Product Manager-Audit and Tax Systems

Summary
It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they're doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. Dare to bring your unique perspective? At Novogradac, we value individuals who bring unique perspectives and bold ideas. If you're eager to contribute to an inclusive, innovative environment where your personal and professional growth is encouraged and supported, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity with us.

The Product Manager, Audit & Tax Systems is accountable for the end-to-end lifecycle and value realization of the company's audit and tax practice systems. This role translates the intent of practice leaders into a clear system vision, roadmap, and delivery plan, ensuring that engagement, workflow, document, and review platforms are well-designed, effectively adopted, and continuously improved. The Product Manager prioritizes investments based on practice value, quality, and compliance, and drives adoption, outcomes, and long-term system health across the audit and tax service lines. The firm has one available position in either Austin, TX, Bellevue, WA, Long Beach, CA, Portland, OR, Dover, OH, Atlanta, GA, Cleveland, OH, or Fort Lauderdale, FL.

Your Contributions and Responsibilities Product & System Leadership

Act as the product manager for assigned audit and tax platforms (e.g., Caseware, CCH Axcess, engagement and workflow tools, document automation, and e-file/delivery solutions)

Develop and maintain system roadmaps, backlogs, and enhancement plans across the audit and tax technology stack

Balance competing priorities, dependencies, and constraints across engagement teams, quality control, and firm leadership

Plan system lifecycle stages including upgrades, optimization, consolidation, and eventual replacement of legacy or overlapping tools

Business Partnership

Partner with audit and tax practice leaders and quality-control owners to clarify intent, outcomes, and success criteria

Support practice leaders in making informed tradeoff and investment decisions on software, workflow, and standardization

Coordinate cross-functional impacts across engagement management, document delivery, and client-facing processes to ensure practice cohesion

Provide functional direction and coordination to process-improvement resources supporting audit and quality-control work, aligning their initiatives to system roadmaps and standards.

Partner with Finance on practice value cases and ROI, and with Legal & Risk on security, contracting, compliance, and documentation-retention requirements for audit and tax systems.

Change Management & Adoption

Own the adoption strategy for system changes, from rollout through reinforcement, driving proactive, consistent, and standards-aligned adoption across the practice

Partner with appropriate cross-functional teams to support training, communication, and standardized use

Define and monitor adoption metrics; adjust approach as needed to drive consistent, firm-wide utilization

Ensure systems are aligned to how the practice should operate under professional standards, promoting companywide consistency over individual or partner-specific configurations

Delivery & Execution Coordination

Work with project managers to execute initiatives aligned to the product roadmap

Partner with IT on technical feasibility, security, architecture, and integrations (e.g., data flow between engagement, workflow, and delivery systems)

Coordinate vendor engagement—including demos, evaluations, and contract terms—from a business and product perspective

Value & Optimization

Measure system utilization, effectiveness, and realized practice value across the audit and tax service lines

Identify opportunities to reduce manual work, eliminate redundant point solutions, and improve review and delivery efficiency

Recommend system rationalization, consolidation, or retirement where the practice has accumulated overlapping or partner-specific tools

Your Background and Skills

Strong understanding of audit and/or tax engagement workflows, quality-control processes, and professional standards

Ability to work independently and to lead without authority and navigate complex stakeholder environments across partners, managers, and staff

Experience translating practice needs into scalable system designs and standardized workflows

Ability to operate at both strategic and operational levels

Familiarity with a broad range of audit and tax technologies, integrations, and system architectures

Knowledge of business process modeling and improvement techniques

Demonstrated ability to work efficiently in areas of uncertainty, using analytical skills to clarify ambiguities and resolve complex practice challenges

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Strong attention to detail and organizational skills

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Accounting Information Systems, Information Systems Management, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field, plus at least 5 years of experience in an audit or tax practice and/or product management, business analysis, systems enablement, or application ownership.

Preferred Qualifications

Hands-on experience with audit and/or tax platforms (e.g., Caseware, CCH Axcess, ProSystem fx, and engagement/document automation).

Prior experience in public accounting or supporting an audit or tax practice.

CPA license or CPA candidacy, or equivalent experience supporting engagement and quality-control processes.

Experience working with project management platforms (e.g., Jira, Wrike) and information security audit frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Certification in Business Analysis (e.g., CBAP, CCBA).

Why work with us? Novogradac is committed to fostering a welcoming workplace where all employees feel valued and empowered to grow. We believe in offering a supportive, balanced work environment that encourages professional growth and work-life integration. We are proud to offer:

Increased number of paid holidays per year

Competitive salaries with continuous review of market conditions

Flexible working hours and work arrangements

Remote and hybrid opportunities

Inclusive workplace, providing strong professional growth and development opportunities The benefits of joining our team

Strong growth opportunities

Competitive benefits package

401(k) package with firm profit-sharing

Strong emphasis on quality work-life integration

Dress for your day policy

Resources of a national firm

Opportunities to engage with our active Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), affinity groups, and advance your career within a supportive, inclusive environment

Compensation
$104,000 - $141,000 depending on experience. More is possible if experience dictates. If you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we may still be the right candidate for this or one of our other roles.

Get to know us better! We're Novogradac, a national certified public accounting and consulting firm headquartered in San Francisco. Founded in 1989, the allied group of Novogradac companies has grown to more than 900 employees and partners with more than 25 offices throughout the country. Novogradac is one of the nation's top 40 certified public accounting and consulting firms and is a recognized leader in real estate and community development. Novogradac provides publicly and privately held national enterprises with a full spectrum of audit, tax, valuation, expert witness and litigation support, property compliance and general consulting services and works extensively in the affordable housing, community development, historic preservation and renewable energy fields.

Commitment to Inclusion Novogradac is committed to ensuring a fair and inclusive recruitment process, making reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities or special needs throughout the application process. We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to apply, as we believe that unique perspectives strengthen our ability to achieve excellence. At Novogradac, we offer a variety of Employee Resource Groups and Affinity Groups to provide all employees with opportunities to connect, collaborate, and support one another in the workplace. Novogradac & Company LLP offers a progressive work environment, competitive pay and an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, life/disability insurance, commuter flex accounts and a 401(k). Novogradac and Company LLP is an equal opportunity employer. Novogradac's culture is centered on education, acceptance, innovation and opportunity. We value diversity and respect the different perspectives that each of our employees bring to Novogradac no matter their age, race, religion, gender identity or sexual orientation. We are committed to creating an equitable and inclusive workplace for our entire workforce. By submitting an application with us, you are providing Novogradac with personal information. More information on how we use your personal information may be found in our Privacy Notice at Collection.

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