Manager - Financial Reporting Group

Manager - Financial Reporting Group

Equity Methods seeks a results-focused, growth-oriented professional to manage client engagements serving finance and accounting teams at Fortune 500 companies. As a Manager in our Financial Reporting Group, you'll apply your aptitude for finance, technical accounting, and / or economic analysis with a passion for client service to deliver world-class reporting to publicly traded companies.

You'll interface with our clients' finance, treasury, controllership, FP&A, tax, executive compensation, and legal teams. You'll gain deep experience in managing complex client relationships, maintaining and enhancing our focus on excellence and pristine client service, coaching and mentoring junior staff, and more. You'll also participate in next-level training programs and gain exposure to broader business topics in preparation for a wider leadership role within the firm.

If you enjoy problem-solving, are comfortable with excelling in client service and mastering technical topics, and have a collaborative mindset, we'd like to meet you and discuss this exciting role!

The Role in a Nutshell

• Serve as the face of the firm in equity compensation-focused financial reporting engagements, which requires command of technical subject matter, client interaction, technological automation, project management, and proactive communication.
• Manage a portfolio of clients, both from the day-to-day service perspective and the overall relationship with EM. Be accountable for the end-to-end client experience and help clients understand other ways in which EM can support them.
• Serve as an internal subject matter expert, taking a hands-on approach to projects, assisting in internal reviews, and training / coaching junior staff.
• Work effectively with internal teams while delivering high quality advisory services to client-side management and executive teams spanning multiple functions in the client organization.
• Perform research into novel technical areas and clearly explain the analysis and results both internally and externally.
• Explain complex technical issues in plain English to clients.
• Support service innovation and deliverables upgrade initiatives from ideation to design, development, and client prototyping.
• Supervise associates, providing coaching and feedback aligned with our apprenticeship-based, promote-from-within culture.
• Contribute to EM's best-in-class thought leadership platform by participating in the writing and publishing of material that showcases the firm's expertise and ability to explain complex topics in digestible prose.

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More About Equity Methods

Equity Methods is a finance, accounting, and human capital consulting firm that embraces the synergistic role of technology and subject-matter expertise to create exceptional client engagements. We deliver impact-rich services across three core practice groups : financial reporting, valuation services, and HR advisory.

With over 125 professionals and experience over 1,000 publicly traded clients (including 50 Fortune 100 companies), Equity Methods combines the best traits of an industry-leading professional services firm with the best of an entrepreneurial, technology-enabled company. For 10 consecutive years, Equity Methods has been rated #1 in client satisfaction and loyalty among financial reporting providers in Group Five's Stock Plan Administration Benchmarking Study. We have consistently been rated a Top Company to Work for in Arizona.