Senior Manager, Professional Services Outsourcing

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The Senior Manager serves as a strategic advisor and senior accounting leader for clients, providing leadership across complex accounting, financial reporting, finance transformation, and outsourced accounting engagements. This role combines strong technical accounting and operational finance expertise with client relationship management, project leadership, team development, and business development.

The Senior Manager leads multiple client engagements and teams, partners directly with client executives and engagement sponsors, and works closely with firm leaders and other service lines to solve business challenges, improve finance and accounting processes, and deliver high-quality financial information and insights.

The successful candidate will be comfortable operating in a fractional controller/CFO advisory environment, balancing hands-on accounting knowledge with executive-level communication, engagement management, staff development, and identification of opportunities to expand client relationships.

Job Responsibilities 

• Lead a portfolio of client engagements, serving as a trusted advisor to executives, finance leaders, and other key stakeholders.

• Develop a strong understanding of each client's business, operations, financial priorities, and challenges to anticipate needs and proactively recommend solutions.

• Lead and participate in client meetings, executive briefings, planning sessions, and other strategic discussions.

• Provide accounting and financial leadership across routine and complex situations requiring sound judgment, problem solving, and innovation.

• Advise clients on accounting operations, financial reporting, internal processes, and opportunities to strengthen the finance function.

• Plan, oversee, and review periodic financial statements prepared for client use, including compiled financial statements and supporting schedules.

• Provide technical guidance on U.S. GAAP and complex accounting matters.

• Serve as a subject matter expert for the professional services industry.

• Maintain responsibility for the integrity and quality of client accounting deliverables, including financial reporting, accounts payable and receivable, reconciliations, and related accounting processes.

• Represent and support clients in interactions with external auditors and other external advisors, as appropriate.

• Evaluate existing accounting processes and recommend improvements that increase accuracy, efficiency, scalability, and timely financial reporting.

• Support and oversee accounting system implementations, conversions, and process improvements when applicable.

• Oversee multiple engagements and demanding client relationships while maintaining high standards for quality, responsiveness, and client satisfaction.

• Manage engagement scope, budgets, billing, collections, profitability, utilization, and risk.

• Identify opportunities to expand services within existing client relationships by understanding client needs and the firm’s broader capabilities.

• Develop strong relationships across service lines and connect clients with additional specialists and solutions when appropriate.

• Participate in prospect meetings, proposal development, engagement scoping, pricing, budgeting, and presentations.

• Develop a broad understanding of the firm’s strategy and service offerings and serve as a resource connecting clients with relevant capabilities across the firm.

• Guide new-client onboarding, including client and staff training, resource allocation, and work assignments.

• Coach staff and senior consultants in their career and skills development.

Requirements 

• Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.

• Minimum of seven years of experience in public accounting and/or professional services, including significant client-facing responsibilities.

• Two or more years of supervisory experience, including responsibility for developing, mentoring, and coaching accounting professionals in a fast-paced environment.

• Strong working knowledge of U.S. GAAP, financial reporting, general ledger accounting, accounts payable and receivable, account reconciliations, and period-end close processes.

• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple clients, engagements, deadlines, and competing priorities in a fast-paced professional services environment.

• Strong financial analysis and Excel skills, with the ability to analyze complex financial information and translate data into meaningful business insights.

• Strong project management and organizational skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present financial and accounting matters clearly to senior management and client executives.

• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously while effectively leading and collaborating with engagement teams.

• Ability to interact effectively with executives and all levels of client personnel across multiple industries.

• Experience supporting or participating in executive briefings, management presentations, board meetings, or similar senior-level discussions.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Active CPA license.

• CMA or other relevant professional certification.

• Experience working within a public accounting, advisory, or outsourced accounting environment.

• Experience serving in a fractional controller, outsourced controller, or senior accounting advisory capacity.

• Experience with cloud-based accounting systems and accounting system conversions or implementations.

• Experience developing engagement scopes, budgets, pricing, and proposals.

• Demonstrated experience identifying and developing additional client service or business development opportunities.

“Armanino" is the brand name under which Armanino LLP and Armanino Advisory LLC, independently owned entities, provide professional services in an alternative practice structure in accordance with law, regulations, and professional standards. Armanino LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services, and Armanino Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities provide tax, advisory, and business consulting services. Armanino Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms.

Armanino provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Armanino complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Armanino expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Armanino employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.

Armanino does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals, or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity, or third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes, or candidates submitted to Armanino or any employee or owner of Armanino without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Armanino and not subject to any fees or charges. For existing agreements, a role must be approved and open to external search; otherwise, unsolicited and unapproved submittals and referrals will be considered Armanino property and free of fees. In addition, Talent Acquisition is the sole point of contact, and contacting others in our organization without Talent Acquisition’s knowledge will result in termination of contract.

Certain states require us to disclose the pay range and benefits summary for job openings. For Colorado residents, the compensation range for this position: $105,500-$202,300. For Washington residents, Illinois residents, New York residents, and Southern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $115,400-$222,600. For Northern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $125,900-$232,700. Compensation may vary based on skills, role, and location. Eligible employees at certain levels can participate in a discretionary long-term financial incentive plan, subject to plan participation rules.

Armanino has a robust offering of benefits, including:  

• Medical, dental, vision

• Generous PTO plan and paid sick time

• Flexible work arrangements

• 401K with Profit Sharing

• Wellness program

• Generous parental leave

• 11 paid holidays

For positions based in San Francisco, consistent with the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, an arrest and conviction record will not automatically disqualify a qualified applicant from consideration.

For Individuals who would be working within the City of Los Angeles, Armanino will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. 

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