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 HELP YOU SUCCEED

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.
We are looking for an experienced programme manager to develop the content of the programmes aligned to our strategic priorities. You will plan and design ‘outcome focused’ programmes from disparate content and stakeholders that enables key projects to be initiated and actively managed. Working with key stakeholders to understand inflight and emerging changes, you will be involved in the day to day management of key programmes being the ‘voice of the business’ into them. You will monitor progress against agreed parameters, identify key risks, resolve issues and initiate timely corrective action

You’ll also:

• Understand the inflight and upcoming changes in key business area(s)
• Plan and design ‘outcome focused’ programmes, monitoring progress against agreed parameters, identify key risks, resolve issues and initiate timely corrective action
• Define the programme’s governance framework (including ‘hooking’ into portfolio governance)
• Ensure underlying projects are coordinated
• Support individuals on the programme
• Ensure programme integrity and coherence
• Monitor programme’s budget, monitoring expenditure etc.
• Help appoint additional staff into the programme and underlying projects / activities
• Liaise with design authority / architecture teams / other IT teams / risk / dependent projects and product teams / suppliers
• Ensure outputs meet requirements within time, quality, cost constraints (and timely escalation of risks if not)
• Ensure efficiency of resources
• Identify, monitor and develop appropriate remedial plans for key project/programme performance (KPIs) and risk (KRIs) metrics.
• Develop and embed ‘right-sized’ change delivery and governance (aligned to portfolio governance) to suit the project and stakeholder needs
• Liaise with 3rd parties / drafting work packages as required
• Identifying and initiate additional activities wherever gaps exist
• Regular report to your sponsor and other governance forums
• Effectively stakeholder engagement (in liaison with sponsors)
• Effectively handover to business operations
• Champion Change Minimum Standards
• Actively support assurance activities

You’ll be someone with:

• Extensive experience of change delivery approaches (e.g. Waterfall, Agile)
• OKR/Benefits tracking experience
• Service management concepts and frameworks an advantage (e.g. ITIL)
• Organisational governance structures and associated relationships
• An understanding of the content of current and emerging portfolio of change and how it adds value
• An understanding of the corporate vision and strategy and the wider industry
• Corporate processes and procedures experience (e.g. Governance, Finance, HR, minimum standards) and associated language / culture
• Experience of Workday HCM, Workday Finance or MSD CMS an advantage
• Experience of a professional services environment an advantage

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.

Please refer the Job description for details