Assurance Transformation Program Lead

BDO USA, LLP; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

BDO USA, LLP is seeking a senior manager to lead and support strategic transformation initiatives across the Assurance practice. You will drive planning, governance, adoption, and value realization within the PMO, translating priorities into integrated roadmaps and measurable outcomes.

You will collaborate with leadership, sponsors, and workstreams to align objectives, develop detailed plans, and provide leadership-ready materials and updates for governance forums.

Qualifications

• Eight (8) or more years of experience managing projects, programs, transformation initiatives, PMO activities or professional services work, required
• Experience operating at a senior project manager level with responsibility for guiding teams, influencing stakeholders, managing complex workstreams, and driving execution across multiple priorities, required
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives that require governance, stakeholder alignment, risk management, change adoption, executive reporting, and measurable business outcomes, required
• Experience developing and maintaining integrated project plans, roadmaps, milestone trackers, risk logs, issue logs, decision logs, dashboards, meeting materials, and leadership-level updates, required
• Experience working with senior leaders or governance bodies to frame decisions, elevate risks, present recommendations, and drive follow-through, preferred
• Experience with operational excellence, professional experience, client experience, or practice transformation initiatives, preferred

Responsibilities

• Leads or manages assigned Assurance strategic programs, transformation initiatives, PMO or activities from planning through execution, adoption, and value realization
• Partners with Assurance leadership, program sponsors, steering committees, vertical leads or workstream owners, enabling functions to align objectives, priorities, governance expectations, roles, and decision rights
• Translates Assurance strategic priorities into integrated program structures, roadmaps, milestones, success measures, interdependencies, resource plans, and executive-ready updates
• Develops, maintains, and monitors detailed program and project plans, including workstream plans, milestone trackers, risk logs, issue logs, decision logs, change requests, dependency maps, readiness plans, and reporting dashboards
• Provides project management oversight of program and project execution, proactively identifying risks, issues, resource constraints, adoption barriers, quality impacts, and cross-workstream dependencies that may affect delivery or business outcomes
• Escalates material risks, issues, decisions, changes, and trade-offs to Assurance leadership or governance forums with clear options, recommendations, implications, and required actions
• Prepares leadership-ready materials, including steering committee updates, business cases, program summaries, dashboards, decision papers, implementation plans, recommendations, and communications for Assurance stakeholders
• Facilitates program meetings, leadership discussions, planning sessions, workshops, and decision forums, documenting outcomes and driving follow-through on commitments
• Supports Assurance transformation governance by reinforcing cadence, intake criteria, prioritization discipline, reporting standards, project control processes, and accountability routines
• Coordinates with Professional Practice, Quality, Operations, Technology, Learning, Change Management, Communications, and market or practice leaders to ensure initiatives are executable, appropriately controlled, and aligned to Assurance priorities
• Helps ensure transformation work supports Assurance priorities related to audit quality, professional experience, client experience, operational efficiency, strategic growth, risk management, and sustainable adoption
• Monitors program health, adoption readiness, milestone achievement, benefits realization, and value indicators, providing insight on progress, barriers, and corrective actions
• Promotes consistent use of Assurance project management tools, templates, reporting standards, governance routines, and leading practices
• Mentors and guides project managers, PMO resources, workstream coordinators, and team members supporting Assurance strategic initiatives
• Identifies opportunities to improve Assurance execution discipline, governance maturity, operational consistency, stakeholder communication, and project management capability across the practice
• Performs other duties and supports special projects as assigned

Skills

Executive communication

Facilitation

Stakeholder management

Governance

Change management

Project management

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Business, Finance, Management, Information Systems, or Project Management

Tools

Microsoft Planner

Smartsheet

Power BI

Job description

BDO USA, LLP is seeking a senior manager to lead and support strategic transformation initiatives across the Assurance practice. You will drive planning, governance, adoption, and value realization within the PMO, translating priorities into integrated roadmaps and measurable outcomes.

You will collaborate with leadership, sponsors, and workstreams to align objectives, develop detailed plans, and provide leadership-ready materials and updates for governance forums.