Company Secretarial Manager

3 weeks ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom BDO Full time
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 broaden your horizons

The Business Services and Outsourcing team are essential to meeting our clients' evolving requirements. As well as delivering long-term, sustainable value to businesses by providing a range of solutions such as accounting, payroll and compliance services, they also play a key role in tying together many of our services across BDO both domestically and internationally. By building deep and meaningful relationships with a range of clients from ambitious entrepreneurial SMEs to large multi-national groups, our BS&O team don't just advise on their specific business challenges, they open doors for other teams to provide our firm's wider service offering. To succeed in this agile environment, you'll need to demonstrate excellent problem-solving skills and initiative. In return, you'll have the opportunity for progression, and the chance to develop in one of the industry's most exciting and varied roles.

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.

Your opportunity to join the Business Services and Outsourcing (BSO") team in Guildford, providing company secretarial support to clients of BDO's Southern Region, working closely with the other BSO managers, along with local tax and audit teams. There will also be a proportion of work received from other regions, including London, and enquiries from network offices around the world regarding inward investment opportunities.

As a Company Secretarial Manager you will have responsibility for advising staff on all aspects of company secretarial work, undertaking advisory work for clients, undertaking compliance work as necessary and supervising junior staff. You will also liaise with, and support, company secretarial managers and staff in other offices as necessary. You will take responsibility for all aspects of service delivery from client take on to completion of a job, ensuring that all assignments are delivered to a high quality and within agreed timescales, reporting directly to the Southern Region BSO partner.

Another key aspect of the role will be taking responsibility for proactively contributing to the management of all company secretarial business development activity. This will include preparing pricing for new opportunities, production of proposals and collaborating on the day-to-day management of the pipeline of opportunities.

In addition to client facing work and business development activity you will also work to provide support to the wider company secretarial team on issues including resourcing, coaching and feedback to more junior members of staff, ensuring compliance with the stream's policies and procedures and the firm's risk management procedures.

You'll be someone with:
  • Graduate, associate or fellow of the Chartered Governance Institute (formerly ICSA).
  • Experience in a managerial position in a professional firm, listed PLC or dedicated company secretarial provider.
  • Experience of using Diligent Entities (formerly Blueprint) company secretarial software.
  • Ability to communicate and work with BDO staff at all levels in the UK and around the world along with directors of client companies and their professional advisers.
Desirable
  • Some familiarity with financial statements.
  • Business development experience - ability to contribute to the identification and conversion of opportunities to sell work.
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.

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.

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 the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, 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 you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve 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.

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