Aprio is seeking a Senior Manager to lead assurance engagements for tax-exempt organizations, including engagements subject to Single Audit requirements under the Uniform Guidance. Nonprofits carry a heavier compliance load than many organizations their size, and the cost of a missed requirement is measured in funding, not just in findings. This role is for someone who knows that landscape well enough to help boards and finance teams see what is coming.
Your primary focus will be nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations. You may support engagements in other industries as the practice needs, but your specialty is the reason we are hiring.
Responsibilities:
- Lead multiple audit, review, and other assurance engagements concurrently, from planning and risk assessment through final review and delivery.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for an assigned book of clients, and build relationships that extend past the engagement calendar.
- Own technical quality, performing final review of workpapers, financial statements, and other client deliverables before partner sign-off.
- Manage engagement economics, including budgets, work in process, billing, and realization, and raise scope changes early rather than at the end.
- Communicate clearly and often with partners, team members, and clients on expectations, status, findings, and open items.
- Research and document technical positions, and help clients understand new standards before they take effect.
- Supervise and delegate across all staff levels, matching work to the right person and keeping engagements moving.
- Build a network of referral sources, including attorneys, bankers, and other advisors in your industry.
- Take an active role in marketing the firm's services, contributing to proposals, and new business wins.
- Recognize cross-serving opportunities across tax, advisory, and client accounting services, and bring the right Aprio team to the table.
- Represent Aprio in industry associations, at conferences, and through thought leadership.
- Coach, develop, and energize associates, senior associates, and managers on your engagements.
- Deliver candid, timely feedback and act as a counselor to less experienced team members.
- Contribute to training in your industry specialty, and help raise technical capability across the practice.
- Support recruiting and retention by helping build a team people want to stay on.
Engagement and client management
Business development
Team development
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or a closely related field.
- Active CPA license.
- Seven or more years of current or recent public accounting experience, with a concentration in audit and assurance.
- Demonstrated record of managing, coaching, and developing staff accountants.
- Strong analytical skills applied to financial statements and other financial information.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills with clients and colleagues.
- Initiative and sound judgment, with a willingness to lead, decide, and work independently.
- High standard of professional integrity and ethics.
Industry Qualifications — Non-Profit and Single Audit:
- Five or more years of assurance experience concentrated in tax-exempt organizations, with substantial Single Audit experience.
- Working knowledge of Single Audit requirements under 2 CFR 200 (Uniform Guidance), including major program determination, the Schedule of Expenditures of Federal Awards (SEFA), the compliance supplement, and the schedule of findings and questioned costs.
- Experience auditing in accordance with Government Auditing Standards (GAGAS, or the Yellow Book), and compliance with GAGAS continuing professional education requirements.
- Working knowledge of nonprofit reporting under ASC 958, including net asset classification, the statement of functional expenses, contributions and grant revenue recognition, and conditional contributions.
- Experience distinguishing exchange transactions under ASC 606 from contributions under ASC 958-605.
- Experience with endowments and UPMIFA, donor restrictions, board designations, and liquidity and availability disclosures.
- Familiarity with contributed nonfinancial assets, donated services, and gifts in kind.
- Comfort presenting findings and internal control matters to audit committees and finance committees.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience presenting to boards, audit committees, owners, or lenders.
- Experience with data analytics or audit automation tools.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting
- Master’s degree
- Licensed CPA
- 7+ years of experience working for a public accounting firm
- Developed specialty in Non-Profit Accounting
- Experience managing, coaching, and developing staff accountants
- Analytical skills related to financial statements and financial information
- Effective written and verbal communication skills
- Initiative, leadership, decision-making, and ability to work independently
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is generally positioned as competitive and fairly paid across many roles, with clearer benchmarking helped by public job-posted ranges and compensation aggregators.
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Healthcare Strength — Health, dental, and vision coverage is positioned as comprehensive and available from day one for full-time hires, which is stronger than the more typical waiting-period approach.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings include a 401(k) with profit sharing and access to FSA/Dependent Care accounts, which can improve total rewards when firm performance supports contributions.
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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.









