Shared Service Centre Placement

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Shared Service Centre Placement

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.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Joining BDO’s Shared Service Centre (SSC) now means being part of an exciting period of growth and change in one of our key business units. We work across every part of BDO, specialising in services that impact every client and help create real value by doing them efficiently and effectively. If you’re currently an undergraduate looking for a placement year where you’ll be doing real work at centre of a leading financial services company, this could be for you.

Every day, you’ll work with managers who will help you build the skills you need to solve the complex challenges we’re presented with. Alongside extensive training, you’ll have the opportunity to build out your CV working on innovative services that are essential for accounting and finance for leading national and international clients. This opportunity is for a University Placement year on a 13 month Fixed Term Contract commencing in June 2021. The teams currently offering placement are:

• Accounts: Support regional client facing audit teams by preparing statutory accounts from trial balance under FRS 102, FRS 102 section 1a and FRS 101 while working extensively with Caseware accounting software and other workflow tools.
• Audit: Supporting the client facing audit teams with multiple aspects of the audit process including audit set up, report generation, derivative valuation and casting.
• Tax: Completing non-complex personal and corporate tax returns for client facing teams and work extensively with BDO’s tax software and workflow tools.
• Business Process Outsourcing (BPO): Help manage our clients day to day bookkeeping transactions, VAT returns and monthly management accounts through the use of cloud based accounting technology.
• Business Support: Support across essential Project delivery, Finance, KPI support and Recruitment requests.
• Business Recovery Cashiers: Process and reconcile of Business Restructuring Insolvency cases.
• Compliance: Carry out conflicts of interest checks at both national and international levels for new clients at BDO.
• Data Analytics: Support our Audit clients using BDO’s data analytics tool (BDO Advantage).
• Know your Client: Conduct research, due diligence and identity checks on individuals and entities, ensuring regulatory compliance is adhered to.

We’ll help you succeed

When you join us, we’ll make your growth our priority. If you can demonstrate the following skills, we can help you go far. We’re looking bright and ambitious minds with:

• Competent IT skills including knowledge of MS Office products
• Well presented with strong professional written and verbal communication skills
• Good time management, organisational skills and able to prioritise effectively
• Capable of using own initiative and taking a flexible approach when required

We’re in it together

At BDO, we believe that when our people feel valued and rewarded, their potential is unlimited. We offer highly competitive starting salaries and review renumeration packages regularly to ensure that our pay always positively reflects performance. As well offering support with tuition and professional qualifications, we also provide the following benefits, as standard:

• 25 days’ holiday;
• access to a personal pension scheme, with matched employer contributions;
• life assurance cover;
• and income protection insurance.

It’s our people that make our growth possible. Behind every complex client challenge are ambitious individuals, from all over the world, working together to ensure we can offer our clients the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. That’s why we continue to invest in inclusion and wellbeing. That means providing our people with an environment where they can grow, learn, laugh and feel respected, at all times. Together, we’re working to create a company where everyone can thrive.

Since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the UK, Liverpool SSC have been a fully virtual operation. Our firms’ guidance is constantly being updated to reflect Government policy and overall what that means for us at BDO. This may well mean a return to the Liverpool office during 2021 however the timing and mechanics of this are currently unknown. The firm do have extensive resources available which are extremely helpful in ensuring that people are able to work from home effectively.

About BDO

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we’re big enough to make the difference and collaborative enough to never lose sight of where we’re going. We know that it’s our people that make our success possible. Across our 17 UK locations, more than 5,000 of them work together to provide tax, audit, assurance and a range of advisory services that help our clients achieve their ambitious goals. Together, they’re fuelling Britain’s economic engine. Behind every complex client challenge and every untapped innovation, they’re there: ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. That’s why we’re always looking for ways to invest in our people. That means providing them with an environment where they can grow, learn, laugh and feel respected, at all times.

The SSC work across all of these services to provide the foundations they need to deliver exceptional quality. You can play a key role in making it happen from day one of your placement.

Are you ready to join them?

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