Senior Audit Manager; Hybrid-Partner Track

Senior Audit Manager (Hybrid-Partner Track Opportunity)

SENIOR MANAGER OF AUDIT & ASSURANCE

Partner-Track Opportunity

Talley LLP | Orange, California (Hybrid)

Build More Than an Audit Practice. Build Your Legacy.

Talley, LLP, and its affiliated entities—Talley Law Group, LLP ("TLG"), Talley Capital Group, LLC ("TCG"), and Talley Wealth Management, LLC ("TWM") (collectively "Talley")—is a full-service financial, tax, legal, and consulting organization serving entrepreneurially driven businesses and their owners. Talley partners with clients as business advisors, not just service providers, constantly seeking innovative ways to strengthen their bottom line. Talley, LLP, was founded in 1989, with the mission of helping entrepreneurially driven businesses, their owners, and high net worth individuals, to manage their financial affairs and to achieve their business objectives profitably and efficiently.

Our professionals strive to become each client’s Most Trusted Advisor (MTA) by delivering global solutions to our client’s complex challenges and opportunities. Our services include:

• Audit & Assurance services, including financial reporting
• Tax compliance
• Tax planning, and proactive advice
• Business consulting
• Estate planning, business planning, M&A, and tax law services delivered through TLG
• Outsourced accounting, controller and CFO services
• M&A, growth-through-acquisition, and operational consulting delivered through TCG

Talley is a boutique firm with 70+ U.S.

-based professionals and 20–30 offshore/outsourced team members. Headquartered in Orange, CA, the firm has grown rapidly, becoming a leading Orange County professional services provider. We embrace a hybrid work culture built on accountability, results, and exceptional client service delivered by professional, motivated individuals.

Reporting directly to the Audit & Assurance Partner, the Senior Manager brings technical depth, leadership, and a client-first mindset to one of Talley’s core practice areas. You’ll lead process improvements, drive the adoption of new technology and AI tools, and work across departments to grow what Talley can offer its clients. This is a role for someone who wants to move quickly into a Client Service Manager (CSM) position, designing and delivering audit, assurance, and consulting engagements while spotting the next opportunity for a client before they have to ask for it.

You’ll do well here if you’re comfortable in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment and want a real, performance-based path to Partnership rather than a fixed timeline.

• Help build stronger ties between Audit & Assurance and Talley’s Tax, Legal, CAS, Consulting, and Wealth Management teams, and look for cross-selling opportunities beyond standard audit work
• Align audit deliverables with tax compliance and CAS processes so clients get one coordinated experience
• Use AI and other emerging tools to streamline your own work, and help guide adoption across the department
• Contribute to a multi-year goal of growing the Audit & Assurance practice past $5 million in revenue, including expansion into valuation services and broader firm-wide cross-selling

• Plan, execute, and document engagements from planning through fieldwork and reporting
• Build audit programs that balance interim and year-end work, and tailor your approach to each client’s actual risk profile
• Design and test controls, prepare and review financial statements and disclosures, and draft reports for non-standard opinions when needed
• Research technical issues against authoritative guidance, and review work papers for accuracy and completeness
• Bring real depth in industry-specific accounting, regulatory, and reporting issues

• Get to know your clients’ operations, strategy, and financial systems well enough to flag issues before they become problems
• Serve as a trusted resource clients come to with questions, not just the person who signs off on their audit
• Respond quickly to client requests and resolve issues without needing to elevate every time
• Spot opportunities to bring in Tax, CAS, Consulting, or…