Are you a growth-oriented individual looking for a firm that values innovation and client service? Look no further than ATKG!
For over 40 years, we have delivered exceptional Tax, Accounting, Assurance, and Advisory services to clients in San Antonio and throughout the United States. As a result, we have been named 2023 Best Places to Work! We take pride in the culture we have built at ATKG and continually invest in our business and our people to become better together. But we are not just committed to our clients and employees – we are also committed to our community. We have partnered with many great charitable organizations throughout the years, with our focus over the past 2 years on our charity of choice, Kinetic Kids!
And now, we are taking our commitment of excellence to a new level. In May 2023, we made the strategic decision to join Ascend – a tax, accounting, and advisory platform that partners with entrepreneurial CPAs to usher in their next stage of growth. With Ascend’s shared resources and partnerships, ATKG is well positioned for strong innovation and growth in the years to come! If you are a CPA who shares our values and is looking for a dynamic and exciting firm to call home, look no further than ATKG!
Top reasons CPAs choose to work at ATKG:
- Be on a team that embraces technology and innovation. We proactively invest in new tools and systems to help you focus more on client service and less on mundane tasks.
- Benefit from a culture of support. We serve clients collaboratively and have fun while doing it!
We need bright, motivated, and energetic people to help us continue to grow. We are currently looking for an Assurance Manager to join our business who will exemplify our core values.
- Positivity: Look for good in all situations and people.
- Team: We make each other better. We are humble, hungry, and smart.
- Open: Foster trust, respect, and understanding through thoughtful communication.
- Insightful: Look beyond what is ordinary and find the extraordinary.
- Caring: We take an active interest in our team and clients.
Who you are:
Enjoy delivering excellent client service, with superior results. Hands-on and passionate about developing yourself and others. As an Assurance Manager, you'll be responsible for for driving growth by developing new and enhancing existing client relationship, leading project teams and delivering an excellent customer experience.
What you'll be doing:
- Manage assurance engagements by defining the audit strategy in consultation with the senior manager/partner and execute it in compliance with ATKG policies and procedures.
- May execute complex audit procedures and lead teams or parts of teams on engagements, depending on the size of the engagement.
- Manage projects and engagements profitably by leading the team to perform efficiently.
- Monitor the assurance team’s progress against the plan and alter it when needed.
- Cultivate and manage business development opportunities and generate new audit business.
- Coach and develop people by sharing knowledge with team members and helping team members attain experiences that cultivate technical competencies.
- Develop people by encouraging individuals to think for themselves and take responsibility for their contributions to the assurance team.
- Conduct timely performance reviews and provide performance feedback/on the job training.
- Maintain cooperative relationships with other teams.
- Develop and maintain long-term
Skills & Abilities
- Work effectively as a team member, sharing responsibility, providing support, maintaining communication and updating senor team members on progress.
- Contribute ideas/opinions to the assurance teams and listen/respond to other assurance team members’ views.
- Demonstrate professionalism and competence in the audit client’s environment.
- Excellent project management skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.
- Excellent time management skills, organizational skills, and attention to detail.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- CPA Certification.
- 5+years of related work experience.\
What we offer:
- Benefits (Vision, Dental, Medical)
- Hybrid opportunities available or 100% remote work depending on location
- Unlimited PTO
- 401k matching
- Fun company sponsored activities and events
- Career & growth opportunities for interested team members
What We Do
Ascend empowers entrepreneurial CPAs to reach their goals with an innovative growth model that brings their firms into the new age. Backed by private equity from people-focused Alpine Investors, Ascend is building a modern platform for regional accounting firms that enables them to stay independent while accessing the resources of a large CPA firm to help them grow. Ascend provides access to growth capital, robust talent acquisition, best-of-breed technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives so that firms can surmount today’s industry challenges and reach their full potential. Founded in January 2023, the company attained revenues sufficient to qualify it as a Top 100 U.S. accounting firm within six months of operation.
