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About the Role
Our specialist financial management consultants help clients establish, improve, review or reposition their finance functions, creating appropriately scaled teams and operating models that support organisational success. BDO Australia also has one of the country’s largest technical accounting practices. Our specialists help businesses address complex financial reporting and accounting matters, drawing on expertise in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). We are seeking a Senior Finance Professional to join our CFO Advisory team in Sydney. In this role, you will partner with CFOs and finance leaders to navigate change, address complex finance and reporting challenges, and respond to evolving regulatory requirements with practical, commercially focused solutions. You will bring broad experience across financial reporting frameworks, AASB/IFRS concepts, finance transformation and governance to help clients strengthen their finance functions.
Responsibilities
- Lead the delivery of complex CFO Advisory engagements from scoping through to execution and closure.
- Provide strategic advice to CFOs and finance leaders on finance function effectiveness, governance, operating models and transformation initiatives.
- Lead finance transformation programs, including process improvement, organisational design and finance capability uplift.
- Deliver technical accounting, financial reporting and IFRS advisory services to clients.
- Develop and maintain strong client and referral networks.
- Identify new business opportunities and contribute to revenue growth across CFO Advisory and the broader Advisory practice.
- Lead the preparation of proposals, tenders and client presentations.
- Assist clients operationalise and embed climate reporting requirements, particularly around financial modelling, data collection and data integrity, forecasting, business performance analysis, finance governance, process design and integration into finance systems.
- Lead, mentor and develop Managers, Assistant Managers, Senior Consultants and Consultants.
- Drive a high-performance and collaborative team culture.
- Provide coaching, technical guidance and performance feedback.
- Support recruitment, workforce planning and capability development initiatives.
- Oversee engagement economics, budgeting, resource planning and profitability.
- Monitor project risks and ensure compliance with BDO's quality and risk management framework.
- Contribute to strategic planning and operational management of the CFO Advisory service line.
Requirements
- Commercially minded individual passionate about building and leading high-performing teams.
- Natural ability to identify and capitalise on opportunities.
- Ability to help shape and commercialise new CFO Advisory offerings.
- Extensive experience managing and delivering finance functions, financial reporting, governance, controls, process improvement and finance transformation.
- Sound knowledge of IFRS and corporate reporting requirements, with an appreciation of climate-related reporting and its interaction with finance processes.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.
- Proven track record in business development, client relationship management and revenue generation.
- Proven people leadership capability, with experience coaching and developing teams.
- Experience leading large, multidisciplinary project teams.
- An understanding of how sustainability-related information informs financial planning, budgeting and forecasting, performance management, and corporate reporting (IFRS) will be highly valued.
Skills
- Financial reporting
- Governance
- Controls
- Process improvement
- Finance transformation
- IFRS
- Climate-related reporting
- Financial modelling
- Data collection
- Data integrity
- Forecasting
- Business performance analysis
- Finance systems
- Mentoring
- Coaching
- Technical guidance
- Performance feedback
- Recruitment
- Workforce planning
- Capability development
- Engagement economics
- Budgeting
- Resource planning
- Profitability
- Risk management
- Strategic planning
- Operational management
- Business development
- Client relationship management
- Revenue generation
- People leadership
Location
- Sydney
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- CA, CPA or equivalent professional qualification
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 BWell program
- Travel perks
- Retail discounts
- Employee referral rewards
- Study support
- Professional development support
- Enhanced family support leave
- Cultural leave
- Religious leave
- Options to purchase additional leave
- Community initiatives via 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.
- 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