Audit Partner - Austin

Austin
221 West Sixth Street
Suite 1900
Austin, TX 78701, USA

Austin
221 West Sixth Street
Suite 1900
Austin, TX 78701, USA

Ranked among the largest accounting and consulting firms in the country and consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work , Cherry Bekaert delivers innovative advisory, assurance and tax services to our clients. We are proud to foster a collaborative environment focused on enabling your career growth and continuous professional development. Our strategy is to be digitally driven, industry-aligned, and focused on the middle market.

In order to continue our rapid growth and success in providing compliance, planning, and consulting services to our clients, we’re currently seeking a practice builder to be a growth engine for our Austin Assurance practice.

In this highly visible, market-facing role, you’ll be responsible for practice growth along with helping to design, lead, and build the Austin audit practice focused on audit compliance and consulting for middle-market, private equity/venture backed and public companies. Our ideal candidate will have experience with a variety of commercial industries including Technology and Life Sciences, Industrials and Consumer Goods (advanced manufacturing, consumer packaged goods, retail), and/or Professional Services.

This position will be based in Austin and relocation assistance may be provided. Limited travel should be expected. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Consistently grow the practice through expansion of services to existing clients, cross selling with other advisory practices, and obtaining new clients.
• Execute the Firm and Audit Service Line vision, strategy, and goals for the Austin audit practice, as well as support other leaders in their execution of the strategic plan.
• Ensure discipline around execution of Service Line business processes and Firm business practices for the Austin audit practice.
• Manage the utilization and productivity of professionals in the practice to achieve operational and financial targets.
• Develop professionals within the practice and build a talent pipeline with the requisite technical expertise.
• Drive consistency, collaboration and communication among Service Line, Market Leaders, Shared Service Leaders, Advisory and Industry Leaders as well as with other stakeholders.
• Develop the Austin audit annual budget and drive results against budget and key performance indicators throughout the year for the practice.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting. Masters preferred.
• Must be CPA certified and have an active CPA license.
• Minimum of 15 years’ experience with a large local, regional or national public accounting firm.
• Demonstrated experience in driving growth and building an office, practice, industry group, service line or similar.
• Ability to drive success through the influencing of Partners and staff.

What you can expect from us:

• Entrepreneurial environment focused on professional development, career advancement, and performance and rewards opportunities.
• Supportive partnership group with a “one firm” mentality and a commitment to colleagues’ success.
• Big firm resources and bench strength; smaller firm flexibility and openness to new ideas.
• Defined metrics and targets that eliminate ambiguity.
• Flexible work arrangements with generous PTO, including a firmwide week off for the 4th of July.

Cherry Bekaert cares about our people. We offer competitive compensation packages based on performance that recognize the value our people bring to our clients and our Firm. In addition, we offer a comprehensive, high-quality benefits program which includes annual bonus, medical, dental, and vision care; disability and life insurance; generous Paid Time Off; retirement plans;
Paid Care Leave; and other programs that are dedicated to enhancing your personal and work life and providing you and your family with a measure of financial protection.

About Cherry Bekaert

Cherry Bekaert, ranked among the largest assurance, tax and advisory firms in the U.S., serves clients across industries in all 50 U.S. states and internationally. For more details, visit

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