Accounting + Advisory Services Supervisor Do you want a career without limits? Do you want to shape your own future and be surrounded by people who listen? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you at Smith + Howard.
Smith + Howard is a family of companies that offers tax, audit, accounting and advisory and wealth management services. We are headquartered in Atlanta with offices across the Southeast, while still offering a local firm flavor.
We offer competitive pay, excellent training opportunities, and great benefits. You can help influence our culture and have the support and dedication from our leaders to help you achieve your career goals. Smith + Howard provides a great opportunity for professional growth and advancement within one of Atlanta’s top companies.
If you are ready to make a career move and join a firm consistently named an “AJC Top Workplace” and a “Best of the Best Firms” (Inside Public Accounting), we invite you to complete our employment application.
Summary The Smith and Howard Accounting and Advisory Services team provides an entrepreneurial environment for individuals to improve their skills, think creatively, and take ownership of their career development. Your desire for new experiences, team achievement, and client service will fuel your career advancement within our practice. Make your career and office environment what you want it to be.
As a Supervisor within Accounting and Advisory Services, you will be a client liaison with a team of accountants who fulfill outsourced accounting, business processes, controllership, and financial planning and analysis engagements. Your clients span a broad range of industries and have complex needs, including consolidations, foreign currency accounting, and consulting on best practices.
Essential Functions
- Supervise recurring outsourced controllership engagements, business advisory services, and ad hoc projects, ensuring quality deliverables and timely completion.
- Lead client implementation meetings, establish engagement expectations, and coordinate deliverables, timelines, and team responsibilities.
- Prepare payroll tax return forms 1099, W-2, 941, 940, and required state forms.
- Review financial statements, account reconciliations, workpapers, payroll tax returns, and supporting schedules under multiple bases of accounting, including cash and accrual.
- Advise clients on budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, and operational and accounting challenges, providing practical solutions and recommendations.
- Analyze financial and operational results, KPIs, and trends using reporting tools to identify risks, improve processes, and support management decision-making.
- Lead process improvement and technology initiatives, including system implementations, automation, AI, and data analytics.
- Supervise, coach, and develop team members through delegation, technical training, workpaper review, and ongoing feedback.
- Maintain knowledge of U.S. GAAP, applicable tax requirements, and professional standards while adhering to firm policies regarding ethics and client confidentiality.
Position Requirements + Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or another relevant degree program. + CPA license preferred. + 5 plus years of accounting experience, including three or more years of public accounting in client accounting and advisory services. + Comfortable working hybrid out of our Chattanooga office