Jobs at BDO in Australia

Leads financial accounting operations, monthly and annual close processes, reporting, reconciliations, audits, cash flow management, financial governance, and process improvement. Manages and mentors accountants while partnering with the Financial Controller, CFO, and stakeholders on financial outcomes, strategic initiatives, and business projects.

Director leading tax consulting, compliance, family governance, estate planning, and business advisory services for private businesses, family groups, and family offices. Responsibilities include managing major client relationships, complex engagements, business development, practice growth, team leadership, client profitability, tax deliverables, and strategic advisory across succession planning, restructuring, trusts, capital gains, and property matters.

Lead and deliver technology risk and assurance engagements (ITGC, application controls, automated processes). Plan, execute and report audits, manage engagement budgets/resources, mentor staff, identify and escalate risks, provide practical recommendations, and support business development and practice improvement.

Manage a diverse client portfolio while delivering business advisory, accounting, and taxation services. Responsibilities include reviewing complex financial statements and tax returns, providing technical tax advice, managing compliance obligations, overseeing engagement workflow, coaching local and offshore team members, supporting budgeting and resource planning, and developing trusted client relationships.

Supports the development, implementation, and enhancement of audit methodology, quality frameworks, policies, guidance, and tools. Monitors professional and regulatory changes, contributes to methodology projects, supports technical consultations, develops audit resources, identifies capability gaps and quality risks, and collaborates with engagement teams and stakeholders to improve audit consistency, compliance, and quality.

Manage audit engagements from planning through reporting, including risk assessment, controls evaluation, substantive testing, documentation, compliance, and governance reporting. Lead complex client portfolios, monitor budgets and timelines, ensure independence and quality controls, and prepare technical accounting documents. Build client relationships, identify business development opportunities, promote the firm, and coach and develop audit staff.

Leads complex consulting and digital transformation engagements from scoping through implementation, manages senior client relationships, facilitates workshops and governance forums, oversees deliverables, coaches teams, develops offerings, and drives business development and market growth for the Melbourne Advisory practice.

Lead BDO’s privacy function, roadmap, team, and privacy culture. Advise on Australian and international privacy obligations, embed privacy-by-design across systems and business processes, oversee impact assessments, third-party and cross-border risks, and manage incidents, breaches, data subject requests, compliance registers, assurance, reporting, and training.

Lead and support external audits for listed, private, and not-for-profit organizations across varied industries. Identify audit risks, evaluate internal controls, document findings, draft client-facing reports, liaise with clients, oversee junior team members, and provide coaching. Contribute to audit planning, problem-solving, timely engagement completion, and the culture of the Melbourne audit team.

Supports the full employee lifecycle, including inductions, employee movements, exits, performance and remuneration processes, development planning, professional study programs, P&C events, wellbeing initiatives, reporting, WHS coordination, and administrative support for the P&C business partnering team. The role also contributes to projects and provides confidential, detail-oriented internal stakeholder service.

The Senior Manager - Payroll Advisory oversees payroll compliance projects, develops junior staff, and advises clients on payroll transformation initiatives while managing client relationships and ensuring project delivery.

Manage a portfolio of SME and high-net-worth clients, deliver strategic business advisory and tax planning, review complex financial and consolidated statements, conduct tax due diligence, mentor junior staff, manage team operations and job budgets, and provide tax technical advice across a range of issues.

Manage payroll compliance projects including underpayment reviews and reconciliation, develop junior staff, and support clients with payroll transformation initiatives.

Perform external audit procedures for listed, private and NFP clients; identify audit risks; document client processes, controls and findings; assist with audit reports and client communications; support engagement managers and contribute to team culture.

As a Senior Accountant, you will prepare financial statements, tax returns, and advisory services while managing and mentoring junior staff.

The Senior Accountant will prepare financial statements, income tax returns, provide advisory services, and mentor junior team members while ensuring client satisfaction.

Prepare financial statements and income tax returns for companies, trusts and family groups; manage BAS, GST, FBT, payroll tax and year-end tax planning; support tax planning and technical matters; deliver business and tax advisory, forecasting, management reporting and vCFO-style engagements; build client relationships and work with multi-entity group structures under guidance from experienced professionals.

BDO seeks project, commercial and financial advisors across levels to deliver business cases, procurement, transactions, financial modelling, commercial negotiations and stakeholder-facing reports for infrastructure projects across government and private-sector clients in Australia and Asia‑Pacific.

This role involves leading payroll compliance projects, addressing issues related to awards and agreements, and ensuring accurate reconciliations while managing client relationships.

Client-facing Senior Consultant/Manager supporting strategy, transformation and operating model projects (especially in justice and not-for-profit). Deliverables include reports, workshops, stakeholder engagement, process improvement, and implementation using structured and/or Agile approaches.