Senior Associate

We are looking to meet an outstanding professional to join us as a senior associate. We are recruiting in all of our core practice areas: financial reporting, valuation services, and HR advisory. Senior associates receive high-impact training to prepare for direct client engagement exposure and a rapid progression to client management.

We serve the accounting and HR executive teams at Fortune 500 companies and beyond, assisting in the design, valuation, and accounting for compensation programs and other financial instruments. Our projects lean on finance, accounting, economics, and data analytics, equipping you with experience in rigorous analysis, packaging and presenting recommendations to C-level audiences, and data visualization.

If you enjoy problem-solving, are comfortable excelling in client service and geeking out with technical models, and have a collaborative, client-focused mindset, then we would like to meet you and discuss this exciting role. After an introductory discussion, we will work with you to determine which practice group would be the best fit.

As a Senior Associate, you will have an immediate opportunity to apply your skills to client work. You will gain exposure to client communication, engagement structures, project deliverables, and how we engineer advanced processes to create outsized client value. You will be on a fast track to the consultant role, which is heavy in client interaction, supervising associates, building out new client engagements, publishing, and much more.

• Complete initial training in financial reporting engagements, ranging from broad technical training on the relevant finance and accounting concepts to the tools we use to design controlled reporting processes (e.g., working in SAS). This launch period prepares you on the fundamentals so that you intimately understand the work you will soon be supervising.
• Design, implement, and document processes to proactively manage risk and inject thoughtful control measures to ensure adherence with accounting standards, plan specifications, and client’s needs.
• Review deliverables and own successful client service outcomes. Contribute to packaging and framing to clients. Identify and lead process improvement initiatives.
• Participate in client delivery meetings and external audit review sessions, ensuring that clients understand the work product delivered and their external auditors grasp all essential features of the solution.

• Complete initial training in compensation projects, ranging from broad-based compensation issues to incentive design to statistical pay equity analysis.
• Contribute to compensation strategy projects, in which we are engaged by public and pre-IPO companies to recommend new broad-based incentive programs that support critical business objectives.
• Capture recommendations and analytics for external and internal audiences in superbly structured and clear PowerPoint presentations and Excel worksheets.
• Perform research using clients’ 10-K and proxy statements to form viewpoints on market compensation practices, including pay levels, incentive structures, corporate governance, disclosure, and equity dilution.

• Complete initial training in valuation projects, ranging from standard option-pricing techniques to Monte Carlo simulation for more exotic instruments.
• Design, develop, and test Monte Carlo simulation models to value various securities including equity compensation awards containing a market condition as well as a range of other financial derivatives.
• Design and implement the underlying…