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Senior Manager, Client Accounting Operations

$115k - $160k

Aprio

Senior Manager, Client Accounting Operations

Join Aprio's Client Accounting Services team and you will help clients maximize their opportunities. Aprio is a progressive, fast-growing firm looking for a Senior Manager, Client Accounting Operations to join their dynamic team.

The Senior Manager, Client Accounting Services (CAS) is responsible for leading operational excellence, scalability, and advisory-focused service delivery within the Technology CAS practice.

This role serves as a senior individual contributor and operational leader, bridging client service, internal teams, and strategic initiatives. The Operations Senior Manager plays a key role in executing practice priorities, enabling technology adoption, supporting team development, and ensuring high-quality, consistent client outcomes.

Client Relationship Management:
  • Serve as a senior point of accountability for a portfolio of Technology and eCommerce CAS clients.
  • Oversee delivery of recurring accounting services, close processes, and advisory-support work to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and consistency.
  • Proactively manage client expectations, scope, risk, and service quality.
  • Coordinate with tax, advisory, and specialty service teams to deliver integrated client solutions.
Operational Leadership:
  • Lead day-to-day operational execution for assigned teams and client portfolios.
  • Drive alignment across workflow, capacity, and delivery priorities.
  • Identify operational inefficiencies and implement process improvements to enhance scalability and service quality.
  • Serve as an escalation point for delivery, workflow, and resourcing challenges.
Technology & Process Enablement:
  • Support evaluation, rollout, adoption, and optimization of accounting, workflow, and reporting technologies.
  • Partner with internal stakeholders and vendors on demos, pilots, training, and implementation planning.
  • Ensure technology and process decisions align with long-term practice strategy and client needs.
Advisory Enablement
  • Support the evolution of Client Accounting Services toward forward-looking advisory offerings.
  • Help define advisory service standards, deliverables, and internal expectations.
  • Enable teams to identify advisory opportunities and provide proactive, value-added client insights.
Team Leadership & Development
  • Provide guidance, coaching, and support to team members across geographies.
  • Assist with onboarding, training, and ongoing development of new hires and interns.
  • Contribute to discussions around team structure, role clarity, and resourcing to support growth and sustainability.
Strategic Planning & Collaboration
  • Participate in practice-level planning, initiative execution, and progress reviews.
  • Translate strategic objectives into clear, actionable plans with defined ownership and timelines.
  • Collaborate closely with practice leadership, operations, advisory, and technology partners.
Qualifications:
  • Prior experience in Client Accounting Services
  • Strong understanding of accounting operations, close processes, and service delivery models
  • Proven ability to manage complex client relationships and internal stakeholders
  • Experience driving process improvement and supporting technology adoption
  • Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience supporting technology or eCommerce clients
  • Exposure to advisory services (e.g., FP&A, dashboards, forecasting, analytics)
  • Experience working with distributed or global teams
  • Familiarity with modern accounting, workflow, and reporting platforms
  • Operationally minded with strong execution focus
  • Comfortable navigating ambiguity and driving clarity
  • Collaborative leadership style with ability to influence without authority
  • Detail-oriented while maintaining a strategic perspective
  • Client-centric and solution-oriented

$115,000 - $160,000 a year The salary range for this opportunity is stated above. As such, an actual salary may fall closer to one or the other end of the range, and in certain circumstances, may wind up being outside of the listed salary range.

The application window is anticipated to close on June 8, 2026, and may be extended as needed.

Why work for Aprio:

Whether you are just starting out, looking to advance into management or searching for your next leadership role, Aprio offers an opportunity to grow with a future-focused, innovative firm.

Perks/Benefits we offer for full-time team members:

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance on the first day of employment
  • Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
  • 401k with Profit Sharing
  • 9+ holidays and discretionary time off structure
  • Parental Leave – coverage for both primary and secondary caregivers
  • Tuition Assistance Program and CPA support program with cash incentive upon completion
  • Discretionary incentive compensation based on firm, group and individual performance
  • Incentive compensation related to origination of new client sales
  • Top rated wellness program
  • Flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options

What's in it for you:

  • Working with an industry leader: Be part of a high-growth firm that is passionate for what's next.
  • An awesome culture: Thirty-one fundamental behaviors guide our culture every day ensuring we always deliver an exceptional team-member and client experience. We call it the Aprio Way. This shared mindset creates lasting relationships between team members and with clients.
  • A great team: Work with a high-energy, passionate, caring and ambitious team of professionals in a collaborative culture.
  • Entrepreneurship: Have the freedom to innovate and bring your ideas to help us grow to become the CPA firm of choice nationally.
  • Growth opportunities: Grow professionally in an environment that fosters continuous learning and advancement.
  • Competitive compensation: You will be rewarded with competitive compensation, industry-leading benefits and a flexible work environment to enjoy work/life balance.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Aprio is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex; pregnancy; sexual orientation; gender identity and/or expression; age; disability; genetic information, citizenship status; military service obligations or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Aprio, LLP and Aprio Advisory Group, LLC, operate in an alternative business structure, with Aprio Advisory Group, LLC providing non-attest tax and consulting services, and Aprio, LLP providing CPA firm services.

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