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Audit Senior Manager, Manufacturing

Role overview

Summary

This role is for an Audit Senior Manager at Wipfli, focusing on the MRD practice. You will lead audit engagements for manufacturing and distribution clients, ensuring compliance and delivering insights while fostering client relationships and mentoring team members.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting.
  • CPA certification required.
  • 8-10 years of job related experience with a public accounting firm.
  • Demonstrated experience serving Manufacturing and Distribution clients.
  • Preferred: Proven client relationship skills, with interest or experience in business development.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and oversee complex audit, review, and attest engagements for manufacturing and distribution clients.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior living clients, communicating audit results and financial insights clearly.
  • Build and deepen relationships with existing clients while partnering with engagement leaders.
  • Coach, mentor, and develop associates, seniors, and managers.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Teamwork
  • Mentorship
  • Planning

About the company

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Wipfli

  • Accounting, Audit & Tax
  • Large
  • 1,001–5,000
Always advancing. Always progressing. From curiosity to clarity to results. That’s Wipfli. We’re Wipfli, a top 20 consulting firm serving more than 84,000 clients across today’s most complex industries. For more than 90 years, we have evolved and grown to help our clients take on whatever comes next. Yet as much as we change, at our core we remain committed to curiosity and our clients. Our more than 2,900 associates help our clients with services that range from audit and accounting to digital transformation and managing disruption. We focus on emerging and mid-market organizations with a specialized knowledge in industries like financial institutions, financial services, manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, construction, real estate, government, nonprofit, agriculture, auto dealerships, technology and tribal gaming and government. Our mission to create a lasting, positive impact extends beyond our clients to our associates and communities. We believe in a workplace — and world — where everyone feels included and diversity is embraced. To foster that, we are committed to creating an environment where everyone is equally supported, empowered and encouraged. Through initiatives focused on leadership, recruitment, training and diverse business resource groups, we will continue to become a more inclusive firm and build the workforce of the future. We know that diversity makes us all stronger. Visit www.wipfli.com/EmailSignup to sign up for our specialized newsletters about issues impacting your business. You can also find us on Facebook and Twitter at: - Twitter: www.twitter.com/Wipfli_LLP - Facebook: www.facebook.com/WipfliLLP Specialties: audit and accounting; Process and performance management; digital strategy, e-commerce and user experience; Information technology, systems and cybersecurity; managing disruption; sales and customer service; capital and financial strength; and human resources.

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Job description

Overview:

At Wipfli, people count.

At Wipfli, our people are core to everything we do—the catalyst behind our ability to create exceptional impact and extraordinary results. 

We believe in flexibility. We focus on relationships. We encourage each individual to follow their own path. 

People truly matter and they feel it. For those looking to make a difference and find a professional home, Wipfli offers a career-defining opportunity. 

Wipfli is seeking an experienced Audit & Accounting Senior Manager to serve our growing MRD practice.  Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

  • Lead and oversee complex audit, review, and attest engagements for manufacturing and distribution clients, ensuring compliance with firm and professional standards
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to senior living clients, communicating audit results, financial insights, and emerging accounting or regulatory issues clearly and effectively
  • Build and deepen relationships with existing clients while partnering with engagement leaders to enhance service delivery
  • Plan and manage engagement staffing, schedules, and budgets, leveraging both U.S.-based and international team members
  • Coach, mentor, and develop associates, seniors, and managers, with opportunities to take on performance coaching or people leadership responsibilities over time
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
  • CPA certification required 
  • Requires 8-10 years of job related experience with a public accounting firm.
  • Demonstrated experience serving Manufacturing and Distribution clients  
  • Proven client relationship skills, with interest or experience in business development and practice growth
  • Management and/or mentoring experience with other staff members

Kristin Kallies, from our recruiting team, will be guiding you through this process. Visit her LinkedIn page to connect! 

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Additional Details:

Additional Details:

Wipfli is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All candidates will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, creed, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local laws. 

Wipfli is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete an application, interview, or participate in our recruiting process, please send us an email at hr@wipfli.com

Wipfli values fair, transparent, and competitive compensation, considering each candidate's unique skills and experiences. The estimated base pay range for this role is $142,000 to $200,000, with offers typically not made at the maximum, allowing for future salary increases. The actual salary at the time of offer depends on business related factors like location, skills, experience, training/education, licensure, certifications, business needs, current associate pay, and relevant employment laws.

Individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus, subject to participation rules and based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual and Firm performance.

Wipfli cares about our associates and offers a variety of benefits to support their well-being. Highlights include 8 health plan options (both HMO & PPO plans), dental and vision coverage, opportunity to enroll in HSA with potential Firm contribution and an Employee Assistance Program. Other benefits include firm-sponsored basic life and short and long-term disability coverage, a 401(k) savings plan & profit share as well as Firm matching contribution, well-being incentive, education & certification assistance, flexible time off, family care leave, parental leave, family formation benefits, cell phone reimbursement, and travel rewards. Voluntary benefit offerings include critical illness & accident insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, legal, long-term care, pet insurance, ID theft protection, and supplemental life/AD&D. Eligibility for all benefits programs is dependent on annual hours expectation, position status/level and location.

"Wipfli" is the brand name under which Wipfli LLP and Wipfli Advisory LLC and its respective subsidiary entities provide professional services. Wipfli LLP and Wipfli Advisory LLC (and its respective subsidiary entities) practice in an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable law, regulations, and professional standards. Wipfli LLP is a licensed independent CPA firm that provides attest services to its clients, and Wipfli Advisory LLC provides tax and business consulting services to its clients. Wipfli Advisory LLC and its subsidiary entities are not licensed CPA firms.

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