Senior Consultant, Accounting and Finance Advisory Services

Chicago, IL, United States

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.

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Responsibilities

We are currently searching for a

Senior Consultant

to join our Corporate Finance and Forensics practice within our Transaction and Financial Advisory team. Our practice

helps CFOs, Controllers, and Finance Directors improve the financial reporting processes to ensure that finance adds value to business operations. The CFO Advisory practice enables finance executives to achieve significant and sustainable performance through technical analysis and process improvement services.

Our clients range from emerging growth companies to publicly traded companies. We serve a wide variety of industries including technology, business services, manufacturing/ distribution, energy, real estate, hospitality and retail, and private equity to name a few.

Baker Tilly's CFO Advisory Services team is comprised of practitioners across the country. Our goal is to solve problems or make improvements that will free the finance organization up so that they can focus on growing and improving their overall business.

This practice area has professionals with multi-disciplines and experiences that are drawn upon to assist our clients with very practical and hands-on support. We have senior team members that have served as Chief Financial Officers, Controllers, financial statement auditors, and financial analysts that are all highly credentialed. It is a high performing team that enjoys learning from one another and serving our clients.

Your immediate responsibilities will be to:

Actively participate in projects focused on the following service offerings:

Finance Performance Improvement

Business Analytics and Decision Support

Financial Accounting Advisory Services

Transaction Support

Program/Project Management

Participate actively in the team’s work on a project (i.e. “roll up your sleeves” and work with the team)

Interact directly with managers and partners on matters related to client and engagement management

Strengthen existing client relationships by providing outstanding client service

Communicate with business owners, executive management, investors, lenders and other sophisticated parties to ensure delivery of exceptional client service

Invest in professional development through active participation in training sessions and networking events both internally and externally

Assist with recruiting activities to include campus recruiting along with referring experienced individuals to the firm and participating in the firm's Employee Referral Bonus Program

Demonstrate excellent team skills, positive attitude and high ethical standards

Qualifications

Successful candidates will have:

Two (2) plus years' experience in a large accounting firm in audit, financial advisory service line

Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance or related field

Certified public accountant (CPA)

K nowledge and ability to use appropriate tools, applications, and accounting and finance concepts to facilitate analysis. Skills with Power BI and/ or Tableau is a plus.

Exposure to Middle Market financial suite of applications, such as QuickBooks, NetSuite, IntAcct, etc. , their functionality, workflows, automated controls, and associated facilitation of data consolidation, reporting, and robust analytics and their relationship to addressing myriad business requirements is a plus.

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

Ability to work effectively and thrive in a team environment

Additional Information

For California, Colorado, New York and Washington: The compensation range for this role is $86,660 to $187,790. Actual compensation is influenced by a variety of factors including but not limited to skills, experience, qualifications, and geographic location.

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