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.

• Resolve people issues to deliver commercially pragmatic outcomes, escalating as appropriate.
• Resolve people issues to deliver commercially pragmatic outcomes, escalating as appropriate.
• Take a commercial, considered stance to HR-related risk assessment linking in with the Senior HR Manager and ER team and escalating issues as appropriate.
• Coach PMs and Partners on HR matters to share your knowledge and increase their capability in dealing with people matters
• Advise PMs and Partners on HR policy and process and helping managers to make fair and commercially sound decisions e.g. flexible working requests, absence etc).
• Advise PMs and Partners on broader HR activities such as absence management, performance and talent management and other people related matters.
• Lead cyclic events like salary review, consistency meetings and promotions (e.g. preparing ad hoc reports, attending consistency meetings)
• Actively share knowledge and experience proactively across the team and be recognised as an expert in your business area.

You’ll be someone with:

• Ideally educated to degree level and/or CIPD qualified or working towards completion of CIPD qualification.
• Experience of working within professional services useful but not essential.
• Proven experience of employee relations issues and taking a pragmatic approach to managing them.
• Strong working knowledge of employment legislation and best practice.
• Proven experience as a credible and assertive HR business partner influencing up to Partner level.
• Proven experience of developing effective processes and suggesting new ways of working.
• Comfortable with systems with an ability to make commercially based recommendations based on MI.

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.