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About the Role
The Senior Application Administrator is responsible for the operational ownership, governance, optimisation, and lifecycle management of BDO’s commercial and business critical applications.
The role combines deep application administration expertise with strong governance, integration knowledge, risk management, and stakeholder engagement capability.
The successful candidate will be accountable for ensuring applications are stable, secure, cost effective, well integrated, and aligned to business priorities and regulatory expectations. This will include execution of application operations, vendor engagement, change management, and continuous improvement activities.
As a member of the Applications team, the Senior Application Administrator will:
Own the administration and operational roadmap for a portfolio of commercial applications, ensuring alignment with service line needs and organisational standards
Balance application enhancement with governance, security, and operational stability across business-critical platforms
Coordinate cross-functional engagement across technology, vendors, and service line stakeholders to deliver reliable application outcomes
Execute the introduction, configuration, enhancement, and retirement of applications and integrations to ensure consistent, secure, and effective use at enterprise scale.
This is a permanent part time opportunity working 18.5 hours per week (flexible days/times available).
About You
This role requires a strong blend of application administration expertise, platform governance capability, and stakeholder engagement.
The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring commercial applications remain stable, compliant, and fit-for-purpose in a complex professional services environment.
We are seeking an individual with relevant experience administering enterprise or SaaS applications in a complex environment. Prior responsibility for commercial or line-of business application portfolios is required.
Proven ability to work with senior stakeholders and vendors to deliver stable, compliant application services is essential.
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]
