:
  • Ad hoc projects to drive audit quality, including the delivery of actions from the Single Quality Action Plan
  • Collaborating with RIs, and specifically AQLs, in the audit stream on a number of projects
  • Ongoing assistance with the oversight of the PIE OEPI Monitoring reporting, PIE Undertakings Report and Transparency Report

You'll be someone with:

• High degree of IT literacy with an excellent knowledge of Excel and experience of manipulating large volumes of data
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Excellent project management and organising skills – able to prioritise multiple tasks effectively and cope well under the pressure of deadlines
• Ability to build strong relationships with internal parties in the Audit Stream including senior individuals
• Accuracy and attention to detail essential, including working with highly confidential data
• Take personal responsibility and accountability for own work, with a proven ability to prioritise multiple tasks effectively to meet deadlines
• Have the ability to work both independently and collaboratively as part of a small team
• The ability to communicate with partners and staff at all levels.

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your 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 for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, 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.

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