Assistant Manager - Internal Audit

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  

Our Financial Services Advisory practice brings together more than 170 specialists across risk, regulation, governance, assurance and financial modelling, helping clients respond with confidence to an increasingly complex and fast-moving market.  

As part of BDO’s Consulting, Risk and Outsourcing stream, you’ll work with banks, insurers, asset managers, investment firms and other financial services organisations on some of their most important and high-profile challenges. Our expertise spans internal audit, actuarial and prudential advice, economic crime, regulatory compliance, governance, risk management, accounting advisory, financial modelling and quantitative solutions.  

It’s varied, impactful work, delivered by a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team. You’ll work alongside people with deep sector knowledge and regulatory insight, bringing fresh thinking to complex challenges while building your own expertise and experience.  

The role you’ll have  

The Assistant Manager Financial Service Advisory Internal Audit role involves supporting the planning of engagements within the Assets and Wealth team. In this role you will and organise the delivery of the work and sometimes directly lead more complex assignments. You'll manage internal audit internal control and regulatory assignments for Financial Services clients, including planning, organisation of resources and review You'll play an important role in developing and maintaining deep client relationships and development members of the BDO team.

You'll have the opportunity to further develop specialist sub sector, technical and regulatory knowledge and will also have opportunities to work with and support the wider Financial Services Advisory team and its clients.

You'll be someone with

• An Accountancy or internal audit professional qualifications and/or memberships i.e. ICAEW, CIMA, CIIA, ACCA etc or relevant industry qualification.

• Internal audit or regulatory assurance experience working in financial services and ideally with wealth or asset management

• Diverse internal audit or advisory assignments experience and understand internal audit methodology and techniques

• Functional knowledge of the UK regulatory environment with deeper knowledge of asset/wealth management and the risks that they face

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to present concise information

• Sound technical knowledge of financial regulated products and / customer facing

• Strong written / communication skills, ability to influence, lead and engage

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.