Strategic PMO Lead: Change Delivery at Pace in City of Westminster

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.

The Operations PMO was created in June 2021 and is responsible for maximising BDO's change investment; helping deliver Change in the most effective and efficient way; track, record and report on expectation, help build change delivery capability across the firm; and bring in teams to help the firm deliver. The Operations PMO purpose is "Delivering Strategic Value at Pace". We enable BDO to make the most of its change investment, enhancing firm-wide change competence and efficiently and effectively delivering value-added change.

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.

We're now looking to recruit a Senior Project Manager to join our PMO team.

• Initiate and actively manage projects of varying size and complexity with significant strategic and/or commercial impact.
• Work with key senior firm stakeholders to understand strategic outcomes and deliver them.
• Day to day management of key projects and creation and maintenance of all associated project documentation including business cases, project plans, risks and issues, actions, decisions, steering committee preparation.
• Helping plan and design outcome focused projects, monitoring progress against agreed parameters, identifying key risks, resolving issues and initiating timely corrective action.
• Enabling project Sponsors to focus on setting direction, providing subject matter expertise input, building advocacy and removing blockers.
• Operating within the firm's prescribed project delivery standards, known as the 'Change Minimum Standards.'

• Working with key stakeholders across the business to successfully deliver project outcomes at pace.
• Understanding the inflight and upcoming changes in project business requirements.
• Day to day management of the project(s).
• Being the voice of business into the project(s).
• Plan and design ‘outcome focused’ projects, monitoring progress against agreed parameters, identifying key risks, resolving issues and initiating timely corrective action.
• Define the project's governance framework.
• Ensuring underlying workstreams are coordinated.
• Resolving risks and issues.
• Supporting individuals on the project(s).
• Ensuring project integrity and coherence.
• Ensuring outputs meet requirements within time, quality, cost constraints (and timely escalation of risks if not).
• Effective stakeholder engagement (in liaison with sponsors).
• Effective handover to business operations.

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills (incl. presentation skills).
• Project Planning (incl. dependency and capacity management).
• Project Delivery / Workpackage Oversight experience.
• Strong communications and risk/issue management skills.
• Experience of supporting, training, mentoring others in an Operations PMO role.
• The ability to drive improvements and champion change.
• Experience of delivery and Governance Frameworks.

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.

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.

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.