Public Sector Consulting Manager

Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:

At Crowe, you have the opportunity to deliver innovative solutions to today’s complex business issues. Crowe’s accounting, consulting, and technology personnel are widely recognized for their in-depth expertise and understanding of sophisticated process frameworks and enabling technologies, along with their commitment to delivering measurable results that help clients build business value. Our focus on emerging technology solutions along with our commitment to internal career growth and exceptional client value has resulted in a firm that is routinely recognized as a “Best Place to Work.” We are 75 years strong and still growing. Come grow with us! 

Job Description:

Crowe’s core purpose is Shaping Your Better Tomorrow. Together. Today. In the Consulting Public Sector practice (governmental, not-for-profit, higher education), we are Shaping Your Better Tomorrow by enabling you to focus on your passion, wherever that may lie. For our clients, a better tomorrow is about investing in relationships, building trust, and ultimately delivering high-quality services that help them solve some of society’s toughest challenges.

By joining the Consulting public sector practice, you are helping your local communities be more transparent, develop strong fiscal stewardship and enhance processes and internal controls. You focus on excellence in everything you do, are passionate about continued learning, and are excited about the opportunity to see a breadth of business types and how technology intersects everything we do. It excites you to be a part of growing a business – for Crowe and for our clients. That’s why you want to be part of our team.

When you join our team, you commit to working Together as an inclusive team, Today and every day, guided by Crowe’s core values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship.  You will be responsible for:

• Providing services which may include accounting consulting, risk management, business process reviews, client training, compliance examinations, internal audits, performance audits, risk assessments, and subrecipient monitoring
• Managing and leading engagements including developing engagement plans and workpaper templates, reviewing workpapers completed by staff and drafting reports
• ?Developing and maintaining key relationships with client influencers and decision makers and identify new opportunities at new and existing clients
• Supervising and managing teams on engagements, including setting performance expectations, providing feedback, guidance and motivation to staff, and managing budgets, engagement status and progress (to client and engagement leadership), billings and collections
• Performing or reviewing the work of others in all phases of opportunities and engagements, including proposals, planning, fieldwork, workpapers to support conclusions, discussing findings and observations with management, reports, presentations and status of various types and formats
• Draft recommendations for various engagements (e.g., audit finding recommendations, business process improvements, corrective action plans, value-add, etc.)
• Providing other value-added recommendations both to our clients and to help improve the firm
• Supporting and/or leading internal initiatives related to people engagement, strategy and innovation
• Support business development activities

Qualifications

Educational and Professional Credentials

• Bachelor’s Degree is required; Major in Accountancy, or a Business degree with an Accounting Minor or emphasis is preferred
• Certified Internal Auditor (CIA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or other relevant professional certification is required
• Background of 5 years of accounting or audit experience
• 2 years of Governmental experience preferred
• Effective written and verbal communication
• Knowledge of GASB, GAGAS, IPPF standards preferred
• Willingness to travel up to 30% annually

Preferred Knowledge and Skills

• Prior experience should include progressive responsibilities, including supervising, reviewing and managing the work of others, project management, including self-management of simultaneous work-streams and responsibilities
• Strong written and verbal communication and comprehension both formally and informally to our clients, prospective clients, and our teams, in a variety of formats and settings, including in interviews, meetings, calls, e-mails, reports, process narratives, presentations, etc.
• Internal control design and effectiveness understanding
• GAAP financial accounting
• Networking and relationship management

Build a Successful Future in Consulting

At Crowe, Consulting professionals provide thought leadership, process expertise, technology insight and help clients identify, assess, evaluate, and reduce risks. Our Consulting professionals serve large organizations across many industries in an environment where innovation and new ideas are highly encouraged. Through various programs, we provide you with learning and reinvention through high-impact formal and systemic training, including industry, solution, technology, and consulting training, as well as certification. You will be part of a strong global team environment with a fast-paced, challenging, and collaborative setting.

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Our Benefits:

At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!

How You Can Grow:

We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!

More about Crowe:

Crowe (www.crowe.com) is one of the largest public accounting, consulting and technology firms in the United States. Crowe uses its deep industry expertise to provide audit services to public and private entities while also helping clients reach their goals with tax, advisory, risk and performance services. Crowe is recognized by many organizations as one of the country's best places to work. Crowe serves clients worldwide as an independent member of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory services firms in more than 130 countries around the world.

Crowe LLP provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.