CAS Manager

This position serves as the primary contact to HCJ client; supervises completion of projects; schedules, trains, oversees and reviews work of staff and senior accountants.

Responsibilities of a Manager

• Possess Expert-level expertise in all areas of CAS.
• Understand client needs and objectives and be innovated in achieving them.
• Review work of staff.
• Manage client communications and schedules with staff.
• Plan and monitor various types of CAS projects in various industries and complexity levels.
• Plan, organize and use time effectively among team.
• Recruiting
• Ability to coach and mentor talented people.
• Oversee delegation and completion of projects to seniors, staff, and interns.
• Builds positive relationships with clients by determining and meeting their needs and providing quality, timely service
• Seek to grow the firm through personal strategic plan and developing new lines of business and acquiring new clients.
• Develop and monitor quality control procedures.

Additional duties a Manager may perform:

• Serves as a key role in the department’s administration.
• Perform quarterly evaluations on staff and senior accountants.
• Perform tasks necessary to satisfy client by performing “above and beyond the call of duty” if necessary.
• Communicate issues and solutions to clients, ad initiate meetings with clients.
• Active and leadership roles in professional, social, and civic organizations.
• Performing billing on specific clients.
• Keep current in technical matters and communicate developments to staff and clients.
• Assists in recruiting process as needed.

Qualifications

Other knowledge, skills, and abilities

• Understands and maintains the confidentiality of all firm and client information.
• Maintains a high degree of professionalism and integrity
• Maintains professional ethics of firm, AICPA, and ARCPA
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment and handle multiple projects / tasks with an attention to detail.

Education:

• Bachelor of accounting degree
• Consideration towards becoming a Certified Public Accountant

Experience:

• 5 years of public accounting with progression of increased responsibilities

Software:

• Advance proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel)
• Accounting CS, Thomson Reuters, Checkpoint, Engagement, Adobe, QuickBooks

Innovation

• Anticipate and solve problems with original and tailored solutions
• Forward thinking and big picture focused

Ownership

• Self-driven and strives to get the job done in a timely manner without passing the buck
• Total responsibility of knowledge on technical matters
• Provide quality work

Teamwork

• Think of others, humble, loyal and puts the firm first
• Collaborate within the teams
• Develop relationships with peers and attend firm events

Communication

• Effectively exchange meaningful information and ideas on a timely basis with tact and open minds by listening first and asking questions second
• Communicate effectively and professionally
• Keep immediate supervisor informed