Senior Executive 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 a Senior Executive in our Risk Advisory Services (RAS) team, you will play an important role in delivering high‑quality internal audit, assurance and advisory engagements across a diverse portfolio of clients. You will work as a senior member of engagement teams, taking responsibility for defined areas of delivery while collaborating closely with Managers, Senior Managers, Directors and Partners.

You will be hands‑on in executing audit and advisory work, building strong technical capability and professional judgement, and contributing to the development of clear, practical recommendations for our clients. Alongside this, you will support and mentor junior team members and contribute to a collaborative, high‑performing team environment.

You’ll be someone with

- Experience contributing to internal audit, risk, assurance or advisory engagements, taking ownership of defined workstreams and supporting delivery across a range of client environments (e.g. commercial, regulated or not‑for‑profit).

- An inquisitive and proactive mindset, with the confidence to challenge constructively, think critically about risks and controls, and contribute ideas that enhance audit quality, ways of working and client outcomes, supported by relevant experience in risk management, internal audit and systems or controls testing.

- A relevant professional qualification, or currently working towards one (e.g. ACA, ACCA, CIA, CIIA, CCAB or equivalent).

- Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to evaluate evidence, interpret data and contribute to clear, well‑reasoned conclusions.

- Effective written and verbal communication skills, with the confidence to engage professionally with clients and colleagues.

- A collaborative and proactive approach, with experience supporting or coaching junior team members and contributing positively to team delivery.

- Good organisational skills and flexibility to travel to client sites as required; experience with data analytics or AI testing tools would be desirable.

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.