Financial Reporting Assistant Manager in London

We are BDO, an accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate today’s changing world. Our clients are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and the owners and management teams that lead them.

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.

Our clients 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 clients and building long-lasting relationships. 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.

This is a brilliant chance to join a fast-growing business with real potential for career progression. Our Northern team boasts a fantastic culture, and this service line offers a flexible schedule and work-life balance. We’ve embraced a hybrid working policy, allowing you to work from home or the office depending on the task and business needs. This role is perfect for developing your financial reporting and technical accounting skills within a supportive, close-knit team. We provide high-quality training and development to the successful candidate. We work with a wide range of clients, mainly within the SME space.

As an Assistant Manager, you’ll manage a portfolio of clients day-to-day and support senior team members in delivering services on time. Your portfolio will mainly involve financial reporting technical advisory projects and preparing and reviewing year-end statutory accounts for large groups or complex clients under frameworks like FRS 102 and IFRS. You’ll assess resource needs, monitor progress against budget and timeframes, review junior staff work, and resolve issues before Manager or Partner review. You’ll work independently, ensuring project delivery to the Manager or Partner for review, and be the first point of contact for clients and auditors throughout the project. Besides client-facing work, you’ll support the management team on departmental matters, including coaching and feedback for junior staff, ensuring compliance with stream policies and procedures, and the firm’s risk management procedures.

You’ll be someone with:

• ACA, ACCA or equivalent qualification.
• Previous experience in a supervisory role.
• Strong working knowledge of UK reporting standards (including UK GAAP and UK-adopted IFRS) and related financial reporting requirements.
• Previous experience preparing and/or reviewing statutory accounts, consolidations and cash flows.
• Evidence of the ability to research technical accounting matters.

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. 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. We can provide the best support for our clients and people when we’re working side by side. 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 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.

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 them. Across 17 UK locations, we are 6,500 unique minds coming together to help our clients reach 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.