Succeed by shaping what matters
We’re BDO, one of the UK’s largest accountancy and business advisory organisations, helping ambitious businesses, their owners and management teams navigate a changing world.
With circa 8,500 people across the UK and Ireland, backed by a global network spanning 169 countries, there’s lots of knowledge, experience and different thinking to draw on here. But what matters is what you bring to it; your ideas, perspectives - the things you care about getting right.
So, here’s where you come in:
The team you’ll join
Our Financial Services Advisory practice brings together more than 170 specialists across risk, regulation, governance, assurance and financial modelling, helping clients respond with confidence to an increasingly complex and fast-moving market.
As part of BDO’s Consulting, Risk and Outsourcing stream, you’ll work with banks, insurers, asset managers, investment firms and other financial services organisations on some of their most important and high-profile challenges. Our expertise spans internal audit, actuarial and prudential advice, economic crime, regulatory compliance, governance, risk management, accounting advisory, financial modelling and quantitative solutions.
It’s varied, impactful work, delivered by a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team. You’ll work alongside people with deep sector knowledge and regulatory insight, bringing fresh thinking to complex challenges while building your own expertise and experience.
The role you’ll have
We are looking for a Manager to join our growing Financial Services Controls Optimisation team in London. This is an opportunity to join a growing proposition and play an important role in its continued development. You will work with financial services organisations to design, implement, remediate and optimise internal control environments across financial, operational and compliance risks. You will take responsibility for the day-to-day leadership of client engagements and workstreams. You will manage client relationships, coordinate multidisciplinary and extended delivery teams and ensure work is delivered to a consistently high standard. You will also help develop our people, support proposals and business development and contribute to the continued growth of the Controls Optimisation proposition.
Our Controls Optimisation proposition extends beyond traditional controls testing. We help clients strengthen core control frameworks, implement and optimise SOX and ICFR programmes, rationalise control environments, establish control effectiveness frameworks, strengthen first-line ownership and respond to regulatory findings and remediation requirements.
Our work covers both advisory and testing engagements, including controls transformation, control design and implementation, remediation and optimisation and control effectiveness testing. This includes requirements associated with US SOX, the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024 and broader regulatory expectations.
You'll be someone with
- Strong experience of internal controls gained within professional services, financial services or another relevant environment
- Experience of delivering controls advisory, transformation, implementation, remediation or assurance work
- A good understanding of risk and control principles and how effective controls operate within complex organisations
- Experience managing projects or substantial workstreams and coordinating delivery teams
- Strong client relationship and stakeholder management skills
- The ability to analyse complex issues and turn them into clear, practical recommendations
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
You’ll have people around you to learn from, ask questions and share thoughts with, alongside learning programmes to enhance your skillset and digital platforms to ease your work. All of this helps you succeed in achieving those big (and personal) dreams.
How you’ll succeed
You’ll have plenty of ways to develop at BDO; you might build deeper expertise in what you already do, take on something new or simply get better at the things that matter to you.
How and where you work matters too. Our agile working framework is designed around our Better Together approach: bringing more in-person time with clients and teams, creating more opportunities to share ideas, build confidence and develop day-to-day.
Whatever success looks like to you, you won’t be shaping it alone. You’ll have people around you who want you to do well, and plenty of opportunities to make it all count.
That’s how we’ll all continue to succeed by shaping what matters.
Apply now.
At BDO, we want everyone to feel included, valued and able to succeed. We welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to improving access to opportunities – work we've been recognised for as Company of the Year at the 2026 British Diversity Awards. Because we know different experiences and perspectives make us stronger.
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