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Senior Manager, Accounting and Financial Advisory Services

Baker Tilly · IL · $179,850–$340,970 a year · Full time

Posted Aug 20, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026

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About your past

Tell me about a time a client's controller disagreed with your recommendation. How did it end?

What they are checking: Whether they can hold a technical position with a senior client without damaging the relationship.

How have you grown a client relationship into new work without it feeling like a sales pitch?

What they are checking: Whether a senior manager can find real follow-on needs, since that is how the role is measured at this level.

Tell me about someone you coached from staff to senior. What did you actually do differently with them?

What they are checking: Whether they develop people deliberately or just assign work and review it.

What would you do

A client is adopting ASC 842 late and their lease data is spread across three spreadsheets and a filing cabinet. How do you run that engagement?

What they are checking: Whether they can turn messy client data into a defensible, auditable process on a deadline.

You have two seniors and a staff on an IPO readiness project and the client keeps moving the S-1 date up. How do you staff and pace it?

What they are checking: Whether they can manage scope, people and client expectations at the same time without burning out the team.

You find an error in a purchase accounting entry your team delivered last quarter. The client hasn't noticed. What do you do?

What they are checking: Integrity under pressure, and whether they handle their own mistakes openly and quickly.

About the work

Walk me through a technical accounting memo you wrote on a hard judgment call. What was the issue and where did you land?

What they are checking: Whether they can reason through ambiguous guidance and document a position an auditor will accept.

How do you decide whether a revenue contract has one performance obligation or several under ASC 606?

What they are checking: Depth on revenue recognition, which drives most of the hard calls in accounting advisory work.

Baker Tilly runs advisory and attest through separate entities. How do you think about independence when an audit client of the firm wants your help?

What they are checking: Whether they understand that advisory work for attest clients has limits and will check before saying yes.

What does a good close process look like, and what are the first things you check when a client's close takes fifteen days?

What they are checking: Practical knowledge of where close processes break, which is core to finance transformation advice.

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The full job description

As published by Baker Tilly.

Overview Baker Tilly is a leading advisory, tax and assurance firm, providing clients with a genuine coast-to-coast and global advantage in major regions of the U.S. and in many of the world’s leading financial centers – New York, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP (Baker Tilly) provide professional services through an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable laws, regulations and professional standards. Baker Tilly US, LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities provide tax and business advisory services to their clients. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms. Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP and Baker Tilly US, LLP, trading as Baker Tilly, are independent members of Baker Tilly International, a worldwide network of independent accounting and business advisory firms in 141 territories, with 43,000 professionals and a combined worldwide revenue of $5.2 billion. Visit bakertilly.com or join the conversation on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram. Please discuss the work location status with your Baker Tilly talent acquisition professional to understand the requirements for an opportunity you are exploring. Baker Tilly is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable federal, state or local law. Any unsolicited resumes submitted through our website or to Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, employee e-mail accounts are considered property of Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorized recruitment agency ("search firm") for Baker Tilly Advisory Group, LP, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by Baker Tilly's Talent Attraction team, to submit candidates for review via our applicant tracking system. Job Description: Baker Tilly is currently searching for a Senior Manager to join our CFO Accounting Advisory practice. As a Senior Manager in CFO Accounting Advisory, you will provide strong leadership, communication, project management, and team building skills to your teams to solve a particular business problem or improve a particular process, generally related to the finance or accounting functions of the client’s organization. You will collaborate with managers and partners within the group as you review work product and participate actively in client meetings and planning efforts. You will work with Financial Advisory Partners and others, as well as independently, to identify and pursue business development initiatives and to win specific engagement opportunities through scoping and budgeting engagement needs. Responsibilities: • Lead efforts to achieve client satisfaction through engagement oversight and interaction with client executives and engagement sponsors • Be accessible and anticipate client needs, questions, and issues • Schedule internal and external deadlines to meet client expectations for delivery • Interact at the highest levels of client organizations • Resourceful at gaining exposure to client activities offering potential for application of firm services • Display broad understanding of activities and interests of other disciplines and play pivotal role in gaining client interest • Establish record of gaining client use of wide range of firm services • Set and achieve challenging profitability, billing, and collection objectives consistent with circumstances of the engagement, proper utilization of staff, and attention to risk • Handle heavy load, including complex/demanding clients • Achieve high visibility for delivery of quality services in both routine and complex situations requiring innovation while being sought out as consulting resource • Understand firm’s strategy, practice areas, and service offerings and participate in proposals and presentations leading to new engagements • Create opportunities to gain new clients • Develop and maintain relationships with colleagues in the office, other service lines, and engagement/project teams • Regularly look for opportunities, recommendations, and additional firm services that could benefit client • Play major role in implementation of technical/industry/functional programs while being acknowledged as an expert in the firm • Lead by example to positively impact employee morale • Contribute to firm’s efforts to attract, retain, and develop staff and managers and act as mentor for other managers and senior staff • Attains positions of leadership in designated business/professional organizations providing advantageous new business opportunities Qualifications • Eight (8+) years' experience in a large accounting firm in audit, financial advisory or transaction service lines • Five (5)+ years’ of supervisory experience, mentoring and counseling associates • Relevant bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or related • Certified public accountant (CPA) • High motivation, initiative and positive attitude • Excellent organizational skills with a demonstrated ability to multitask and handle multiple priorities appropriately • Intermediate modeling and excel skills, experience conducting complex quantitative and qualitative financial analysis and ability to generate data-driven insights • Ability to work autonomously, to meet tight deadlines, and to thrive in a fast paced environment with shifting priorities • Excellent verbal and written communication, experience presenting analyses to management and ability to lead and drive initiatives • Ability to work effectively and thrive in a team environment with all levels of client personnel in various industries • Ability to comfortably interact with senior level client personnel, including supporting the preparation of and participating in executive briefings, board meetings, and investor presentations The pay rate range for this job position is $ 179,850 to $ 340,970 . Actual compensation is influenced by a variety of relevant factors including but not limited to applicant’s skills, prior experience, qualifications, degrees, professional certifications, work arrangements and geographic location. Baker Tilly offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to eligible employees.

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