Putting people first, every day
BDO is a firm built on a foundation of positive relationships with our people and our clients. Each day, our professionals provide exceptional service, helping clients with advice and insight they can trust. In turn, we offer an award-winning environment that fosters a people-first culture with a high priority on your personal and professional growth.
Your Opportunity
Reporting to the Chief Human Resources Officer and serving as a member of the HR Leadership Team, the Director, Talent Management & Workforce Insights leads an integrated portfolio spanning Talent Management, Total Rewards, HR Operations and People Analytics. The Director sets priorities across the portfolio, leads experienced specialist teams and helps these capabilities evolve to better support the firm’s business and people priorities.
Working closely with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition and leaders across the firm, the Director will shape the talent systems, workforce insights, rewards and HR services that help BDO retain its people, create meaningful opportunities for talent, and support the firm’s evolving workforce needs. The Director leads through experienced leaders and is not expected to be the technical expert in every area of the portfolio.
Key Accountabilities
Portfolio Leadership
Lead the Organizational Development, Total Rewards, HR Operations and People Analytics portfolio, setting clear priorities, accountabilities and measures of success.
Turn the firm’s people priorities into focused plans and practical outcomes.
Use workforce data, external information and business context to identify risks and opportunities and provide clear recommendations.
Connect the work across the portfolio so leaders and employees receive clear and consistent support.
Review what is working, stop or simplify lower-value work and improve the portfolio based on evidence and business needs.
Foster strong collaboration across HR so firmwide approaches are practical, consistent and responsive to business needs.
Talent Management
Strengthen the firm’s approach to Talent Management, with an initial focus on reviewing how performance, talent and succession decisions are supported across the firm.
Work with HR Business Partners and business leaders to improve the quality and consistency of talent discussions and decisions.
Use talent data and feedback to identify firmwide themes, risks and areas requiring attention.
Clarify roles, accountabilities and ways of working across HR as these practices evolve.
Workforce Insights
Lead the firm’s workforce insights agenda by identifying the workforce questions, trends and risks that matter most to the business.
Work through the People Analytics team to strengthen the quality, relevance and use of workforce reporting and analysis.
Move the function beyond producing standard reports toward providing insights and recommendations that support business, talent and workforce decisions.
Set priorities for the People Analytics team based on the decisions and workforce questions the firm needs to address.
Work with Finance, HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition and other stakeholders to bring together business context, workforce data and external talent-market information.
Help define how the firm’s workforce insights capability should evolve, including opportunities to make better use of analytics, technology and AI.
Total Rewards & Wellbeing
Ensure reward programs remain competitive, sustainable and aligned with business priorities, market trends and workforce needs.
Oversee the evolution of reward and recognition practices that support attraction, retention and performance.
Advance the firm’s approach to employee wellbeing, ensuring it remains responsive to evolving workforce needs and expectations and supports sustainable performance and a positive employee experience.
HR Operations & Enablement
Provide strategic oversight of HR Operations, working through the leaders responsible for day-to-day…