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Manager, Client Accounting & Advisory Services (Restaurant, Franchise, & Hospitality)

Aprio· Client Accounting Services – Restaurant, Franchise & Hospitality CAS
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Hybrid (Multiple locations across US)Full-timePosted 5d ago

About the role

Manager, CAAS RFH to lead accounting engagements for clients across the restaurant, franchise, and hospitality industries, serving as primary accounting contact, coaching a team, and driving quality, process improvement, and technology adoption.

Responsibilities

  • Own accounting and financial reporting for assigned clients, including agreed-upon deliverables, deadlines, responsibilities, and scope
  • Lead month-end and year-end close, using technology and automation where appropriate to improve consistency, identify exceptions, and accelerate routine work
  • Prepare and review complete, accurate, and well-supported workpapers that clearly document account activity, reconciliations, conclusions, and the audit trail supporting financial reporting
  • Establish consistent workpaper preparation standards and ensure supporting schedules are organized, current, and ready for efficient review
  • Apply accounting expertise and professional judgment to surface trends, investigate anomalies, and recommend practical solutions
  • Serve as the primary accounting contact and trusted advisor for assigned clients
  • Lead financial reviews that connect operational context and financial data, making results and key performance drivers clear and actionable
  • Help clients improve reporting, forecasting, and workflows so they gain better visibility into their businesses and make stronger decisions
  • Coach engagement teams, building their technical, advisory, and leadership capabilities
  • Provide timely review and feedback while reinforcing firm standards and sound accounting practices
  • Set priorities, balance workloads, and foster accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and thoughtful technology adoption
  • Take on increasing leadership responsibility across client relationships, team development, and engagement performance
  • Maintain strong quality, data privacy, documentation, and internal control standards across engagements
  • Identify and lead practical process improvements, including appropriate uses of automation and AI, that enhance accuracy, efficiency, analysis, and the client experience
  • Monitor scope, efficiency, and profitability and help scale successful workflows across engagements

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
  • Five or more years of progressive accounting experience, including hands-on workpaper preparation, account reconciliations, month-end close, and financial statement preparation or review
  • Strong knowledge of GAAP, core accounting processes, and the professional judgment to evaluate information critically
  • Experience guiding, supervising, or reviewing the work of other accounting professionals
  • Ability to connect financial results to business operations and explain data-driven insights clearly to non-accounting leaders
  • Judgment and organization to manage multiple clients, competing priorities, and deadline-driven deliverables
  • Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, comfort with Microsoft 365 collaboration tools, and curiosity about technologies that improve accounting and advisory work

Skills

Required:Client Accounting & Advisory Services (CAAS)Financial Close & ReportingWorkpaper Preparation & ReviewGAAP & Accounting StandardsMicrosoft Excel & Microsoft 365
Nice to have:Restaurant & Franchise Accounting

Benefits

  • Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance on the first day of employment
  • Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
  • 401k with Profit Sharing
  • 9+ holidays and discretionary time off structure
  • Parental Leave – coverage for both primary and secondary caregivers
  • Tuition Assistance Program and CPA support program with cash incentive upon completion
  • Discretionary incentive compensation based on firm, group and individual performance
  • Incentive compensation related to origination of new client sales
  • Top rated wellness program
  • Flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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