Audit Quality Senior Manager – Audit Centre of Excellence, BDO, London, UK

Posted on: Jun.24.2022

BDO UK provides tax, audit and assurance, advisory and business outsourcing services. 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.

Our partners and staff are specialists in their fields and have a proactive, flexible approach to helping clients overcoming the challenges they face. We aim to be as innovative and entrepreneurial as our clients. Our approach and expertise are what help us deliver exceptional client service. 95% of our clients would recommend us.

We operate from 17 locations across the UK, covering all major business centres. We employ 6,500 people who are encouraged to bring their best selves to work; taking responsibility for their work and their relationships with clients. All our people share core values that underpin both our culture and the value that we bring to our clients. Our values are also reflected in continued focus on ESG.

Our firm is distinctive and we want to preserve and build on the strengths of our culture and the characteristics that make us both successful and different. We look for people from all kinds of backgrounds who share these same qualities.

BDO LLP is a key member of the BDO global network of public accounting, tax and advisory firms. The firms have representation in 164 countries, with 97,000 people working out of over 1,726 offices worldwide. That’s BDO and we are proud to be part of it. Being part of an integrated network of firms across the world provides us with myriad opportunities for success.


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

The newly created Centre of Excellence (CoE) is a key part of our focus on the audit of revenue and other critical areas within our Audit Quality Plan. As a forward-thinking team, the CoE leads the continued development of firm-wide and sector specific tools and solutions, methodology and guidance. The CoE supports engagement teams for targeted large and complex audits reviewing the audit strategy and execution. Audit of revenue is the current focus with plans to expand to other critical audit areas as the CoE evolves. The CoE also provides support during external regulatory reviews and collaborates with our wider audit quality support functions to drive audit quality.

Within the last year, we have increased our audit headcount by more than 250 people (14%), invested heavily in new partners, and commenced a significant investment programme in our Audit Quality Team and Technical Standards Group (TSG). Due to this continued investment, we are recruiting for a Senior Manager within our CoE.

This is an opportunity for a talented and ambitious Senior Manager to join the firm in an exciting period and help to shape the role and team.
• You will report into a Director within the CoE and contribute to the development of, innovative Data Analytics tools and solutions, methodology and guidance for the audit of revenue and other key audit areas providing valuable support to engagement teams.
• You will be responsible for undertaking file reviews on live audits to drive audit quality, whilst coaching and training engagement teams throughout the process.
• You will also assist the regulatory team, in conjunction with a CoE Director, during external AQR reviews.
When you join us, we’ll make your growth our priority. If you can demonstrate the following skills, we can help you go far. We’re looking for someone with
• strong knowledge of substantive and controls-based audit strategies in the audit of revenue and other key audit areas.
• experience using Data Analytics procedures on engagements or providing methodology and interpretation support to audit teams in a central role
• experience undertaking audit file reviews, either in a regulatory capacity or within practice
The role requires strong understanding and practical experience of the regulatory environment, high levels of technical audit expertise and knowledge.
Excellent communication skills, the ability to challenge engagement teams effectively and a passion for coaching are essential.

At BDO, we believe that when our people feel valued and rewarded, their potential is unlimited. We offer highly competitive starting salaries and review renumeration packages regularly to ensure that our pay always positively reflects performance. As well offering support with tuition and professional qualifications, we also provide the following benefits, as standard:
• 28 days’ holiday;
• access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions;
• life assurance cover;
• and income protection insurance.
That’s not all. We understand that everyone is different so, we offer a range of voluntary benefits to suit every lifestyle. Our flexible benefits platform, Flexcel, means our people can choose from a range of tax efficient options to design a benefit package that best suits them. Through Flexcel, they can:
• buy up to ten days’ extra holiday;
• add on private medical, personal accident, dental insurance or travel insurance;
• enrol in our Bike to Work scheme;
• enjoy discounts dining, and gyms;
• receive an interest free season ticket loan or interest free graduate loan;
• take an online health assessment and utilise our employee assistance programme.

At BDO, we’re big enough to make the difference and collaborative enough to never lose sight of where we’re going. We know that it’s our people that make our success possible. Across our 17 UK locations, more than 6,000 of them work together to provide tax, audit, assurance and a range of advisory services that help our clients achieve their ambitious goals. Together, they’re fuelling Britain’s economic engine. Behind every complex client challenge and every untapped innovation, they’re there: ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to invest in our people. That means providing them with an environment where they can grow, learn, laugh and feel respected, at all times.
Are you ready to join them?