Accounting and Audit Advisory - Manager

CohnReznick• , TX

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

CohnReznick is hiring a Manager for its Audit Advisory team within the CFO Advisory practice. The team works with CFO organizations at startups and middle-market to upper-middle-market companies, helping them navigate strategic, operational, and accounting challenges. It supports clients preparing for public or private transactions and works with the M&A group on pre- and post-transaction needs. The Manager helps clients navigate audits by ensuring financial information, schedules, analyses, and supporting documentation are accurate, complete, and audit-ready. The role serves as a liaison between client management and accounting teams and external auditors, coordinating requests and deliverables, maintaining data integrity, and facilitating efficient audit execution. The Manager reviews and helps prepare audit support, resolves documentation gaps and discrepancies, monitors audit progress, and works with client teams and auditors to clarify requests and address potential follow-up issues. The role also supports interim and year-end audits, financial statement and footnote preparation and review, technical accounting documentation, and improvements to financial reporting and audit-readiness processes. It includes mentoring junior team members, contributing to engagement best practices, and participating in business development and client relationship growth. This is a hybrid position. Team members are encouraged to work in person an average of three days per week, with the cadence determined at the team level. The firm offers a Total Rewards package that includes generous PTO, a flexible work environment, expanded parental leave, learning and development, and paid time off to volunteer.

Requirements

Five to seven or more years of progressive external audit experience with a Big 4 or national public accounting firm.
An active CPA, CA, or equivalent certification is required.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
Three or more years of experience leading projects, engagements, or teams.
Strong experience working directly with controllers, accounting leadership, and external auditors, and communicating from both client and auditor perspectives.
Demonstrated ability to manage complex audit engagements and high volumes of requests and deliverables while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
Experience preparing and reviewing audit support, reconciliations, workpapers, PBC schedules, financial analyses, and documentation that withstands auditor scrutiny.
Strong understanding of financial statement preparation, account reconciliations, month-end close processes, GAAP financial reporting, and audit procedures.
Ability to identify inconsistencies, unsupported conclusions, incomplete documentation, and potential audit issues and drive resolution across stakeholders.
Strong project management and organizational skills, including managing multiple deadlines and competing priorities across complex engagements.
Ability to understand the purpose and scope of audit procedures and exercise professional judgment when discussing or challenging the nature, timing, or extent of auditor requests.
Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including data analysis, reconciliation, and reporting functions.
Experience with ERP systems, general ledgers, financial reporting applications, and data management tools.
Excellent communication skills and ability to interact effectively with clients, controllers, auditors, and executive leadership.

Nice To Haves

Experience in accounting or audit advisory following public accounting experience.
Big 4 or national public accounting firm experience is strongly preferred.
Experience with private equity-backed portfolio companies and/or lean accounting and finance organizations.
Experience preparing or reviewing GAAP financial statements, footnote disclosures, and technical accounting memoranda.

Responsibilities

Serve as the primary liaison between client management, controllers, accounting teams, and external auditors throughout the audit process.
Coordinate audit requests and deliverables, ensuring timely collection of supporting documentation across concurrent and interdependent requests.
Review client-prepared PBC schedules, workpapers, reconciliations, analyses, and supporting documents for accuracy, completeness, consistency, and audit readiness.
Help clients organize financial information and explain auditor requests and their underlying objectives.
Assist management in preparing audit-ready workpapers, account reconciliations, and supporting analyses.
Analyze financial information and audit support; identify discrepancies, potential audit issues, or documentation gaps and help resolve them.
Monitor audit progress, maintain PBC and request trackers, track outstanding items, and communicate status updates.
Evaluate auditor requests and work with auditors to clarify, consolidate, or appropriately challenge requests when necessary.
Anticipate auditor questions and follow-up requests and work proactively with client teams to address issues.
Collaborate with controllers and accounting leadership to strengthen financial reporting processes and audit readiness.
Support year-end and interim audits, including preparation of PBC schedules and audit support files.
Assist with preparation and review of financial statements, footnotes, and other financial reporting deliverables.
Review accounting memoranda and technical accounting documentation for completeness, consistency with underlying facts, and audit readiness.
Identify process improvement opportunities related to data management, documentation, and audit support.
Mentor junior team members and contribute to best practices across client engagements.
Participate in business development and help expand client relationships through client service and project execution.