People & Culture Manager

About BDO

BDO is the leading mid-tier professional services provider globally. In 2024, our core service lines (Audit & Assurance, Tax, Advisory, and Business Services & Outsourcing) generated annual revenues of over US$15 billion. With a worldwide community of over 119k professionals operating in 166 countries and territories, we’re dedicated to helping our clients navigate complex financial and strategic challenges, aligned to our core purpose ‘People helping people.’

Why join us?

A great place to work

Building a thriving global team is an essential pillar of our bold new vision Global solutions. Driven to be the best. - so it’s no surprise that our offices around the world are regularly recognised with awards and accolades. We’re a people-powered business, with a diverse, dynamic and inclusive international team who are committed to excellence, innovation, and integrity.

Make a difference

We believe that businesses have an economic imperative and an ethical responsibility to contribute towards a more sustainable and equitable world. In 2021, as part of the Net Zero Financial Service Providers Alliance, we pledged to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050 or sooner. In addition, we’re #BDOproud to support thousands of colleagues around the globe who regularly participate in activities to ‘give back’ to the communities in which we operate.

Professional growth

Our collaborative, international environment fosters professional growth and development, to ensure that all our people thrive. We’re committed to transferring and sharing resources, knowledge, skills, and experience across our organisation, and our Global Mobility Programme provides the gateway to a whole world of opportunities.

Position: Global People & Culture Manager

The Global People & Culture Manager is responsible for maximizing the collective potential of the People & Culture community to drive BDO's purpose and provide maximum benefits to member firms as part of the BDO Global organization. This role aims to create an environment where firms share best practices in People & Culture initiatives, inspire one another, and actively engage with the wider P&C community to build a thriving global team.

Key accountabilities

Performance and progress in the following areas will be the priorities for this position:

• Collaborate closely with member firms to achieve Global People & Culture strategic goals and translate them into concrete HR projects and initiatives.
• Strengthen Global People & Culture community engagement by sharing best practices via monthly webcasts and supporting bi-annual summits.
• Re-design and re-structure People & Culture related SharePoint sites to ensure easy navigation and serve as one stop shop for member firms, keeping all People & Culture sites up to date regularly.
• Develop and execute communication strategies that align with the Global People & Culture goals. Create engaging content tailored to each communication channels such as Teams, SharePoint, Yammer, LinkedIn, newsletter etc.
• Supporting firms with inquiries on People & Culture topics, onboard senior People & Culture colleagues from member firms, and engage in community-building activities.
• Maximize the benefit of being part of BDO Global organisation by managing Global Agreements for HR-related external providers, and managing enablement programs for accounts.
• Collaborate on initiatives that support the Global People & Culture strategy.

Qualifications

• Degree in Human Resources or related field
• Experience in international & matrix structure and client facing working environment, able to understand complex organisation structure and work effectively in a diverse and inclusive environment.
• Proven working experience in human resources and demonstrable experience with human resources metrics.
• Experience in managing HR projects from inception to completion.
• Knowledge of HR systems and databases.
• Curious by nature, with a growth mindset and able to learn and adapt.
• Ability to forge a path through ambiguate environment towards a clear direction.
• Proactive and driven to deliver the best outcome.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and able to create sustainable relationships at all levels of the organisation.
• Strong leadership and team player who actively contributes to the development of the team through coaching and knowledge sharing.
• Excellent communication skills in English – spoken and written.
• Good sense of humour especially when under time pressure with competing priorities.

About us

BDO is an international network of independent public accounting, tax and advisory firms ('the BDO network'), which performs professional services under the name of BDO (‘the BDO Member Firms’). BDO is the brand name for the BDO network and for each of the BDO Member Firms.

Service provision within the BDO network is coordinated by Brussels Worldwide Services BV (BWS), a limited liability company incorporated in Belgium with VAT/BTW number BE 0820.820.829, RPR Brussels. Each of BDO International Limited (the governing entity of the BDO network), BWS and BDO Member Firms is a separate legal entity and has no liability for another such entity's acts or omissions. Nothing in the arrangements or rules of the BDO network shall constitute or imply an agency relationship or a partnership between BDO International Limited, BWS and/or the member firms of the BDO network.

More information on BDO can be found on www.bdo.global.

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