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About the Role
We have an opportunity for a Consultant / Senior Consultant to support the delivery of risk, regulatory, compliance, and internal audit engagements for financial services clients, with a focus on control reviews, governance frameworks, and regulatory assurance.
About the Team
BDO has experienced teams across Australia offering a range of risk advisory services to businesses and organisations in both the private and public sectors. Our risk advisory services include:
- Internal Audit – Our services include risk-based audit planning, financial and compliance audits, operational and performance audits, investigations, technology and project assurance
- Risk Assurance & Advisory – Our teams provide a full range of risk solutions to help organisations navigate a diverse range of challenges, changes, and opportunities. The risk assurance and advisory solutions we provide include risk management, risk mitigation, risk strategies and crisis management.
- Cybersecurity – With cyber-attacks continuing to increase in complexity, sophistication and frequency, building cyber resilience across organisations to minimising the impact of a cyber incident on your business.
- Technology & Project Assurance – We provide valuable and effectively assessing project and information technology governance, controls and implementation to ensure successful project outcomes.
- Control & Third-party Assurance – Our contract and third-party assurance solutions include auditing and managing financial and commercial contract performance and risk.
About the Opportunity
RAS consults to organisations across various industries to ensure that appropriate controls and processes are in place to secure clients’ strategic and operational objectives. This role has a strong focus on financial services clients (for example banks, insurers, superannuation funds and wealth managers), while still offering opportunities to work across other sectors and clients within the broader team.
As a Senior Consultant in our Risk Advisory Service line, you will work closely with Partners and Senior Management to deliver a range of internal audits, management reviews and provide advice to clients. This role offers a great variety of work, autonomy, client contact and direct Partner interaction and coaching.
What You'll Be Doing
- Delivering a variety of internal audits, business risk assurance and business process improvement projects in accordance with BDO’s methodologies and procedures. This will include report writing and communicating with clients
- Recommending policy, procedural, process, system and control improvements, where identified.
- Assisting in preparing proposals / scoping documents in response to client requests, preparing reports for projects undertaken and assisting with the development of new methodologies and service offerings.
- Collaborating with senior leadership to assist with scheduling of work across the practice and contributing to the development of junior staff in a mentoring capacity.
- Maintaining relationships with clients and working with internal stakeholders in creating future business opportunities.
About You
Our ideal candidate will come from a risk consulting background, ideally with experience delivering internal audit and/or risk engagements for financial services organisations.
Combined with:
- 2-3 years experience working in internal audit, related risk management or in similar role.
- An accounting or business-related degree.
- A working knowledge and understanding of basic internal audit and risk management practices and standards (IIA and ISO31000).
- Knowledge and experience in undertaking internal audits, risk assessments and undertaking risk management framework reviews etc.
- Experience in conducting internal audits of basic financial processes and controls and internal audits of operational processes.
- Exposure to Enterprise Resource Management systems (e.g. SAP, Oracle, TechOne etc.).
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]
