Internal Communications Executive

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 Communications and Corporate Affairs team strives to be a gold-standard team, enabling purpose-led conversations, true to our character. Reporting directly to the Leadership Team, the team advises the firm on external and Internal Communications programmes. This includes a communications programme for our Managing Partner, strategic announcements, PR campaigns and Internal Communications campaigns to drive behaviour change. Because we know that great ideas can come from anywhere, you can be sure you’ll be heard and have the chance to make a real impact. You'll be supported to build your career, but also to be yourself in the office. You’ll be rewarded with a great work-life balance and a career with real purpose.

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.

We are looking for an Internal Communications (IC) Executive to deliver our IC programmes for our Audit and Tax Business Streams. You will work closely with the IC Stream Leads for Audit and Tax as well as the central team to co-ordinate any communications activity.
This role would support the communications delivery by sharing content through channels including Intranet, Viva Engage (previously known as Yammer), Poppulo newsletters, Stream videos and various events. You will be trained in our BDO Communications approach and how to use our IC channels.

In this role you’ll:

• Ensure that all stream communications align with the firm’s vision, strategy, and internal engagement
• Issue email newsletters and bulletins to Tax and Audit
• Create and implement Viva Engage campaigns
• Manage the plan for digital campaigns within various offices
• Supporting with events for example townhalls, listening forums and panel discussions
• Understand the impact of IC communications activity aligned with
• Respond at speed to emerging communications needs as well as tactical demands and ensure key stakeholders are informed of activity, progress, challenges, and results
• Build a network of key stakeholders across the team and firm and ensure they are informed of activity, progress, challenges, and results
• Collate data and update our metrics dashboard on a regular basis. Analyse metrics and develop insights which feed into regular reporting
• Be proactive and help share knowledge and best practice across stream teams and firmwide team
• Be an ambassador for the IC team.

You’ll be someone with:

• A want to operating in a fast-paced team and is adaptable to work across a number of projects simultaneously
• Commitment to ongoing learning and curious to develop new or existing skills or learn about new (digital) channel opportunities
• A passion for high-quality, effective and creative communications that drive behaviour change and/or educate the audience
• An ability to distil complex information into engaging copy for a variety of different audiences
• Experience of communications technologies and channels (for example, SharePoint, Viva Engage, Poppulo and Microsoft tools including PowerPoint)
• Good written and verbal communications skills, with excellent copywriting, copy editing and proofreading skills
• Initiative in drafting first communications and starting new projects
• Attention to detail, especially when juggling a high volume of work
• Confidence who can be trusted to ‘get stuff done’ and build their own relationships with key stakeholders
• Flexibility in times of ambiguity or conflicting deadlines.

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.

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