Senior Manager, Learning & Development

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We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Manager, Learning & Development to join our People & Culture team. Reporting to the Head of Capability & Enablement, this role plays a pivotal role in shaping, delivering and governing BDO Australia’s national learning agenda.

Partnering closely with Service Line Leaders, Partners, P&C and Risk, you will drive BDO’s annual learning priorities in line with business cycles and strategic firm needs, while providing trusted, commercially focused L&D advice across the firm.

The role brings together the delivery of core learning pathways, capability uplift initiatives, systems and governance processes, ensuring learning is embedded effectively and consistently and aligned to BDO’s people strategy, values and ways of working.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the development and ongoing evolution of BDO’s national L&D priorities, ensuring alignment to commercial objectives, regulatory requirements and growth plans

• Translate learning direction into practical, high-impact initiatives that build capability, support performance and enhance the employee experience

• Design and maintain the L&D Service Catalogue, ensuring clear offerings, defined responsibilities and consistent delivery across the firm

• Build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders, acting as a trusted advisor on learning, capability and workforce development

• Lead the prioritisation and delivery of key capability pathways, ensuring they are commercially relevant, compliant and continuously improved

• Oversee core L&D processes and performance reporting, ensuring strong governance, compliance and clear data and insights to support decision-making

• Shape investment cases and strategic recommendations to support the ongoing growth and maturity of BDO’s L&D function

• Support the introduction of innovative approaches to learning and capability uplift, including the use of AI

• Lead the L&D team, building capability and a high-performing, collaborative culture across the function

About You

• Demonstrated experience in a senior L&D or capability role, with strong exposure across learning strategy, design and delivery

• Experience leading enterprise or large-scale learning initiatives, ideally within a professional services, partnership or complex environment

• Strategic and pragmatic, with the ability to translate direction into practical, high-impact delivery

• Experience leading teams and driving capability within an L&D function

• Exposure to learning systems and reporting tools (e.g. Workday Learning, GO1, Power BI) is desirable

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]