Assurance Strategy Execution & Operations Leader

BDO USA; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO USA seeks an Assurance Strategy Execution & Operations Leader to serve as a strategic operations partner to the National Managing Principal of Assurance. The role translates strategy into clear priorities, operating rhythms, and measurable progress by driving coordination, follow-through, and accountability across the consolidated practice.

The leader supports the executive team in advancing priorities, fostering national alignment across business lines, surfacing risks and opportunities,

Responsibilities

• Translates Assurance strategic priorities into practical workplans, milestones, operating routines, and accountability mechanisms that support execution across the practice
• Represents the Assurance practice in firmwide strategic initiatives and coordinate deployment of priorities, decisions, and action items within Assurance
• Connects strategic priorities to operational execution and identify gaps, dependencies, risks, and decision points that affect desired outcomes
• Serves as a strategic advisor to the National Managing Principal of Assurance by pressure-testing ideas, surfacing implications, and anticipating operational and strategic needs
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with Assurance Operational Leaders to promote sharing of successful practices across markets and geographies
• Maintains visibility into key priorities, timelines, owners, deliverables, and dependencies and provide leadership with a clear view of progress, risks, and upcoming decision points
• Supports coordination of third-party consultants by aligning workstreams to Assurance priorities, tracking deliverables, facilitating communication, and translating recommendations into actionable next steps

Job description

Job Summary:

The Assurance Strategy Execution & Operations Leader serves as a strategic operations partner and chief-of-staff-type resource to the National Managing Principal of Assurance. The role helps translate Assurance strategy into clear priorities, operating rhythms, action plans, and measurable progress by driving coordination, follow-through, execution, and accountability across the consolidated Assurance practice. This leader supports the Assurance executive team in advancing strategic priorities, fostering national alignment across Assurance business lines, and surfacing alignment concerns to appropriate stakeholders to promote a centralized approach to the practice. The role also helps the National Managing Principal anticipate priorities, risks, decisions, and opportunities, ensuring the right leaders are engaged, and the practice remains focused on key strategic and operational objectives.

Job Duties:

Strategic Execution and Operations

• Translates Assurance strategic priorities into practical workplans, milestones, operating routines, and accountability mechanisms that support execution across the practice
• Represents the Assurance practice in firmwide strategic initiatives and coordinate deployment of priorities, decisions, and action items within Assurance
• Connects strategic priorities to operational execution and identify gaps, dependencies, risks, and decision points that affect desired outcomes
• Serves as a strategic advisor to the National Managing Principal of Assurance by pressure-testing ideas, surfacing implications, and anticipating operational and strategic needs
• Builds and maintains strong working relationships with Assurance Operational Leaders to promote sharing of successful practices across markets and geographies
• Maintains visibility into key priorities, timelines, owners, deliverables, and dependencies and provide leadership with a clear view of progress, risks, and upcoming decision points
• Supports coordination of third-party consultants by aligning workstreams to Assurance priorities, tracking deliverables, facilitating communication, and translating recommendations into actionable next steps

Meetings and Strategic Forums

• Collaborates with leadership to develop and maintain the Assurance meeting cadence, including operational leader meetings, all-hands calls, principal meetings, and live strategic forums
• Develop strategic agendas in partnership with leadership and ensure meeting topics align with Assurance priorities and intended outcomes
• Captures meeting notes, decisions, action items, owners, and deadlines and monitor follow-through on commitments and unresolved items
• Attends meetings on behalf of the National Managing Principal of Assurance, when appropriate, and summarize key themes, risks, decisions, and follow-up actions
• Analyzes stakeholder feedback and synthesize data-based recommendations to support planning and design of town halls, business segment forums, and practice-wide meetings

Communication

• Serves as a critical communication partner to the NMP, helping shape, draft, and coordinate clear, consistent, and strategically aligned messaging to Assurance leaders, principals, managing directors, and other key stakeholders
• Writes first drafts of proposals, emails, leadership messages, talking points, and other communications for NMP review and distribution
• Ensures communications reinforce Assurance priorities, reflect the voice and intent of the NMP, and help leaders understand the why, what, and expected actions behind key strategic and operational initiatives

People

• Supports monitoring of principal and managing director goal setting to maximize practice performance and evaluate alignment of goals across the practice
• Reviews Pulse Survey results, including employer net promoter scores, and support development and monitoring of root cause analysis and remediation plans by market and geography
• Maintains visibility into key accounts across the consolidated Assurance practice, including relationship status, ownership, planned touchpoints, satisfaction levels, and follow-up needs
• Supports leadership in managing key account relationships by monitoring relationship plans, tracking client communications and visits, and surfacing relationship risks and service concerns
• Plans, coordinates, and manages internal and external principal and managing director promotion processes
• Other duties as required

Support and Supervisory Responsibilities

• Supports the National Managing Principal of Assurance and Assurance leadership team in planning and executing the fiscal year strategic plan
• Helps keep the National Managing Principal of Assurance current on critical strategic priorities, progress, risks, and decisions across business segments and practices within Assurance
• Fosters alignment across business lines nationally and raise alignment concerns to appropriate stakeholders to support a centralized approach across the practice
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