Global Business Services Director

Overview

Join a high-performing, fast-growing team delivering outsourced accounting, payroll, and compliance services to leading clients across technology, life sciences, real estate, and financial services. As a Director in our Global Business Services (GBS) team, you'll shape strategy, oversee a diverse client portfolio, and drive operational excellence.

This role offers the best of both worlds-practice and industry-alongside career variety, sector specialism, and the flexibility to manage your time through BDO's agile working framework. You'll collaborate with senior leadership to grow the business, challenge strategic thinking, and deliver impactful change.

We're looking for someone with

• ACA / ACCA qualified or equivalent
• Significant experience of delivering international accounting projects with operations in different countries using, or within, a shared service centre
• Proven experience in managing a wide portfolio of concurrent projects and project teams within a project management framework
• Managing and developing staff i.e. coordinating staff projects, mentoring, counselling, appraising and recruiting
• Experience in delivering business development activities

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.

We can provide the best support for our clients and people when we're working side by side. 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'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 them. Across 17 UK locations, we are 6,500 unique minds coming together to help our clients reach 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.