Senior Consultant - CFO Advisory

BDO; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellbeing benefits

Professional development

Flexible leave options

Job summary

BDO in Brisbane seeks a Senior Consultant to join the CFO Advisory team, delivering governance, reporting, and transformation expertise across public and private sectors.

You will work with senior client stakeholders to understand challenges and deliver practical, control-focused solutions for finance functions and reporting frameworks.

Qualifications

• Strong accounting and financial reporting expertise.
• Experience working with finance teams and understanding finance functions.
• Exposure to finance systems, processes and controls.

Responsibilities

• Support finance function reviews and transformation initiatives.
• Assist with finance system change and financial governance improvements.
• Deliver financial reporting engagements including statements and sustainability reporting.
• Provide hands-on project delivery and support during finance transformation programs.
• Help clients navigate Australian Accounting Standards, IFRS and audit readiness.
• Build trusted client relationships and contribute to high-quality outcomes across industries.

Skills

Accounting & financial reporting

CA/CPA qualification

Stakeholder management

Finance systems

Audit experience

Communication skills

Education

CA/CPA or relevant tertiary qualification

Job 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

An exciting opportunity is available for a Senior Consultant to join our CFO Advisory team in Brisbane.

Working with clients across the public and private sectors, you'll support a diverse range of engagements spanning financial management, finance function transformation, accounting and financial reporting.

You'll work closely with senior client stakeholders to understand complex challenges and deliver practical solutions that strengthen financial governance, reporting, systems, processes and controls.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Supporting finance function reviews and transformation initiatives
• Assisting with finance system change and financial governance improvements
• Delivering financial reporting engagements, including financial statements, sustainability reporting and other regulatory reporting requirements
• Providing hands-on project delivery and support during finance transformation programs
• Helping clients navigate Australian Accounting Standards, IFRS requirements and audit-readiness
• Building trusted client relationships and contributing to high-quality outcomes across a range of industries.

This is an excellent opportunity to broaden your advisory experience while helping organisations improve their financial management practices and navigate important periods of growth and transformation.

About you

You're a commercially minded accounting professional who enjoys solving problems, working with stakeholders and helping finance teams improve how they operate.

To be successful, you will bring:

• A strong understanding of accounting and financial reporting
• Experience working with finance teams and an understanding of finance functions
• Exposure to finance systems, processes and controls
• Experience in audit, CFO advisory or a related financial management environment
• A CA, CPA or relevant tertiary qualification
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Well-developed interpersonal and stakeholder management capabilities
• A proactive, self-motivated and solutions-focused approach
• A growth mindset and genuine interest in evolving accounting and reporting frameworks

If you're looking to move beyond traditional accounting or audit work and develop broader experience across finance transformation and advisory, this role offers an excellent next step.

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 ***********@bdo.com.au