Scale Ups Director, Consulting

Position: Scale Ups Director, Consulting (Permanent)
Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate today’s changing world.

Our clients are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our Scale Ups Consulting team supports ambitious, high growth businesses as they navigate the challenges of rapid expansion. We work with founders, entrepreneurs and fast growth companies to help them scale sustainably, improve their operations, and prepare for the next stage of their journey. By combining deep commercial insight with practical tools and hands on support, we help clients unlock opportunities and overcome the obstacles that come with growth.
You’ll join a team that thrives on curiosity, problem solving and partnership. You will build trusted relationships within the Scottish market, working closely with high potential businesses and connecting them with expertise from across Consulting and the wider firm. This is a varied and fast moving environment that calls for initiative, resilience and an appetite for helping clients realise their ambitions.

Our clients 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 clients and building long-lasting relationships.

Overview

We’ll help you succeed

Clients rely on us because we take the time to understand how their business works and what they want to achieve. You will play a key role in developing these long term client relationships, shaping conversations, and guiding businesses through change.
You’ll work proactively and independently, while collaborating closely with senior leaders across Consulting. You’ll communicate confidently with Partners, Directors and client stakeholders at all levels to ensure we deliver impactful support.

You’ll also spot opportunities to enhance our services and bring new ideas forward — helping us strengthen Scale Ups Consulting across Scotland and the wider UK.

Role Requirements

A strong understanding of challenges businesses face and practical solutions that can be deployed to unlock those barriers

• Excellent communication skills with the confidence to engage senior leaders and business owners

• The ability to analyse and understand complex business challenges and provide practical, commercially grounded solutions

• Experience that commands respect in the scale up or broader business community

• Chartered accountant status is not required, but need to be financially numerate

• Commercially savvy and able to demonstrate the ability to win, sustain and grow client relationships

• A proactive, collaborative working style with the ability to influence, motivate and support others

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 everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task in 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.

We can provide the best support for our clients and people when we’re working side by side. 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 our clients and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s…