Business analyst in audit

We’re BDO, one of the UK’s largest accountancy and business advisory organisations, helping ambitious businesses, their owners and management teams navigate a changing world. With circa 8,500 people across the UK and Ireland, backed by a global network spanning 169 countries, there’s lots of knowledge, experience and different thinking to draw on here. But what matters is what you bring to it; your ideas, perspectives - the things you care about getting right.

• Play a leading role in delivering complex business change initiatives, helping shape solutions that deliver strategic, operational, and commercial value.
• Provide leadership and guidance to Business Analysts and team members, sharing knowledge and promoting best practice
• Build trusting relations with business stakeholders to enable the translation of their business strategies and build growth plans into BA delivery pipeline.
• Establish yourself as a trusted partner to the business by championing BA best practices to help deliver the change agendas
• Model business structures, systems, and processes in light of proposed changes
• Design test scenarios and test scripts and support the business in conducting adequate regression and user acceptance testing.
• Promote good working relationships and respond quickly to deal with conflict or breakdowns in communication.
• Negotiate effectively to achieve agreed courses of action with stakeholders whilst maintaining their buy-in.
• Drive and support business users to follow good governance practice such as regular review of issues, risks and dependencies.
• Facilitate meetings incorporating business, technology and user groups to gather information and requirements.
• Gather data to enable understanding of business processes, related barriers, risks and needs.
• Use questioning techniques to challenge requests if the scope, benefits and proposed deliverables are unclear.
• Support the growth of the Business Analysis function through actively contributing to building the core components of the BA centre of Excellence

• Strong analytical and interpersonal skills
• Natural curiosity to understand the business challenges and help solve them through the engagement of sound change practices
• Experience of interpreting business requests and translating them to requirements
• Experience of writing requirements specifications
• Demonstrable evidence of gathering, analysing and documenting business processes using BMPN techniques
• Experience in outcome driven analysis skills and techniques
• Experience in use of data insights to drive sound recommendations
• Experience in Agile BA practices
• The ability to present to an audience in both formal and informal situations
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal including active listening
• Будет плюсом: Experience in Big 4 professional services firms preferably in Accountancy and Audit; Experience in Lean Six Sigma Business Process Improvement methodologies

• You’ll have people around you to learn from, ask questions and share thoughts with, alongside learning programmes to enhance your skillset and digital platforms to ease your work.
• You’ll have plenty of ways to develop at BDO; you might build deeper expertise in what you already do, take on something new or simply get better at the things that matter to you.
• Our agile working framework is designed around our Better Together approach: bringing more in-person time with clients and teams, creating more opportunities to share ideas, build confidence and develop day-to-day.
• At BDO, we want everyone to feel included, valued and able to succeed. We welcome people from all backgrounds and are committed to improving access to opportunities – work we've been recognised for as Company of the Year at the 2026 British Diversity Awards.