Director of Client Accounting & Payroll Services

Lead the firmwide strategy, performance, and growth of client accounting and payroll services across all offices. This is an enterprise leadership role focused on leading through managers, developing people, strengthening operations, and delivering financial results.

What You Will Do

Set strategy, drive service-line growth, lead managers, develop future leaders, strengthen operations, technology, and quality, and own financial performance and the client experience.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Strong executive communication, collaboration, judgment, and problem-solving skills, ability to connect staffing, pricing, technology, and service delivery decisions to business results, and confidence managing complex client relationships and working across service lines.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field
• Approximately seven or more years of progressive experience in CAS, accounting, payroll, outsourced accounting, or related professional services, including at least three years of leadership experience
• Demonstrated ability to set strategy, lead managers across teams or locations, and manage financial performance
• Strong knowledge of accounting processes, financial reporting, payroll operations, payroll taxation, compliance, and internal controls
• Experience improving operations, implementing change, and building consistent processes across teams
• Ability to connect staffing, pricing, technology, and service delivery decisions to business results
• Strong executive communication, collaboration, judgment, and problem-solving skills
• Confidence managing complex client relationships and working across service lines
• Leadership experience in a multi-office CPA or professional services firm preferred
• Experience scaling CAS or outsourced accounting services, integrating acquisitions, and implementing cloud accounting or payroll technology preferred
• CPA and/or Certified Payroll Professional (CPP) designation preferred

Benefits

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• A Modern Approach with AI, technology, and new ideas
• Real Career Growth with firmwide responsibility, developing future leaders, building services, and helping shape the direction of a growing practice
• Live Well with a culture focused on exceptional client service and sustainable performance