Senior Consultant, Finance Effectiveness & Transformation

As a Senior Consultant within BDO's Finance Effectiveness & Transformation practice, you will play an active role in delivering complex Finance advisory engagements while helping build and scale a growing practice. You will work directly with CFOs and Finance leaders to solve critical business challenges, shape practical solutions, and support the development of market-facing offerings, methodologies, tools, accelerators, and delivery assets.

This unique role offers you the opportunity to:

• Help build and shape a growing Finance Effectiveness & Transformation practice.
• Combine entrepreneurial experience with the backing of a national firm.
• Work directly with CFOs and Finance leaders to support high-impact priorities.
• Focus on measurable business outcomes, not just project deliverables.
• Deliver practical, business-led transformation with technology as an enabler.
• Be part of a collaborative, trusted-advisor culture focused on long-term client success.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead workstreams across Finance advisory and transformation engagements, including Finance strategy, operating model design, process optimization, reporting modernization, FP&A, controllership effectiveness, ERP/EPM enablement, benchmarking, and CFO effectiveness.
• Facilitate executive interviews, workshops, and working sessions with CFOs, Controllers, FP&A leaders, and Finance teams.
• Translate business needs into practical Finance solutions with clear outcomes, sequencing, implementation paths, and change considerations.
• Develop transformation roadmaps, target operating models, business cases, requirements, recommendations, and executive-ready deliverables.
• Advise Finance leaders through transformation, growth, transaction, regulatory, and technology-driven change.
• Support go-to-market activity, proposal development, account planning, and internal relationship-building across the firm.
• Help build and scale the practice by developing methodologies, tools, accelerators, market-facing offerings, and delivery assets.
• Coach and support consultants through analysis, deliverable development, stakeholder engagement, and project execution.
• Collaborate with teams across Management Consulting, Digital, ERP/EPM, Risk Advisory, Tax, and other service lines to bring integrated solutions to clients.

How do we define success for your role?

• You bring a strong CFO and Finance leader presence, with the ability to facilitate discussions, ask targeted questions, and shape practical recommendations.
• You have the ability to lead workstreams, manage stakeholders, coach consultants, and deliver high-quality client outputs.
• You are comfortable building new offerings, working in ambiguity, and contributing to the growth of a developing practice.
• You adopt a collaborative approach to working across service lines, industries, and account teams to create integrated client solutions.
• You are practical, outcome-driven, and client-centered - focused on measurable Finance outcomes and capability transfer.
• You have strong communication, facilitation, problem-solving, and project management skills.

Your Experience and Education:

• Completed undergraduate degree with outstanding academic credentials.
• An accounting designation (CPA) or relevant master's degree is preferred.
• 5-7 years of relevant work experience in finance or consulting.
• Deep expertise in financial management disciplines, such as financial process design, budgeting and planning, financial reporting, financial performance management, analytics and data modelling, and business case development.
• Experience with, or interest in, acquiring knowledge of systems and technologies that support the finance function, such as Microsoft Dynamics AX/D365, SAP, Oracle, Blackline, Workiva, etc.
• Strong knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel.
• Canadian travel required; occasional international travel. Candidates must be able to enter the USA to work on client assignments.

The expected range of compensation for this role is $84,000 - $128,000 annually.