Industrial Placement Programme (Jul 2024)

About BDO

BDO or Binder Dijker Otte is an international network of public accounting, tax, consulting, and business advisory firms that provide professional services under the name of BDO. BDO is the fifth largest accounting network globally.

Your Role

From the first business meeting to that well-earned promotion, and everything in between. Your career is your adventure, and it all starts here at BDO. 

You’ll expand your portfolio of skills and experience a breadth of opportunities across one of four business streams:

• Tax
  • Tax is a rewarding area for diverse personalities, whether you enjoy untangling complex technical details, working with technology, relish connecting with and helping brilliant people, or love solving problems in new and unique ways.  
• Audit
  • Audit is about exploring whether an organisation’s financial position is true, fair and accurate. That means you’ll spend every day working as part of a close-knit team, working with individuals at all levels to understand their financial performance, business systems, culture and risks. 
• Advisory
  • No two days are ever the same in Advisory. You could be working on anything from due diligence for an organisation looking to buy a new business, to helping a company restructure in times of financial difficulty. 
• Shared Service Centre
  • Joining BDO’s Shared Service Centre (SSC) means being part of an exciting period of growth and change in one of their key business areas. You could work across every part of BDO, specialising in services that impact every client and help create real value by doing them efficiently and effectively. As well as assisting on large-scale operations, beyond the capacity of a core specialist team, you’ll provide the unparalleled expertise to keep the firm moving forward. 

Training, Development & Rotations

BDO Life supports the development of its employees through training programs and other learning opportunities that reinforce their current level of competencies, professionalism, and work effectiveness. BDO also offers two-year rotations for client-facing professionals with the National Accounting, SEC, Audit, and Tax departments.

Compensation & Benefits

BDO offers competitive salaries, benefits, and a working environment where you’re valued as part of the team. Typically the pay for the position ranges from Salary £ 23,400 - £ 28,800 per annum along with the following benefits:

• Compensation and Health-Related Insurance
• Annual Leave and Special Leave
• The flexibility of Work Arrangement
• Approved Training Employer
• Company Social Events

Career Progression

At BDO, in a year that will stretch your experience beyond the classroom, early responsibility and purpose will be yours from the get-go. Their 12-month Industrial Placement Programme starts in September and could lead to an offer of a graduate role. Working with a variety of companies and surrounded by talented minds who will help you succeed, you’ll have the chance to contribute to a range of exciting projects as part of an ambitious team. 

Work-life Balance

Working at BDO is a lifetime experience, especially for Article Assistants. BDO is also committed to your well-being. Agile working gives you flexibility around how you work to achieve the best quality outcomes for you, your team and the firm.

Company Culture

BDO is founded on the culture that people and hence relationship matters. When asked, who they are and how they are different from their closest competitors, people who know them are known to respond that “BDO is the ‘People’ firm”. BDO is founded on the culture that people and hence, relationships matter. At its core, BDO is driven towards helping people achieve their dreams because the business is powered by people and relationships.

About You

BDO wants you to thrive in a warm and welcoming culture where you can be yourself. The company is looking for: 

• A second-year undergraduate university student on a four-year degree completing a work placement in your third year 
• A predicted 2:2 degree in any discipline 
• Three A-levels or equivalent at A* to C excluding General Studies and Extended Projects (obtained or predicted)  
• A 9 – 4 in Maths and English at GCSE or equivalent (we will also consider qualifications from outside the UK) 

How to Apply

To apply for this role, click on the "Apply on employer site" button on this page and start applying based on your choice of start date of the programme.

Sources

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• BDO.co.uk