Workplace Services and Transition Assistant Manager (2 year FTC)

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

Supporting all of our BDO offices, our Property and Facilities team provides everything we need to guarantee our people a safe, efficient, and environmentally-friendly workplace. They ensure that all of our offices use the latest systems and services, enabling seamless collaboration and consistency across our firm. They play a key role in helping us to evolve – in terms of hardware and infrastructure – and they have a uniquely tangible effect on the offices they work with. As part of this forward-thinking and collaborative team, you’ll travel to our offices across the UK to make sure BDO is a brilliant place to work - for your colleagues and for you.

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 pro-actively 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.

This role is focused on supporting the delivery and evolution of Workplace Services across Baker Street and M Building during a period of workplace transition and organisational change. Working closely with the Workplace Services & Facilities Manager, you will help ensure workplace operations run efficiently, compliantly and in line with business needs, while supporting the successful implementation of new workplace environments, services and ways of working.

You will act as a key operational link between both locations, building strong relationships with internal stakeholders, service partners, landlords and colleagues. The role involves coordinating workplace readiness and mobilisation activities, supporting workplace transitions, driving service adoption and acting as a visible on-site point of contact to help colleagues adapt to changes and maintain a positive workplace experience.

Alongside day-to-day operational support, you will identify and address service issues, operational risks and improvement opportunities to enhance workplace performance and customer experience. You will also support supplier and contractor management, compliance activities, financial administration and the maintenance of key documentation and records, ensuring services are delivered to agreed standards and regulatory requirements.

As part of the wider Property Team, you will contribute to service continuity across both sites, providing on-site support where required and collaborating with colleagues to achieve departmental objectives. The role offers broad exposure to workplace operations, stakeholder management, compliance, supplier performance and workplace transformation initiatives.

You’ll be someone with:

• IOSH Qualified or equivalent
• First Aid/Fire Warden desirable (training can be provided)
• Knowledge of SFG 20
• Knowledge of CIBSE
• Competent with Microsoft Office; Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Sharepoint
• Able to use initiative and work under pressure with accuracy and focus
• Good communication skills, both verbal and written
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Proven planning and prioritising skills
• Able to demonstrate problem solving skills
• H & S and Environmental awareness

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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