IT Vendor Analyst

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 that lead them.

To ensure our services and applications are fit for the modern market, our IT team collaborates with every department. They develop, explore and implement new ideas helping us to change the future of accounting, tax and business consulting. They maintain the tech that keeps us advancing. By testing and adopting the future of financial technical solutions, they find new and exciting ways to drive us forward.

In an IT role at BDO, you’ll become part of a team that acts as the backbone for our business. No matter who you are or what your skillset is, we’ll give you the training and support you need to achieve whatever you put your mind to.

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.

At BDO, the IT Vendor & Workforce team forms part of the wider IT Governance Team in the IT Department. Vendor & Workforce are responsible for the methods and practices around all IT vendors, including resource augmentation partners.

As an IT Vendor & Workforce Analyst, you will support the smooth operation and quality assurance of our vendor management framework as well as all IT Workforce related activities. You will play an important role in ensuring activities are streamlined and efficient and work across team and department boundaries, engaging with IT, HR, Procurement and external vendors to ensure that processes are working and being monitored appropriately, as well as reported on.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Reporting to the IT Workforce Manager and working with them to ensure robust vendor assurance across BDO's IT vendors; this will include liaising with key internal stakeholders and vendors to carry out assurance activities that ensure we’re governing vendor relationships according to our framework and contractual obligations.
• Owning and monitoring a vendor segmentation tool to help determine the level of governance needed for our IT vendors against the defined framework.
• Liaising with vendors about governance of the relationship and reporting needs, assigning tasks and monitoring completion in our external collaboration tool (Global Portal).
• Assembling and distributing IT Workforce & Vendor reporting and dashboards for the IT Workforce Manager.
• Producing documentation related to vendor assurance activities, communicating findings clearly to key stakeholders and any key committees or boards.
• Maintaining any IT Workforce or Vendor related guidance documentation and frameworks, ensuring they support and reflect any changes to policies or procedures.
• Working alongside hiring managers on onboarding resource augmentation staff or teams.

You’ll be someone with:

• Experience in a vendor, workforce or talent management related role, including working knowledge of contracts.
• Good working knowledge of IT governance and control frameworks and standards, which could include Information Security, Data Governance, GDPR, DORA, ISO27001 and risk management principles.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse alternative solutions to issues and problems, drive improvements and take charge of initiatives.
• Previous knowledge of IT processes and working within an IT team.

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 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.

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 for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, 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.