Senior Manager

Strategic HR Client Job Openings • Columbus, OH

5h • Hybrid

About The Position

Clark Schaefer Hackett is hiring a Senior Manager in Columbus, Ohio. The Senior Manager serves as the technical authority and final reviewer for an assigned client portfolio, leading Managers and their teams while setting standards for quality, complex accounting treatment, financial statements, and client service. The role oversees portfolio economics and capacity, builds trusted relationships with business owners and decision-makers, and works with clients’ professional advisors. The ideal candidate balances technical judgment, team development, client service, portfolio performance, and business growth in a collaborative, fully paperless team environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
• 8–12 years of public or private accounting experience, including substantial experience with after-the-fact, compilation, or outsourced accounting engagements.
• At least three years of experience leading a high-performing team, including responsibility for written evaluations, ratings, and employee development.
• Demonstrated business development results through scope expansion, referrals, cross-selling, or service migration.
• Advanced Excel skills and expert-level knowledge of QuickBooks Online and Desktop, Xero, Sage 50, and related workpaper, trial balance, and document-management tools.
• Strong knowledge of 1099 filing, sales and use tax, personal property tax, and payroll tax reporting.
• Strong executive presence, research ability, relationship-building skills, and the ability to price and defend fees.
• Ability to work additional hours during time-sensitive client periods and travel occasionally to client or firm locations.

Nice To Haves

• Active CPA license and/or MBA.
• Experience leading or working with a collaborative team.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the final technical reviewer for an assigned client portfolio and approve complex or non-routine accounting treatment.
• Own preparation and compilation standards, workpaper quality, reporting language, independence decisions, and disclosures.
• Approve scope, effort estimates, and pricing for cleanup, catch-up, and multi-period reconstruction engagements.
• Manage portfolio realization, margin, pricing, fee adjustments, billing, client acceptance, and engagement continuance.
• Build relationships with business owners and decision-makers and serve as the primary liaison to tax preparers, auditors, lenders, insurance brokers, and other advisors.
• Lead Managers and their teams to ensure work is timely, accurate, and consistently delivered to standard.
• Oversee staffing, capacity, resource planning, performance evaluations, ratings, compensation recommendations, development, and retention for the assigned book.
• Coach Managers, foster continuous feedback, and participate in recruiting and selecting talent.
• Produce measurable business development results through service expansion, referrals, cross-selling, proposals, and industry involvement.

Benefits

• Five weeks of PTO plus a firm shutdown week.
• Health, dental, and vision benefits.
• Retirement plans.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Parental Leave.
• Hybrid work flexibility.
• Learning and development opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior