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 & Developme
- 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
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What We Do
Aprio is a premier CPA and business advisory firm that advises clients and associates on how to achieve what’s next. Aprio’s associates work as integrated teams across advisory, assurance, tax, outsourcing, staffing and private client services, bringing the best thinking and personal commitment to each client. Across practices, Aprio brings together proven expertise, deep understanding and strategic foresight for industries including Manufacturing and Distribution; Non-Profit and Education; Professional Services; Real Estate and Construction; Retail, Franchise and Hospitality; and Technology and Blockchain. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Aprio has grown to over 1,000+ team members. To serve clients wherever life or business may take them, Aprio’s teams speak more than 30 languages and work with clients in over 50 countries.








