The posting
Succeed by shaping what matters
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.
So, here’s where you come in:
The team you’ll join
Risk Advisory Services (RAS) helps organisations understand, manage and respond to risk in an increasingly complex and fast-changing environment. We work with clients across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, providing assurance and advisory services that strengthen governance, improve controls and support better decision-making.
Our team brings together specialists in internal audit, risk management, governance, controls assurance and advisory services. We support organisations of all sizes and at every stage of their journey, helping them navigate operational, financial, regulatory and strategic challenges while delivering their objectives with confidence. Our work spans a diverse range of organisations, from multinational businesses and charities to Local Authorities, NHS Trusts, government bodies and other public sector organisations. This means you could be helping a commercial organisation strengthen its control environment and manage emerging risks, or working with public sector clients to help protect and improve the services communities rely on every day.
We take a collaborative and insight-led approach, combining technology with deep sector expertise to help organisations become stronger, more resilient and better equipped for the future. Through our work, we help clients not only manage risk effectively but also make progress towards their wider ambitions and create lasting value.
The role you’ll have
As an Internal Audit Manager in our Risk Advisory Services (RAS) team, you will be responsible for managing a portfolio of engagements, leading multiple internal audits and specialist assignments in accordance with BDO’s internal audit methodologies, and supporting the development of junior team members across multiple teams.
This role will have a particular focus on supporting clients across a broad range of public sector and not-for-profit organisations, including the NHS, local government, social housing and education. We are therefore looking for someone who brings an understanding of, and genuine interest in, the opportunities and challenges facing organisations delivering essential public services.
You will build strong, trusted client relationships and make a meaningful contribution to the overall success of the team. You will also support Directors and Partners with client delivery and our wider RAS strategy, including marketing, business development and the continued growth of our work across the public sector.
You’ll have the opportunity to work with organisations that have a direct impact on communities and public services. Whether you already have significant public sector experience or are looking to build further on relevant experience gained in another complex environment, we’re interested in people who are passionate about the sector and motivated by helping organisations deliver better outcomes.
You'll be someone with:
- Proven internal audit experience at Manager level, leading audits and advisory engagements for medium to large or complex organisations.
- Experience working with public sector organisations would be highly desirable, particularly within the NHS, local government or the wider health and public services landscape.
- A strong interest in the public sector and an enthusiasm for helping organisations improve governance, risk management, internal controls and the delivery of public services.
- An understanding of the distinctive environment in which public sector organisations operate, such as complex stakeholder relationships, governance and accountability, financial pressures and the need to demonstrate value for money, would be advantageous.
- Experience working with complex clients, which may include public sector, not-for-profit, listed or regulated organisations.
- A relevant accounting or Internal Audit professional qualification, for example ICAEW, CIMA, CIPFA, CIIA or ACCA.
- Strong understanding of risk management, internal control and corporate governance, with the ability to apply this pragmatically across different organisational environments.
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. All of this helps you succeed in achieving those big (and personal) dreams.
How you’ll succeed
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.
How and where you work matters too. 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.
Whatever success looks like to you, you won’t be shaping it alone. You’ll have people around you who want you to do well, and plenty of opportunities to make it all count.
That’s how we’ll all continue to succeed by shaping what matters.
Apply now.
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. Because we know different experiences and perspectives make us stronger.
