Accounting Advisory Services Manager

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** WHO WE ARE
** Elliott Davis pairs forward-thinking tax, assurance and consulting services with industry-leading workplace culture. Our nine offices — located in the fastest growing cities in the US — are built on a foundation of inclusivity, collaboration, and collective growth. We work daily to provide exceptional service to our people, customers, and our communities. Audit and assurance services are provided by Elliott Davis, LLC (doing business in NC and D.C. as Elliott Davis, PLLC), a licensed CPA firm.

As part of the Elliott Davis team, you will get hands-on experience working alongside some of the leading experts in the financial and consulting fields, enjoying the autonomy to shape your career while making a positive global impact.

Our Accounting Advisory Services (AAS) team partners with customers to create opportunities for the future, providing outsourced accounting and CFO-level services, empowering decision-making through rigorous analysis of financial and operational data. The Manager plays a key role in serving our customers in a relationship management capacity. This position will serve as a high-level accounting and finance advisor for AAS customers across a variety of industries, geographies, and various stages of the business life cycle, as well as overseeing technical projects such as US GAAP conversions, and financial statement preparation.

In addition, this role will advise and mentor team members.  Excellent leadership, strong understanding of US GAAP, a desire to develop others, and strong communications skills are crucial for this role.

The Accounting Advisory Services team members collaborate with partners in Tax, Consulting, and Audit regarding customers’ accounting processes and reporting to facilitate decision-making, risk management, profitability improvement, and achieving strategic objectives.
** Responsibilities
* ** Actively lead monthly accounting needs for customers by overseeing engagement teams
* Serve as a key point of contact on day-to-day accounting and advisory matters and/or technical/special projects for customers
* Conduct and review in-depth financial analysis, provide expert financial perspective, assess risk, analyze efficiency, and inform business decisions made by the customer
* Provide tactical accounting and advisory guidance to the customer and engagement team members
* Perform technical accounting review of highly complex advisory and associated deliverables
* Prepare various ad hoc and monthly recurring reports and analyses for customers
* Perform US GAAP conversions, prepare US GAAP financial statements
* Utilize technology to properly communicate and record accounting and advisory matters
* Possess thorough knowledge of all facets of customers’ business to ensure customer understanding of engagement economics and to provide frequent updates
* Responsible for overall quality and accuracy of scope of services for customer portfolio
* Develop and manage relationships with customers, internal firm contacts, and AAS Engagement Team leaders
* Collaborate closely with customers to provide advisory services and additional service line SME project opportunities
* Provide developmental feedback to AAS and other internal team members
* Provide coaching and technical training for staff
* Demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement by implementing process enhancements that improve the quality of engagement deliverables and/or the efficiency and/or effectiveness of the engagements
* Responsible for customer invoicing and shareholder, principal, managing director communication
* Actively participate in growth opportunities through collaboration with other service lines, specialty groups, and referral sources
* Attend customer, recruiting and/or networking functions within local market, as appropriate
** Requirements
* ** Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance
* CPA certified
* 5+ years of accounting experience, preferably in a fast-paced & high-volume environment with demonstrated ability to anticipate the next steps, take initiative, exercise discretion, and apply sound judgment(many of our team members have a background in both public accounting and…