Assistant Manager Internal Audit - Risk Advisory Services

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 Assistant Manager within our Risk Advisory Services (RAS) team, you will play a key role in delivering high‑quality internal audit and advisory engagements for a diverse range of clients. Typically, you'll spend around 50% of your time on management activities—such as engagement planning, portfolio oversight and project management—and 50% leading audits and undertaking specialist assignments. You'll work closely with Managers, Senior Managers, Directors and Partners, building trusted client relationship. Alongside this, you will support the development of team members and continue to build your technical capability, professional judgement and leadership skills

You’ll be someone with

• Relevant experience in internal audit or equivalent risk and assurance work, with involvement in planning, delivering and reviewing audit or advisory engagements. 

• Able to think critically about risks and controls, to contribute ideas to enhance audit quality/ways of working. Challenging when necessary

• Experience in risk management, internal audit or systems / controls testing, with the ability to apply this knowledge pragmatically across different client environments. 

• A recognised professional qualification, or working towards one (e.g. CIA / CMIIA / MIIA, CCAB or equivalent).  
• Good organisational, communication and time‑management skills, with the ability to manage multiple assignments and contribute to the delivery of a small portfolio of client engagements

• A collaborative and development‑focused approach, with an interest in supporting and coaching junior team members,
• flexibility to travel to client sites as required, and an interest in using data analytics or emerging AI‑enabled audit techniques. 

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.