UI / UX Designer

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

To ensure our services and applications are fit for the modern market, our IT team collaborates with every department. They develop, they explore and they implement the new ideas helping us to change the future of accounting, tax and business consulting. But, just as importantly, they maintain the tech that keeps us advancing. By testing and adopting the future of financial technical solutions, they find new and exciting ways to drive us forward. And you could too. In an IT role at BDO, you’ll become part of a team that act as the backbone for our business. No matter who you are or what your skillset is, we’ll give you the training and support you need to achieve whatever you put your mind to.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice.  That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working pro-actively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

This role is a broad and collaborative UI/UX position within BDO's IT Solutions Development team, combining hands-on product design with consultancy and design governance. Working closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Developers and business stakeholders, the individual will help shape digital products from initial discovery through to delivery and ongoing enhancement. The role focuses on understanding user and business needs, translating them into intuitive, accessible and brand-aligned experiences, and ensuring design quality is maintained throughout implementation.

The UI/UX Designer will lead and contribute to research, workshops, user journey mapping and usability testing to inform design decisions. They will create user flows, wireframes, prototypes and detailed interfaces for complex, data-rich applications, using user feedback and analytics to continuously improve product experiences. A key aspect of the role is ensuring all designs align with BDO's Product Design Standards, Design System, brand requirements and accessibility standards while working closely with developers to support successful delivery.

Alongside product design responsibilities, the role also acts as a UI/UX consultancy function across the wider firm. This includes advising teams on websites, reporting, dashboards, templates and data visualisation, facilitating workshops and design reviews, and presenting recommendations to stakeholders. The successful candidate will contribute to the ongoing development of BDO's UI/UX capability, helping to establish best practice, maintain design standards and strengthen the role of user-centred design across the organisation.

You’ll be someone with:

- Strong UI/UX design experience across digital products and complex applications
- Proven experience taking products from discovery and research through to delivery and continuous improvement
- Strong visual, interaction and user-centred design skills
- Advanced Figma expertise, including prototyping, component libraries and responsive design
- Experience working with design systems, accessibility standards (WCAG) and inclusive design principles
- Ability to collaborate effectively with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Developers and stakeholders
- Strong communication, facilitation and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently while maintaining high design standards

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture.  From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another.  At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices.  BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences.  With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.

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