Madeline Ho

Executive summary

Madeline is a Director in the Risk Advisory Services team with BDO in Melbourne, with a key focus on internal audit, enterprise risk management, and compliance. She is known for her people centric and client-first mindset, bringing a genuine curiosity to understand each client’s business, and a thoughtful approach to solving complex problems. Madeline is passionate about building long-term, trusted relationships and is known for her ability to connect with stakeholders at all levels to deliver practical, value-driven outcomes.

Madeline’s sector expertise includes retail, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, property development and transport and logistics. Prior to joining BDO in 2025, Madeline spent more than 14 years at another global professional services firm.

Expertise

• Internal audit
• Enterprise risk management
• Risk and compliance
• Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) implementation and control.

Experience

• Internal audit: Leading the risk-based internal audit program for a top ASX-listed conglomerate in retail apparel, homewares, office supplies and digital segment, and other ASX entities in pharmaceutical, consumer markets, and e-commerce
• Enterprise risk management: Facilitating risk workshops with boards and executive management teams to help identify strategic and operational risks, define risk appetite and parameters, and evaluate the risk management framework for a not-for-profit organisation, manufacturing and financial services in wealth management
• Payroll compliance and remediation: Conducting deep dive reviews of payroll compliance and the remediation of payroll underpayments for ASX listed corporations
• Sarbanes Oxley (SOX): Working with global teams to assess the readiness of their SOX programs, implementation of SOX programs as part of US listings and ongoing operational testing
• Quality assurance reviews: Performing a quality assurance review for one of Australia’s largest banks. Providing improvement opportunities across their internal audit engagements and current insights to the senior management team

Qualifications and affiliations

• Chartered Accountant, CA ANZ
• Fellow Member, ACCA