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Manages accounting advisory engagements involving complex transactions, divestitures, carve-outs, SEC filings, and financial reporting. Advises clients and audit teams on accounting policies, leads multiple engagement teams, develops client relationships, identifies solutions, and supervises and trains junior staff. Requires an active CPA license, at least five years of relevant experience, strong US GAAP and SEC reporting knowledge, leadership skills, and willingness to travel approximately 30%.

Leads accounting advisory engagements involving complex transactions, mergers, acquisitions, IPOs, divestitures, carve-outs, SEC filings, and financial statements. Advises clients, supervises audit staff, resolves technical issues, identifies market trends, and represents the firm at recruiting events. Requires at least two years of audit or transaction advisory experience, strong US GAAP and SEC reporting knowledge, leadership skills, and willingness to travel 30%.

Leads HR consulting engagements focused on HR operating model design, organizational design, and large-scale people transformations. Advises C-suite and senior HR leaders, develops transformation road maps and business cases, oversees multi-workstream initiatives, supports proposals and sales, builds thought leadership, and mentors consulting teams. The role requires deep HR value-chain expertise, executive communication, stakeholder influence, and up to 50% travel.

Supports data governance for acquired-company integration initiatives by maintaining inventories, metadata, ownership records, retention documentation, quality trackers, lineage, issue logs, and readiness materials. Reviews structured and unstructured content, coordinates data stewards and cross-functional stakeholders, documents privacy and compliance requirements, tracks approvals and legal holds, and assists with migration, archival, decommissioning, and analytics enablement activities.

Manages the design, administration, analysis, and continuous improvement of compensation programs. Leads benchmarking, salary structure development, annual pay processes, market reviews, pay equity and regulatory compliance activities. Provides compensation consulting to HR partners and business leaders, analyzes compensation data, supports hiring offers, develops communications, and oversees related projects, systems, reporting, and stakeholder engagement.

Supports strategy consulting engagements for private equity and growth-focused clients through market research, data analysis, financial modeling, operational due diligence, pricing, growth strategy, and performance improvement work. Develops client presentations, actionable recommendations, implementation plans, and financial impact analyses while participating in client meetings and project execution.

Leads product technology diligence for private equity and strategic clients, evaluating software architecture, scalability, security, roadmaps, technical debt, engineering organizations, AI and data maturity, and financial sustainability. Translates technology findings into valuation, growth, margin, capital investment, and EBITDA implications. Leads management interviews, prepares executive-ready reports, presents findings to deal teams, mentors junior staff, and supports proposals and commercial structuring.

Leads HR and Payroll transformation consulting engagements, including operating model assessments, HCM implementations, system selection, process redesign, governance, and compliance improvement. Advises client executives, develops future-state roadmaps, manages project delivery, leads workshops, builds client relationships, mentors teams, contributes to thought leadership, and supports proposals, pricing, and practice growth.

Leads global indirect tax consulting engagements, addressing complex technical issues, reviewing tax analyses and documentation, preparing written advice, monitoring state and local tax developments, developing service tools, delivering training, and managing staff and competing priorities.

Leads private-equity value creation engagements, assessing operating models, cost structures, supply chains, manufacturing, carve-outs, integrations, and EBITDA improvement opportunities. Builds consulting practice methodologies, thought leadership, and growth strategy; oversees projects, mentors teams, develops client relationships, supports pitches, and delivers recommendations under transaction timelines. Requires extensive management consulting, transaction, private equity, operations improvement, and team leadership experience, with 25–50% client travel.