Accounting and Financial Outsourcing Director

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Dean Dorton's Accounting and Financial Outsourcing (AFO) team serves as an extension of our clients' organizations, providing scalable accounting, controllership, and strategic financial advisory services. The team combines technical accounting knowledge, industry insight, and technology-enabled processes to deliver timely financial information and practical guidance. By helping clients strengthen their financial operations, reporting, and decision-making, AFO enables leaders to focus on the priorities that move their organizations forward.

The Accounting and Financial Outsourcing (AFO) Director is responsible for the direction, performance, and continued development of Dean Dorton's AFO practice within the Business Consulting Group (BCG). Reporting to the BCG Service Group Leader, this role leads the AFO team in delivering scalable, technology-enabled accounting, controllership, and advisory solutions that create measurable value for clients.

Working in alignment with the BCG Service Group Leader, the AFO Director translates BCG strategy into an annual operating plan and is accountable for execution across client service, quality, financial performance, people, growth, and innovation. The role is based within an existing Dean Dorton market and collaborates with other BCG service-line leaders, firm support functions, and market and industry team leaders.

This position serves as the service-line leader for AFO within BCG, with primary responsibility for AFO strategy, operations, people, growth, and client delivery.

The essential duties & responsibilities of the Accounting and Financial Outsourcing Director role are outlined below in correlation with Dean Dorton's performance management impact areas.

• Develop and execute the annual AFO operating plan and budget in alignment with BCG priorities and approved financial targets.
• Own practice performance, including revenue, profitability, realization, utilization, capacity, pricing, pipeline conversion, client retention and satisfaction, employee retention, and other agreed-upon key performance indicators.
• Establish scalable delivery models, engagement workflows, staffing practices, and service standards that support consistent quality, efficiency, and an exceptional client experience.
• Monitor engagement economics and the client portfolio; address scope, pricing, staffing, or collection issues that could affect client outcomes or practice performance.
• Use data and operating dashboards to identify trends, anticipate resource needs, and hold AFO team members accountable for timely corrective action.
• Lead the evaluation, selection, implementation, integration, governance, and ongoing optimization of accounting platforms, automation, artificial intelligence, resource models, and workflow tools that improve service delivery while meeting firm security, data privacy, and risk requirements.
• Standardize core processes across industry verticals to promote consistency, scalability, efficiency, and service quality.
• Create,…