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About the Role

This client-facing role leads complex transformation, people, and workforce advisory engagements for private and government organizations. The successful candidate will leverage business development experience, consulting capability, strategic thinking, and delivery leadership to help clients achieve sustained organizational outcomes. The role involves clarifying complexity, aligning stakeholders, designing practical solutions, leading project delivery, contributing to thought leadership, and driving practice growth.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow BDO’s Change and Transformation practice in Sydney through visible leadership, strategic business development and market engagement.
Build trusted executive relationships, identify and convert opportunities, shape compelling proposals and contribute to the practice’s growth strategy.
Lead the design and delivery of complex people advisory, transformation and change engagements for clients across private and government sectors.
Partner with clients to understand strategic priorities, diagnose organizational challenges and develop practical, evidence-informed solutions.
Translate enterprise strategy into actionable programs of work, operating models, workforce plans, change roadmaps.
Provide trusted advice to senior client stakeholders, bringing clarity to complex issues and supporting effective decision-making.
Ensure high-quality project outcomes through strong project governance, disciplined delivery, commercial awareness and exceptional client service.
Lead workforce optimisation, organisational effectiveness and transformation programs that improve productivity, performance and service delivery outcomes.
Design organisational structures, role reviews, competency frameworks, and ways of working that support strategic objectives and sustainable performance.
Develop workforce strategies and plans that align capability, capacity, structure and culture with future business needs.
Lead the people side of enterprise technology transformation, with deep expertise of change management across either: SAP, Oracle, Workday, Dayforce or other enterprise platforms.
Shape and deliver change strategies, stakeholder engagement, organisational readiness, communications, training and adoption approaches that enable successful system implementation and business transition.
Partner with business and technology leaders to manage change impacts, embed new ways of working and drive sustained user adoption and value realisation from technology investments.
Lead, coach and support project teams to deliver high-quality work, build capability and contribute to a collaborative, high-performing team culture.
Manage individual and team workload, prioritise effectively and support team members to deliver against agreed timelines and outcomes.
Lead proposal development, client relationship management, market insights and business development activities.
Develop and contribute to methodologies, tools, thought leadership and service offerings that strengthen the practice.
Model BDO’s values through authentic, collaborative and courageous leadership, fostering trust, accountability, excellence and inclusion.

Requirements

Significant experience in consulting and business development (10-15 years+).
Strong technical capability across one or more: change management, organisational design and workforce strategy across private and/or government organisations.
Experience working with senior stakeholders and diverse stakeholder groups to align priorities, manage complexity and deliver sustained outcomes.
Leading consulting teams to deliver quality products and outcomes for clients while building capability within the team.
Well-developed consulting skills, including problem solving, research, analysis, facilitation, presentation, project management and attention to detail.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex ideas clearly and influence stakeholders at various levels.
Commercially astute, self-motivated and comfortable working in a fast-paced, client-facing professional services environment.

Skills

Change management
Organisational design
Workforce strategy
SAP
Oracle
Workday
Dayforce
Problem solving
Research
Analysis
Facilitation
Presentation
Project management
Attention to detail
Written communication
Verbal communication
Business development

Location

Sydney

Work Type

Client-facing
Professional services environment

Experience Level

10-15 years+

Education Level

Relevant tertiary qualification in business, psychology, human resources, organisational development, change management or a related discipline is desirable.

Benefits

Health and wellbeing benefits
Social benefits
Financial benefits
Professional development benefits
Fitness challenges
Exclusive discounts to corporate health insurance
Gym memberships
Wellness facilities via our BWell program
Travel perks
Retail discounts
Employee referral rewards
Study support
Professional development support
Enhanced family support
Cultural leave
Religious leave
Options to purchase additional leave
Community initiatives via our BCaring program
On the job training
Formal development programs

About the Company

BDO is a global professional services firm connected to local markets.
Our people work together to provide specialist expertise, helping businesses achieve their goals.
We inspire others, to go further. We create together, to reach higher. We build trust, to lead purposefully.
Whether you're building your future or starting your career with us, you won’t do it alone.
From creating solutions for our clients to building careers for our people, we shape what matters, and that’s where you come in.
Join a growing and ambitious practice where you will have the opportunity to shape the future direction of our offering.
You will lead meaningful programs, build trusted executive relationships, influence strategic outcomes and play a key role in driving practice growth.
This role offers significant autonomy, leadership opportunities, flexibility and a pathway to further career progression within BDO.
Working for BDO you will be part of a growing and market leading professional services firm.
Our national and global footprint provides our people with opportunities to work on interesting client engagements, across diverse industry sectors and services.
Our open and collaborative culture ensures access to Partners and professional mentors, to guide and accelerate your professional career, across a wide array of career pathways.
Our culture is underpinned by our core values (One, Bold, Human, Heart and Strive).

Equal Opportunity

We are proud to be recognised as an Inclusive Employer for 2025-2026 by Diversity Council of Australia and a 2024-2025 Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).
BDO is committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment practices. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview process, we encourage you to contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruitment@bdo.com.au