BDO USA, LLP

Senior Manager, Accounting & Reporting Advisory Services

BDO USA, LLP$110K — $130K *
Legal & Accounting
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA preferred
  • 8+ years of professional experience
  • Strong analytical and communication skills
  • Experienced in project planning and management
  • Client-facing consulting experience preferred
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required
  • Familiarity with ERP systems preferred

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the main contact for clients and engagement leads
  • Deliver exceptional client service and develop solutions to issues
  • Establish project budget and recommend scope changes
  • Prepare billings and manage engagement adjustments
  • Develop and maintain strategic client relationships
  • Create presentations for client meetings
  • Identify new business opportunities and communicate them to leadership
  • Administer and update project plans and documentation
  • Manage tasks to ensure timely completion and communication

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a dynamic and supportive team environment
  • Eligible for professional development and mentorship opportunities
  • Increase your visibility through client-facing roles and presentations
  • Engagement in marketing and business development activities
  • Potential to travel as part of project responsibilities
Full Job Description
Job Description

Job Summary:

The Accounting & Reporting Advisory Services Senior Project Manager will be part of an Accounting & Reporting Advisory Services team supporting projects in the areas of accounting advisory, SEC reporting, and capital markets transactions

Job Duties:
  • Acts as primary contact for clients and/or engagement team leads regarding all questions and information, including progress, challenges encountered, and issues identified
  • Provides exceptional client service and develops advanced level deliverables and/or solutions to client issues
  • Establishes engagement budget, provides recommendations for project scope and underlying pricing changes, as needed
  • Prepares periodic and timely billings, and manages adjustments to engagement realization, as needed
  • Identifies, grows, and maintains strategic relationships with client personnel, including members of client management
  • Prepares formal and informal presentations for client meetings
  • Identifies new business opportunities to expand the Accounting & Reporting Advisory Services practice and communicates such opportunities to his/her engagement leaders
  • Participates in marketing and business development activities within practice
  • Drafts proposals and reports, and completes research, when needed
  • Administers project plans
  • Communicates and oversees the project plan making updates as directed by the management team
  • Manages tasks closely to make sure they are being completed and in a timely manner
  • Gathers deliverables and distributes project documents appropriately
  • Documents information from internal project meetings
  • Identifies and tracks any gaps or issues in the project
  • Schedules meetings with the management team and the project team
  • Escalates any issues to management as needed
  • Prepares and distributes project communications
  • Fosters a positive demeanor, learning attitude and client service mentality with client and ARAS team members
  • Other specific duties as required by individual clients

Supervisory Responsibilities:
  • May supervise the day-to-day workload of other personnel on assigned engagements and reviews work products
  • Acts as mentor to others, as appropriate

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education:
  • Bachelor's degree, required
  • MBA, preferred

Experience:
  • Eight (8) or more years of professional experience, required
  • Strong analytical, facilitation, documentation, and communication skills, required
  • Strong project planning, scoping and management skills, required
  • Strong business process analysis & design and process flow skills or a strong understanding of Technology, Operations, or Finance functions, required
  • Client facing consulting experience, preferred
  • Project Management experience, preferred

License/Certifications:
  • PMP, required

Software:
  • ERP knowledge, preferred
  • Knowledge of project management practices, preferred

Language:
  • N/A

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Excellent interpersonal and customer relationship skills
  • Detail oriented
  • Able to work in a deadline-driven environment
  • Capable of successfully multi-tasking while working independently or within a group environment
  • Professional demeanor
  • Strong problem identification and solving skills
  • Able to travel 25% to perhaps as much as 50% of the time, as needed


About BDO USA, LLP

BDO USA, LLP is a professional services firm providing assurance, tax, and advisory services to a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies. The company was founded in 1910 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. BDO USA has more than 60 offices and over 5,000 employees throughout the United States. The company is a member of the BDO International network, which has more than 1,500 offices in over 160 countries.
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