Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Sikich is a provider of professional services across consulting, technology, and compliance. The Senior Manager of Client Accounting Services will guide teams, manage client relationships, and enhance operational performance through innovative solutions and strategic direction.
Responsibilities
- Analyzing, developing, and working with client teams to implement financial and operational infrastructure for clients in the outsourcing space
- Distilling technical or project management guidance efficiently and communicating effectively to staff and clients
- Developing and mentoring Sikich team members
- Managing client relationships and being a brand ambassador for Sikich
- Keeping portfolio management leadership abreast of operational health (client issues, team development, etc.) and adequately presenting solutions or action plans in a proactive manner
- Designing and vetting solutions related to team or client issues, and executing through completion with minimal guidance or consensus-building
- Enhancing Sikich processes and ideating continuous improvement to enhance Sikich operational and functional maturity
- Preparing Sikich internal stakeholders ahead of semi-annual Partnership Reviews for assigned clients. This includes, but is not limited to, maintaining sufficient operational awareness within assigned client portfolio through weekly and monthly interactions with project leads, and clients
- Leverage emerging technologies, automation, and artificial intelligence (AI) tools to improve operational efficiency, enhance client service delivery, identify process optimization opportunities, and drive innovation across client engagements and internal CAS operations
Skills
- Minimum 10 years of experience required
- Prior consulting experience with proven ability to manage multiple client service teams and client relationships
- Bachelor's degree in a business-related field (degrees focusing on accounting or finance preferred)
- Ability to achieve desired results by holding others accountable and leading teams
- Familiar with GAAP concepts and interpretation of guidance
- Mastery of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint required
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially with discussing technical concepts and distilling them into actionable steps for your team and/or clients
- Self-starter, creative problem solver, and thrives under limited supervision
- Strong analytical, organizational, and project management skills
- Proven track record of improving financial and operational processes, preferably with growth-stage companies
- Ability to adapt to a changing working environment, pivoting with new priorities, communicating change effectively, and driving alignment in execution with your teams and clients
- Ability to work effectively both in a team environment and independently under tight deadlines and pressure
- Demonstrated ability to evaluate, adopt, and utilize emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and automation tools, to enhance business processes, improve decision-making, and drive operational efficiency
- Values driven – You embody and model absolute integrity and servant leadership and you have a bias for action and continuous innovation
- Uncompromising problem solver – You see opportunities in every business challenge and can develop, articulate and implement solutions
- Collaboration – You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units
- Instills trust – You do what you say, without ego, and you follow through on commitments consistently and credibly
- Impact & influence – You are relentlessly focused on making a difference and can gain support for ideas, proposals and solutions. You get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives and objectives
Benefits
- Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy. We encourage every full-time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.). Waiting for time off to accrue is common at other companies. At Sikich, you do not have to wait for this benefit to kick in. FTO is activated on your first day with our organization.
- Sikich will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
- Sikich offers a comprehensive wellness program to engage, challenge and empower team members to take responsibility for their wellbeing. Activities can be tracked through our wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards.
- Flexible work arrangements
- Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options
- HSA employer contribution
- Nine (9) paid holidays annually.
- A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
- 401(k) with employer contributions
- CPA bonus with four (4) paid exam days & four (4) paid study days.
- Tuition reimbursement
- Generous employee referral bonus program
- Client referral bonus program
- Pet insurance
- FORCE – Sikich community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.
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