Audit Learning & Development - Learning & Development Experienced Manager / Senior Manager Development - BDO UK LLP : Job Details

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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 leading them. 

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Learning and Development (L&D) is a key enabler of our strategy as an Audit Stream and critical to our success. It supports our ability to attract, develop and retain talented people who take pride in their work and successfully deliver for our business. Effective L&D underpins quality and productivity by supporting our people to develop the necessary knowledge and skills to perform their work, helping them reach their personal and professional potential.  We have an exciting opportunity for an Experienced Manager / Senior Manager or equivalent to join our Learning Development team. The role would suit a talented, high performing and ambitious individual who is keen not only to support delivery on our current curriculum and wider L&D initiatives but also to help shape the L&D strategy of the future during an exciting growth phase for the team. This role reports to the Development and Monitoring Lead (DAM). 

The Learning Development team (LD) is a team of learning designers, responsible for designing and curating or creating the Audit programme content which is available for the business. The aim is to develop the most impactful, innovative solutions to meet learner needs and deliver clear business outcomes. Within the team, there are a number of technical and non-technical specialists who are responsible for the main authoring activities within the team. 

Lead authors work with the Business Partnering team (BP) and Audit Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to understanding the business objectives for a particular learning need and then translate those into key learning objectives and design learning interventions that meet these needs effectively. This includes the use of learning design methodologies, innovation, and insights to author complex content. They also support the Learning Implementation team (LI) with project management activity and are also expected to be involved in facilitation of their programmes where appropriate. 

The successful candidate will not only lead on a portfolio of programmes / learning, but will also have wider team responsibilities, including but not limited to reviews of content developed by other designers, coaching and upskilling junior team members, driving forward team-wide workstreams and supporting key initiatives for Audit Stream L&D such as our new Learning Library and Learning Culture programmes.  

The successful candidate can be based anywhere in the UK. Travel to the London office, where Audit Stream L&D is based, as well as some travel to other offices and external venues, will be required. Certain support on or delivery of courses will require residential stays. 

In this role you’llbe responsible for: 

• Development of impactful, innovative content that meets learner needs and delivers clear business outcomes 

• Review of content written by other members of the LDteam (such as authors, design secondees and instructional designers) to maintain quality control of content, ensure learning objectives have been met, challenge learning efficacy and innovation and drive consistency, whilst always meeting business needs 

• Develop and maintain relevant business relationships that are integral to programmatic design such as content SMEs 

• Supporting the delivery of programmes with onsite project management and/or facilitation support as appropriate 

• Responsible for the design, curation or creation of both technical and non-technical content as part of the Learning Development team (under the direction of the DAM) 

• Support the wider L&D team with development, delivery and evaluation activities providing coaching and supervision as appropriate / needed, as well as wider strategic initiatives 

• Support the Faculty team with the briefing and training of facilitators and hosts to equip them to be able to deliver learning content 

• Leverage practising audit experience and detailed understanding of accounting and auditing to support the development of relevant learning 

• Direct coaching and upskilling of more junior members of the Development team and helping to build out L&D expertise across the wider team 

• Collaborate effectively with the BP and LI teams to understand learning needs for specific training, and translate those needs into learning objectives and content, as well as develop content that can be successfully and commercially implemented 

• Collaborate with the Innovation and Technology team to enable effective learning design that appropriately leverages innovation and technology as well as the latest design thinking 

Required skills and experience 

• Experienced Manager / Senior Manager (or equivalent) with a background in programme development, both non-technical and audit-technical course content, and preferably with experience of regulatory reporting requirements