Personal Assistant

Succeed by shaping what matters

We’re BDO, one of the UK’s largest accountancy and business advisory organisations, helping ambitious businesses, their owners and management teams navigate a changing world.

With circa 8,500 people across the UK and Ireland, backed by a global network spanning 169 countries, there’s lots of knowledge, experience and different thinking to draw on here. But what matters is what you bring to it; your ideas, perspectives - the things you care about getting right.

So, here’s where you come in:

The team you’ll join

Our Business Support team works across BDO, helping to keep the business organised and moving. You'll plan and coordinate activities, support projects and find ways to make things work more efficiently. With plenty of variety, you'll build relationships across the organisation, develop your skills and take responsibility for work that makes a difference to the people around you

The role you’ll have

This role provides comprehensive executive and administrative support to one or two Partners, including senior Partners, and a wider group of managers. Acting as a trusted member of the support team, the position is responsible for managing complex diaries, coordinating meetings and events, arranging extensive travel, and ensuring Partners' time is effectively prioritised. The role also serves as a key point of contact for clients and stakeholders, managing communications, handling confidential information, and acting as a gatekeeper to senior leaders.

The position requires regular interaction with clients, Partners and internal teams, building strong working relationships while delivering an exceptional level of service. Responsibilities include coordinating interviews, supporting marketing activities and events, producing and managing documentation, assisting with tenders and bid submissions, maintaining client records and pipeline information, and responding to enquiries in a professional and timely manner.

Alongside executive support duties, the role contributes to the smooth running of the business through financial and operational administration. This includes managing monthly billing processes, raising invoices, supporting client onboarding and conflict checks, maintaining risk management records, processing expenses, taking meeting minutes, and providing general administrative support to the wider team. The successful individual will be highly organised, proactive and adaptable, with the ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining accuracy, discretion and a strong client focus.

You’ll be someone with

• Strong IT skills, including advanced Microsoft Office capabilities and the ability to quickly learn new systems
• Excellent communication skills with the confidence to build relationships at all levels internally and externally
• Highly organised with strong prioritisation, time management and multitasking abilities
• Proactive, self-motivated and able to work independently while contributing effectively as part of a team
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to manage tasks accurately and meet tight deadlines
• Flexible and adaptable, able to respond positively to changing priorities and business needs
• Demonstrates initiative, discretion and sound judgement when handling confidential or sensitive matters
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to identify issues and drive solutions forward
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of professional services environments and brand standards
• Resilient and confident in following up with senior stakeholders, seeing tasks through to completion and maintaining oversight of multiple priorities and action lists.

You’ll have people around you to learn from, ask questions and share thoughts with, alongside learning programmes to enhance your skillset and digital platforms to ease your work. All of this helps you succeed in achieving those big (and personal) dreams.

How you’ll succeed

You’ll have plenty of ways to develop at BDO; you might build deeper expertise in what you already do, take on something new or simply get better at the things that matter to you.

How and where you work matters too. Our agile working framework is designed around our Better Together approach: bringing more in-person time with clients and teams, creating more opportunities to share ideas, build confidence and develop day-to-day.

Whatever success looks like to you, you won’t be shaping it alone. You’ll have people around you who want you to do well, and plenty of opportunities to make it all count. 

That’s how we’ll all continue to succeed by shaping what matters.

Apply now.

At BDO, we want everyone to feel included, valued and able to succeed. We welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to improving access to opportunities – work we've been recognised for as Company of the Year at the 2026 British Diversity Awards. Because we know different experiences and perspectives make us stronger.

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