Accounting Advisory Manager: Lead Complex Engagements

Crowe; Tampa (FL); On-site; USD 123,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Crowe's Accounting Advisory Manager role places you alongside senior finance leaders to address complex accounting, financial reporting, and transformation challenges, owning engagements from planning through delivery while coaching teams.

You will build client relationships, drive market growth, and contribute to leadership development and practice expansion, with travel up to 30% and the option for remote or client-site work.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field.
• At least five years of relevant experience in accounting advisory, technical accounting, financial reporting, corporate finance, or recent public accounting external audit.
• Active Certified Public Accountant license.
• Demonstrated experience leading engagements and developing accounting professionals.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent priorities while maintaining quality, accountability, and effective stakeholder communication.
• Strong analytical, project management, and written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Ability to travel up to 30% annually based on client and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead accounting advisory engagements from scoping through final delivery, with accountability for objectives, staffing, timelines, budgets, risks, quality, and client communications.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior finance stakeholders by anticipating concerns, resolving issues, and presenting practical recommendations.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and maintain alignment among clients, engagement teams, auditors, and other stakeholders.
• Research and analyze complex transactions, apply relevant accounting guidance, and prepare clear technical memoranda and other client-ready deliverables.
• Advise clients on complex transactions, purchase accounting, SEC and financial reporting matters, accounting standard implementation, and audit readiness and remediation.
• Provide accounting and reporting support tailored to the needs of clients across multiple industries.
• Evaluate, design, and implement improvements to close, consolidation, reporting, controls, and other accounting and finance processes.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, scalability, data quality, and decision support within finance organizations.
• Monitor relevant accounting, regulatory, and industry developments and translate them into practical client guidance.
• Supervise, coach, and develop engagement team members through clear expectations, timely feedback, mentorship, and review of work products.
• Promote collaboration, accountability, quality, and continuous learning across engagement teams.
• Serve as a technical resource while continuing to expand expertise across complex accounting and financial reporting matters.
• Identify emerging client needs and opportunities to expand relationships and deliver additional value.
• Support proposals, presentations, and other business-development activities in collaboration with practice and cross-functional leaders.
• Contribute to recruiting, thought leadership, service development, and other initiatives that strengthen the practice and its market presence.

Skills

Leadership

Analytical skills

Communication

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field

Master's degree in Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related field

Certified Public Accountant license

Job description

Crowe's Accounting Advisory Manager role places you alongside senior finance leaders to address complex accounting, financial reporting, and transformation challenges, owning engagements from planning through delivery while coaching teams.

You will build client relationships, drive market growth, and contribute to leadership development and practice expansion, with travel up to 30% and the option for remote or client-site work.