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Senior Consultant, Accounting and Finance Advisory Services

Baker Tilly US, LLP
Chicago, IL
$78.8K-$167.1K a year
Full-time

Overview

Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) is a leading advisory CPA firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.

S. and in many of the world's leading financial centers - New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. Baker Tilly is an independent member of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 145 territories, with 41,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $4.7 billion.

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Responsibilities

We are currently searching for a Senior Consultant to join our Corporate Finance and Forensics practice within our Transaction and Financial Advisory team.

Our practice helps CFOs, Controllers, and Finance Directors improve the financial reporting processes to ensure that finance adds value to business operations.

The CFO Advisory practice enables finance executives to achieve significant and sustainable performance through technical analysis and process improvement services.

Our clients range from emerging growth companies to publicly traded companies. We serve a wide variety of industries including technology, business services, manufacturing / distribution, energy, real estate, hospitality and retail, and private equity to name a few.

Baker Tilly's CFO Advisory Services team is comprised of practitioners across the country. Our goal is to solve problems or make improvements that will free the finance organization up so that they can focus on growing and improving their overall business.

This practice area has professionals with multi-disciplines and experiences that are drawn upon to assist our clients with very practical and hands-on support.

We have senior team members that have served as Chief Financial Officers, Controllers, financial statement auditors, and financial analysts that are all highly credentialed.

It is a high performing team that enjoys learning from one another and serving our clients.

Your immediate responsibilities will be to :

  • Actively participate in projects focused on the following service offerings :
  • Finance Performance Improvement
  • Business Analytics and Decision Support
  • Financial Accounting Advisory Services
  • Transaction Support
  • Program / Project Management
  • Participate actively in the team's work on a project (i.e. "roll up your sleeves" and work with the team)
  • Interact directly with managers and partners on matters related to client and engagement management
  • Strengthen existing client relationships by providing outstanding client service
  • Communicate with business owners, executive management, investors, lenders and other sophisticated parties to ensure delivery of exceptional client service
  • Invest in professional development through active participation in training sessions and networking events both internally and externally
  • Assist with recruiting activities to include campus recruiting along with referring experienced individuals to the firm and participating in the firm's Employee Referral Bonus Program
  • Demonstrate excellent team skills, positive attitude and high ethical standards

Qualifications

Successful candidates will have :

  • Two (2) plus years' experience in a large accounting firm in audit, financial advisory service line
  • Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance or related field
  • Certified public accountant (CPA)
  • Knowledge and ability to use appropriate tools, applications, and accounting and finance concepts to facilitate analysis.

Skills with Power BI and / or Tableau is a plus.

  • Exposure to Middle Market financial suite of applications, such as QuickBooks, NetSuite, IntAcct, etc. , their functionality, workflows, automated controls, and associated facilitation of data consolidation, reporting, and robust analytics and their relationship to addressing myriad business requirements is a plus.
  • High motivation, initiative and positive attitude
  • Excellent organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to multitask and handle multiple priorities appropriately
  • Intermediate modeling and excel skills, experience conducting complex quantitative

and qualitative financial analysis and ability to generate data-driven insights

Ability to work autonomously, to meet tight deadlines, and to thrive in a fast paced

environment with shifting priorities

  • Excellent verbal and written communication
  • Ability to work effectively and thrive in a team environment

Additional Information

For California, Colorado, New York and Washington : The compensation range for this role is $78,840 to $167,130. Actual compensation is influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to skills, experience, qualifications, and geographic location.

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