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Manager, Business Services

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In-Office
Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
Senior level
In-Office
Sydney, New South Wales, AUS
Senior level
Manage client engagements and relationships while delivering accounting, taxation, financial reporting, tax planning, compliance, and virtual CFO services. Lead workflow and team output, prepare and review financial statements, identify non-compliance, and coach and mentor staff. The role serves diverse family-owned businesses, high-net-worth groups, investment structures, and international clients in a hybrid Sydney-based arrangement.
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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

Our Business Services division ensures our clients' success by adding value in every aspect of their business through the provision of world-class advisory and compliance services. You’ll be involved in providing professional accounting services to a diverse range of family owned businesses, from start-ups to global entities and focus on helping our clients understand their business and provide practical strategies to help them succeed. This role will provide you exposure to numerous clients across a broad range of industries. 

Current Opportunity

As an accomplished Manager you’ll focus on delivering high quality, value adding work while developing your career in a high performing team. You will be involved in providing professional accounting and taxation services to a diverse range of family-owned businesses and investment structures, high net wealth groups and inbound international clients including significant global entities. This role will provide you exposure to numerous clients across a broad range of industries.

We are looking for someone to work in a hybrid arrangement, predominately from our Sydney CBD office, paired with the choice of our GWS (Parramatta), as well as the opportunity to work from home.

Day to day you will: 

  • Contribute to team management of workflow and team output

  • Manage client engagements and ongoing relationships 

  • Lead, advise and /or assist on business services, accounting and tax engagements 

  • Prepare and review a range of financial statements in accordance with regulatory, accounting and financial reporting standards; 

  • Perform various tax planning tasks for clients and preparing advice relating to business operations and regulatory matters; 

  • Work autonomously on tax and FBT returns and identify non-compliance issues; 

  • Provide ongoing support for virtual CFO engagements with clients 

  • Engage with our culture of coaching and mentoring staff on engagement.

What you’ll bring to set you up for success 

  • Accounting and/or tax background, including applicable tertiary studies;

  • 5 + years accounting and/or tax experience;

  • Understanding of tax, accounting and financial reporting principles and practices;

  • Xero accounting system knowledge (preferable but not required);

  • Other software platforms that would be highly regarded include Business Fitness, Monday.com and Workday PSA.

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]

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