Ideas | People | Trust
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.
We’ll broaden your horizons
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.
We’ll help you succeed
As Financial Reporting (‘FR’) Advisory Director based in Reading you will be the FR Advisory Regional Leader for the region, sharing ownership and collaborating with the local regional Partner to grow the region’s share of national FR Advisory revenues.
You will also be responsible for acting as the technical lead for the regional team, leading local and national advisory projects, managing client relationships and contributing to the development and growth of a leading National FR Advisory practice. Locally you will also support your fellow Directors as well as the region’s Partners with practice management.
An individual’s success in this role will depend on market-relevant and solution-specific knowledge as well as an ability both to develop innovative and market-relevant solutions, and to collaborate with stakeholders to drive adoption.
Our national Financial Reporting team is dedicated to supporting CFOs and finance teams fulfil their ultimate score keeping, stewardship, and business partnering roles, so they can be successful in fostering trust and confidence in the reporting that underpins complex and critical business and investment decisions.
We understand the pressures and challenges that organisations face and take away the strain of meeting ad hoc, recurring and emerging accounting, financial reporting requirements.
A FR Advisory Director shares ownership and collaborates with regional Partners to grow their region’s share of FR Advisory revenues towards the targets set within the National FR Advisory plan.
You’ll be someone with:
1. ACA or ACCA qualified or equivalent overseas qualification.
2. Extensive working knowledge of UK GAAP and IFRSs, including IFRS 9, 15 and 16.
3. Significant previous experience in a senior role, including delivering financial reporting advisory solutions, statutory accounts preparation or audit services to complex businesses.
4. Proven experience in managing a wide portfolio of concurrent projects and project teams in a project management framework.
5. Proven ability in managing and developing staff i.e. coordinating staff projects, mentoring, counselling, appraising, and recruiting.
Desirable
6. Working knowledge of US GAAP requirements as well as previous experience reconciling IFRS, US and UK GAAP results.
7. Experience with international groups and working with overseas companies.
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.
We’re in it together
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.
We’re looking forward to the future
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.