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About the Role
The Applications Lead is responsible for the leadership, governance, and continuous improvement of the commercial applications portfolio from an operational and service delivery perspective.
This role works closely with the Product Manager, Commercial Applications to execute product strategy, manage service performance, and ensure platforms meet business needs.
Partnering with service lines, vendors, and IT teams, the Applications Lead ensures effective, reliable application services.
Key responsibilities include:
Lead operational delivery of commercial applications in alignment with product strategy, roadmaps, and priorities
Act as the senior escalation point for application-related incidents, risks, and service issues
Provide input into product planning by advising on operational constraints, risks, and dependencies
Oversee application support, maintenance, and enhancement activities across the portfolio
Manage prioritisation of incidents, problems, changes, and operational improvements
Ensure dependencies across integrations, data platforms, infrastructure, and vendor services are effectively managed
Monitor and report on service performance, availability, and operational health
Represent application operations in governance forums, service reviews, and delivery discussions
Ensure applications comply with regulatory, financial, contractual, and audit requirements
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance service reliability, efficiency, and user experience
Use service and usage insights to identify opportunities to optimise application operations
Contribute to application support and service management standards and ways of working across the team.
Foster strong collaboration between applications, product, infrastructure, security, and vendor teams.
About You
This position will be accountable for overseeing the delivery of operations and service standards across business applications.
We are seeking an individual with:
Demonstrated experience supporting business-critical application portfolios in a professional services or complex enterprise environment
Experience working closely with Product Managers to execute product strategies
Proven ability to lead, mentor, and develop application teams while maintaining high service standards.
Exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate technical considerations into business outcomes.
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 recruitment@bdo.com.au
BDO is a trusted adviser to clients seeking audit, tax and advisory services. As one of the world’s leading audit and accounting organisations, we have clients of all types and sizes from large corporate organisations to private businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals across an array of industry sectors.
At BDO, we are guided by our values that are the foundation of what we deliver: IDEAS | PEOPLE | TRUST.
This is about delivering ideas and advice that create value; quality-driven people who are motivated by providing exceptional client service; and being trusted to get the job done.
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