Global Business Services Director in Bristol

The Business Services and Outsourcing team are essential to meeting our clients' evolving requirements. As well as delivering long-term, sustainable value to businesses by providing a range of solutions such as accounting, payroll and compliance services, they also play a key role in tying together many of our services across BDO both domestically and internationally.

By building deep and meaningful relationships with a range of clients from ambitious entrepreneurial SMEs to large multi-national groups, our BS&O team don’t just advise on their specific business challenges, they open doors for other teams to provide our firm’s wider service offering. To succeed in this agile environment, you’ll need to demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills and initiative. In return, you’ll have the opportunity for progression, and the chance to develop in one of the industry’s most exciting and varied roles.

You’ll be someone who can work pro-actively, managing your own tasks, but you’ll also be confident collaborating with others, communicating regularly with senior managers, Directors, and BDO’s Partners to enable us to serve our clients effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to our clients.

Join a high-performing, fast-growing team delivering outsourced accounting, payroll, and compliance services to leading clients across technology, life sciences, real estate, and financial services. As a Director in our Global Business Services (GBS) team, you’ll shape strategy, oversee a diverse client portfolio, and drive operational excellence.

This role offers the best of both worlds—practice and industry—alongside career variety, sector specialism, and the flexibility to manage your time through BDO’s agile working framework. You’ll collaborate with senior leadership to grow the business, challenge strategic thinking, and deliver impactful change.

We’re looking for someone with:

• ACA / ACCA qualified or equivalent
• Significant experience of delivering international accounting projects with operations in different countries using, or within, a shared service centre
• Proven experience in managing a wide portfolio of concurrent projects and project teams within a project management framework
• Managing and developing staff i.e. coordinating staff projects, mentoring, counselling, appraising and recruiting
• Experience in delivering business development activities

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 everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task in hand.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for our clients 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’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.