- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Type
- Full-time
- Seniority
- Director
- Source
- Workday
Description
We’re BDO, 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.
About the Role
This is a client-facing role responsible for leading complex transformation, people and workforce advisory engagements across private and government organisations. The successful candidate will bring seasoned business development experience, deep consulting capability, strategic thinking and practical delivery leadership to help clients translate strategy into sustained organisational outcomes.
The role is expected to bring clarity to complexity, align diverse stakeholders around shared priorities, and design practical solutions that support our client’s change and transformation programs. Working closely with the Partners and senior leaders, the Change and Transformation Director will lead project delivery and teams, contribute to thought leadership, and drive the growth and development of the practice.
The key parts of this role are:
Practice Growth and Market Development
- 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.
Client Delivery and Advisory
- 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 organisational 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.
Transformation, Organisation Design and Workforce Strategy
- 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.
Technology-Enabled Transformation
- 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.
Leadership, Team Contribution and Business Development
- 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.
About You
For this role, technical skills and excellence in delivery are a given. We are looking for someone who can help us grow the practice and be pivotal to business development.
Our successful candidate has significant experience in consulting and business development (10-15 years+) with strong technical capability across one or more: change management, organisational design and workforce strategy across private and/or government organisations.
Combined with:
- 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.
- Relevant tertiary qualification in business, psychology, human resources, organisational development, change management or a related discipline is desirable.
What’s in it for you?
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.
Why 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.
We provide our people with various health and wellbeing, social, financial, and professional development benefits to help realise what’s possible.
Participate in fitness challenges or take advantage of exclusive discounts to corporate health insurance, gym memberships and wellness facilities via our BWell program. Access benefits such as travel perks, retail discounts, employee referral rewards, study, and professional development support.
Our leave options cater to the unique needs of our people; and include enhanced family support, cultural and religious leave, and options to purchase additional leave. You can also give back and get involved in community initiatives via our BCaring program.
With a strong focus on learning and growth, we provide on the job training and formal development programs to help you succeed in your role and develop your skills and experience.
Our culture is underpinned by our core values (One, Bold, Human, Heart and Strive).
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 [email protected]
