Job Description
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
The Quality and Risk Management team oversee a number of our essential teams; Advisory & Compliance, our Chief Information Security Office (CISO) and our Legal team. Together, they are responsible for the training, policies and guidance, which help to ensure we operate effectively within a heavily-regulated profession. Friendly and supportive, you'll have lots of opportunities to learn and collaborate as part of this team. You'll provide leadership, guidance and tools to help our partners and staff to manage quality and risk to ensure we continue to provide our clients with high quality accountancy and business services. It's a full-on role, with lots of responsibility, making significant decisions on a daily basis. Sound like your kind of challenge?
We'll help you succeed
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.
You'll be someone who can work pro-actively, managing your own tasks, but you'll also be confident collaborating with others, communicating regularly with senior managers, Directors, and BDO's Partners to enable us to serve our clients effectively. You'll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to our clients.
The Economic Crime Group (ECG) is headed by BDO's MLRO. Under the direction of the MLRO, who is a member of the firm's Leadership Team, the ECG provides leadership, policy and guidance to ensure partners and staff comply with the firm's Anti-Money Laundering obligations as well as other economic crime-related legislation. The group is comprised of two partners and eight members of staff. BDO LLP works with a large, multinational client base across a variety of audit, tax and advisory services. The ECG is required to respond to issues that arise across all these workstreams. You will interact with senior members of the firm both in the UK and, increasingly, globally and will provide an insight into the functioning of a large professional services firm.
You'll be someone with:
- Proven Economic Crime experience within a bank, professional services, regulatory or law enforcement role
- An AML qualification (ACAMs/ICA or equivalent) is strongly preferred as is a background in accounting, law, tax or finance.
- A good awareness of other relevant legislation e.g., the UK Bribery Act, Failure to Prevent Facilitation of Tax Evasion, Sanctions and the ability to advise senior members of the firm accordingly;
- Strong written and verbal communication skills coupled with strong interpersonal skills. The ability to articulate complex issues clearly and credibly to a range of audiences
- The ability to develop ideas, challenging the status quo as appropriate and consult with others to produce viable solutions.
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 people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we'll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you'll never stop learning at BDO.
We're looking forward to the future
At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.
Our success is powered by our people, which is why we're always finding new ways to invest in them. Across 17 UK locations, we are 7,000 unique minds coming together to help our clients reach their ambitions.
We've got a clear purpose, and we're confident in our future, because we're adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.
