Senior Personal Assistant

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 Business Support team works across BDO, helping to keep the business organised and moving. You’ll plan and coordinate activities, support projects and find ways to make things work more efficiently.
With plenty of variety, you’ll build relationships across the organisation, develop your skills and take responsibility for work that makes a difference to the people around you.

The role you’ll have

This Senior PA role is a strategic business support position within the East Anglia Tax team in Ipswich, providing high-level support to a number of Partners and Directors. The successful candidate will be much more than a traditional PA, acting as a trusted business partner and central point of coordination to help drive efficiency, support decision-making and contribute to the firm's overall success.

The role requires someone who can thrive in a fast-paced and changing environment. Key qualities include strong organisational skills, adaptability, resilience and the ability to remain calm under pressure. The successful candidate will be proactive, commercially aware and confident in managing competing priorities while anticipating stakeholder needs. Excellent communication skills, problem-solving ability and a willingness to embrace technology and continuous learning are also essential.

BDO is looking for someone who takes ownership of their work, contributes to wider business initiatives and supports the development of colleagues. In return, the firm provides structured career progression, ongoing learning opportunities and access to its Career Development Framework and BDO Vocational Achievement programme.

Day-to-day responsibilities include advanced diary and travel management, email and meeting coordination, document production, project and event support, business development assistance and management of financial and HR systems. The role also involves contributing to local and firm-wide initiatives while helping to drive process improvements and operational efficiency across the team.

You’ll be someone with

- Advanced diary and travel management

- Sophisticated email and meeting coordination

- Document production and management

- Project and event management and support

- Business development assistance

- Financial and HR system management

- Contribution to local and firm-wide initiatives

- Development of yourself and others / Contribution to the training and development of colleagues

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.