Senior Manager, Accounting Operations

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

Key Responsibilities:

Monthly Close Leadership 

• Own and manage the end-to-end monthly financial close cycle, from pre-close planning through final financial statement delivery. 
• Maintain a detailed close calendar with assigned owners, hard deadlines, and dependency mapping. 
• Drive accountability across all contributing teams — GL, AP, AR, payroll, and revenue — to ensure on-time, accurate close completion. 
• Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in the close process through process redesign, automation, and clear escalation protocols. 
• Produce and review monthly journal entries, accruals, prepaid schedules, and balance sheet reconciliations. 
• Establish and monitor KPIs related to close timelines and reconciliation quality. 
• Partner with the FP&A team to ensure GL activity is accurately reflected in management reporting and variance analysis. 

Data Integrity 

• Apply knowledge of GAAP to review and approve journal entries, ensuring proper recognition, classification, and matching of revenues and expenses. 
• Oversee data tagging at the transaction level across 7 different data tags.  
• Manage the chart of accounts structure to ensure financial data is properly coded for reporting, analytics, and compliance purposes. 
• Identify, document, and track EBITDA addbacks at the source, ensuring consistent classification and clear audit trail to support lender reporting and management views. 
• Partner with the Financial Reporting team to ensure month end close output directly supports P&L, balance sheet, and management reporting deliverables. 
Controls, Compliance & Process Excellence 
• Design and maintain a robust internal control environment to safeguard financial data accuracy and completeness. 
• Support external auditors by preparing audit schedules, responding to requests, and coordinating the annual audit process. 
• Ensure compliance with debt covenant reporting requirements and support preparation of lender reporting packages. 
• Document accounting policies and standard operating procedures; maintain updated close playbooks for all key processes. 
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce close cycle time without compromising accuracy. 

Treasury Management 

• Oversee day-to-day treasury operations, including cash management and bank account oversight. 
• Partner with the FP&A team to monitor cash balances and forecasts to ensure adequate liquidity for operations. 
• Review and approve cash disbursements and ensure proper controls over payments. 
• Partner with leadership on optimizing cash flow and banking relationships. 
• Maintain and improve treasury-related processes, controls, and reporting. 

Team Leadership & Development 

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of accounting and operations staff, setting clear expectations and providing ongoing coaching and feedback. 
• Manage and integrate offshore service delivery teams into the close and operational workflows, ensuring consistent quality, clear handoffs, and on-time delivery. 
• Manage workload distribution across the team to ensure deadlines are consistently met without sacrificing quality. 
• Foster a culture of accountability, accuracy, and continuous improvement within the team. 
• Support hiring, onboarding, and performance management for direct reports. 
• Demonstrate urgency and ownership in driving outcomes through to completion. 

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Process Improvement 

• Serve as a key finance operations partner to practice area leaders, HR, and other internal stakeholders on matters related to GL activity, Treasury, Procurement, Accounts Payable (AP) and Travel & Expense (T&E). 
• Identify and lead process improvement initiatives across accounting operations, including automation opportunities and workflow enhancements. 
• Maintain and update standard operating procedures (SOPs) for all processes within the team's scope. 
• Support system implementations, upgrades, or integrations that touch GL, Treasury, Procurement, AP or T&E workflows, including testing and documentation. 
• Assist with ad hoc projects and analyses as requested by Finance leadership. 

Qualifications:

Required 

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting. 
• 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including at least 4 years in a management or supervisory role. 
• Knowledge of GAAP and general ledger accounting principles. 
• Demonstrated experience managing a month-end close process. 
• Experience administering or overseeing a T&E program, including policy compliance and expense reporting tools. 
• Strong proficiency with ERP systems (preference given for experience with Workday ERP) and Microsoft Excel. 
• Experience designing and operating internal controls in an audit-readiness environment. 
• Exceptional attention to detail with a strong track record of accuracy in a high-volume environment. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to work effectively with both finance and non-finance stakeholders. 

Preferred 

• CPA or CPA candidate strongly preferred. 
• Experience in a professional services firm (accounting, consulting, or legal). 
• Familiarity with Workday, Practice Engine, Concur, or similar ERP, practice management and expense platforms. 
• Experience supporting an audit or working with external auditors. 
• Exposure to multi-entity or multi-practice-area accounting environments. 
• Experience with process automation tools or workflow improvement initiatives. 

Core Competencies 

• Operational Excellence — maintains high standards of accuracy and efficiency across all processes; identifies and removes friction before it becomes a problem. 
• Accountability — takes ownership of outcomes, follows through on commitments, and holds the team to the same standard. 
• Communication — translates accounting complexity into clear, actionable information for partners, staff, and leadership. 
• Leadership & Development — builds team capability through coaching, clarity, and high expectations. 
• Collaboration — works across teams and functions with a problem-solving mindset and a service orientation. 
• Adaptability — thrives in a dynamic, growth-oriented environment where priorities can shift quickly. 
• Project Management — plans and sequences work across competing priorities; sets clear milestones, owns dependencies, and drives initiatives to on-time completion.