Senior Project Manager

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 leading them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

The Operations PMO was created in June 2021 and is responsible for maximising BDOs change investment; helping deliver Change in the most effective and efficient way; track, record and report on expectation, help build change delivery capability across the firm; and bring in teams to help the firm deliver.

Delivering Strategic Value at Pace

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're now looking to recruitment a Senior Project Manager to join our PMO team.

• Initiate and actively manage projects of varying size and complexity with significant strategic and/or commercial impact.
• Work with key senior firm stakeholders to understand strategic outcomes and deliver them
• Day to day management of key projects and creation and maintenance of all associated project documentation including business cases, project plans, risks and issues, actions, decisions, steering committee preparation.
• Helping plan and design outcome focused projects, monitoring progress against agreed parameters, identifying key risks, resolving issues and initiating timely corrective action
• Deliver key activities
• Enabling project Sponsors to focus on setting direction, providing subject matter expertise input, building advocacy and removing blockers.
• Operating within the firm's prescribed project delivery standards, known as the 'Change Minimum Standards.'

• Working with key stakeholder across the business to successfully deliver project outcomes at pace
• Understanding the inflight and upcoming changes in project business requirements(s)
• Day to day management of the project(s)
• Being the voice of business into the project(s)
• Plan and design ‘outcome focused’ projects, monitoring progress against agreed parameters, identifying key risks, resolving issues and initiating timely corrective action
• Define the project's governance framework
  
  Ensuring underlying work streams are coordinated
• Resolving risks and issues
• Supporting individuals on the project(s)
• Ensuring project integrity and coherence
• Monitoring project(s) budget, monitoring expenditure etc.
• Help appoint additional staff into the project and underlying work streams / activities
• Liaison with design authority / architecture / risk / dependent projects and product teams / suppliers
• Ensuring outputs meet requirements within time, quality, cost constraints (and timely escalation of risks if not)
• Ensuring efficiency of resources
• Liaise with 3rd parties / drafting work packages as required
• Identifying and initiating additional activities wherever gaps exist
• Regular reporting to your sponsor and other governance forums
• Effective stakeholder engagement (in liaison with sponsors)
• Effective handover to business operations
• Champion Change Minimum Standards
• Actively support assurance activities

You’ll be someone with:

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills (incl. presentation skills)
• Take personal responsibility for own decision and actions and those of others
• Project Planning (incl. dependency and capacity management)
• Project Delivery /Work package Oversight
• Strong communications and risk/issue management skills
• Support, train, mentor and advise others in…