Senior Associate, State and Local Advisory- Government Services

About the role

As a Senior Associate in BDO Government Services, this role will support a government client in the implementation of its new financial management system, with a focus on organizational change management. This role requires a professional who can help agency stakeholders understand, prepare for, adopt, and sustain changes to financial processes, roles, controls, reporting, and day-to-day ways of working. The team works alongside client leadership, project teams, and end users to translate system implementation activities into practical change management support, including stakeholder engagement, readiness assessment, communications, training coordination, adoption planning, issue escalation, and post-go-live reinforcement. The role requires strong consulting, communication, facilitation, and project coordination skills, as well as an understanding of how public-sector financial management processes operate and change during large-scale technology modernization.

Responsibilities

• Supports organizational change management activities for a government client’s financial management system implementation, with emphasis on financial management processes, roles, controls, reporting, and user adoption
• Develops and maintains change management materials, including stakeholder analyses, readiness assessments, communications, training support materials, cutover/adoption resources, and reinforcement plans
• Works with agency finance, procurement, budget, accounting, grants, and administrative stakeholders to understand current-state processes and identify operational impacts associated with new system-enabled workflows
• Coordinates with functional, technical, and implementation team members to translate system changes into clear business impacts, user-facing guidance, and action-oriented change plans
• Prepares client-ready deliverables, meeting materials, status updates, issue summaries, and implementation support documentation that are clear, accurate, and appropriate for government audiences
• Facilitates meetings, workshops, and working sessions with agency stakeholders to gather input, validate change impacts, address adoption barriers, and support implementation decision-making
• Supports change readiness, communications, training