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 that lead them.
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 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.
Provide business-focused and best practice HR support to designated areas of the business.
Act as a primary contact for HR matters to Partners and People Managers (PMs) with support of HR Advisors and the wider HR function.
Work closely with specific People Partners or business leaders to drive forward the firm-wide people proposition and local people priorities within your designated business areas.
Be a credible and commercial business advisor, offering Partners and Business leaders considered HR guidance in line with employment legislation, firm policy and best practice.
Lead and deliver key HR calendar activities such as annual performance reviews, promotions and reward reviews.
Work closely with your business areas to identify localised HR initiatives and priorities, keeping closely connected with the Senior HR Manager and wider HR function to ensure alignment and consistency.
Support the Senior HR Manager to drive firm-wide and stream-specific strategic priorities, collaborating across the HR function to provide a seamless and first-class HR Service.
Manage two HR Advisors, offering ongoing career development and guidance to ensure the delivery of a seamless HR experience in your business areas.
Identify areas for improvement in the delivery of calendar activities and help implement recommendations and changes.
Establish and maintain influential relationships with key stakeholders – including Partners, PMs and the wider HR function.
Pro-actively coach PMs and Partners in HR matters.
Provide HR support for projects within your designated business areas and lead on firm-wide projects as required.
Have an excellent understanding of the Centres of Excellence and what the HR team can and does deliver, leveraging and working in partnership with them to support your designated business area.
Take a commercial, considered stance to HR-related risk assessment linking in with the Senior HR Manager and ER team and escalating issues as appropriate.
Coach PMs and Partners on HR matters to share your knowledge and increase their capability in dealing with people matters
Advise PMs and Partners on HR policy and process and helping managers to make fair and commercially sound decisions e.g. flexible working requests, absence etc).
Advise PMs and Partners on broader HR activities such as absence management, performance and talent management and other people related matters.
Lead cyclic events like salary review, consistency meetings and promotions (e.g. preparing ad hoc reports, attending consistency meetings)
Proven experience of employee relations issues and taking a pragmatic approach to managing them.
Proven experience as a credible and assertive HR business partner influencing up to Partner level.
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.
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. 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. At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.