Economic Consulting Manager / Assistant Manager

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
Our Advisory team provide a wide variety of services that deliver value-led advice and outcomes. They have an in-depth knowledge of business, industry sectors and markets and understand the constantly changing risks and opportunities at the heart of our clients' affairs. The team work across strategy, operations and improvement as well as at a transactional and defined project level. From technology to risk advisory, they're experts in following through on top-level instructions and resolving the finer details - all in one straight-forward package. When you join them, you'll work on some of the world's most exciting financial operations and business deals, building your experience and expertise alongside the brightest minds in the industry.
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 proactively 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.
Economic Consulting's mission is to provide tangible and lasting value for clients, both by helping businesses succeed through our advice on their key commercial and strategic decisions, as well as through the expert evidence we produce in connection with commercial disputes.
As a Manager or possibly Assistant Manager, you will have begun to develop distinct expertise in an area of economics, are enthusiastic in applying economics to real world problems and are keen to learn more. You will be an integral part of our team, guiding and supervising less experienced colleagues as well as developing our business by contributing to proposals and starting to develop your own BDO internal and external client network. You'll m anage and lead work-streams on large client engagements, or full delivery of smaller projects, including through guiding and supervising less experienced members of the team.
You'll be someone with

• Intellectual curiosity and leadership, an exceptional economist, with a demonstrable ability to devise and deliver bespoke solutions to a diverse set of client problems. You make a conscious effort to further develop your expertise on and outside of client engagements.
• A commercial mindset and you can demonstrate you understand the Economic Consulting business model and thrive in a deadline driven business-to-business client service environment.
• Excellent technical skills in modelling and analytical skills, as well as good presentation and writing skills.
• Great communication skills, with a track record of supporting delivery of client engagements within time and budget constraints, without compromising the quality of the output or advice. You have experience in working across multiple concurrent projects and managing significant workstreams in large scale projects or full smaller scale projects.
• Excellent client relationship skills and to gain clients' trust and develop meaningful relationships with them through your performance and focus on their needs.
• Collaborative and positively contribute to team spirit by bringing energy and enthusiasm to facilitate and promote a positive working environment. You challenge current practice to drive improvements. You support others through training, advice and feedback to recognise success and enable them to develop.
• A post graduate degree in a relevant economics field, or significant equivalent experience and professional learning following a graduate degree.

You'll be able to be yourself; we'll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We're committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.
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.