Manager, Client Accounting & Advisory Services (Restaurant, Franchise, & Hospitality)

Work with a Top 20 CPA and advisory firm that Accounts for Anything. Aprio has 40 U.S. office locations, as well as international office locations and more than 3,200 team members that speak 60+ languages across the globe. By bringing together proven expertise, deep understanding, and strategic foresight for fast-growing industries, Aprio ensures clients are prepared for wherever life or business may take them. Discover a top-rated culture, vast growth opportunities and your next big career move with Aprio.

Aprio is seeking a Manager, Client Accounting Advisory Services - Restaurant, Franchise & Hospitality (CAAS RFH) to lead accounting engagements for clients across the restaurant, franchise, and hospitality industries. In this role, you will serve as the primary accounting contact and trusted advisor for assigned clients, combining technical expertise, operational insight, and team leadership to deliver accurate and timely financial reporting. You will coach and develop a team of accounting professionals while driving quality, process improvement, and technology adoption across engagements. This is an opportunity to grow your leadership impact while shaping meaningful outcomes for the clients and teams you serve.

What You'll Gain/ Impact

• Clients will receive accurate, complete, and timely financial reporting they can rely on to run their businesses

• Your advisory insights will help clients understand what is driving results and make stronger, more informed decisions

• Workpapers will be complete, clearly documented, and consistently prepared to support financial reporting and review

• Your team will have clear priorities, meaningful coaching, and the support needed to grow and deliver consistently

• Engagements will become more efficient, scalable, and valuable through thoughtful process improvement and technology adoption

Key Responsibilities

Client Accounting & Financial Reporting

• Own accounting and financial reporting for assigned clients, including agreed-upon deliverables, deadlines, responsibilities, and scope
• Lead month-end and year-end close, using technology and automation where appropriate to improve consistency, identify exceptions, and accelerate routine work
• Prepare and review complete, accurate, and well-supported workpapers that clearly document account activity, reconciliations, conclusions, and the audit trail supporting financial reporting
• Establish consistent workpaper preparation standards and ensure supporting schedules are organized, current, and ready for efficient review
• Apply accounting expertise and professional judgment to surface trends, investigate anomalies, and recommend practical solutions

Client Leadership & Advisory

• Serve as the primary accounting contact and trusted advisor for assigned clients
• Lead financial reviews that connect operational context and financial data, making results and key performance drivers clear and actionable
• Help clients improve reporting, forecasting, and workflows so they gain better visibility into their businesses and make stronger decisions

Team Leadership & Review

• Coach engagement teams, building their technical, advisory, and leadership capabilities
• Provide timely review and feedback while reinforcing firm standards and sound accounting practices
• Set priorities, balance workloads, and foster accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and thoughtful technology adoption
• Take on increasing leadership responsibility across client relationships, team development, and engagement performance

Quality, Process & Engagement Management

• Maintain strong quality, data privacy, documentation, and internal control standards across engagements
• Identify and lead practical process improvements, including appropriate uses of automation and AI, that enhance accuracy, efficiency, analysis, and the client experience
• Monitor scope, efficiency, and profitability and help scale successful workflows across engagements
• Own accounting and financial reporting for assigned clients, including agreed-upon deliverables, deadlines, responsibilities, and scope
• Lead month-end and year-end close, using technology and automation where appropriate to improve consistency, identify exceptions, and accelerate routine work
• Prepare and review complete, accurate, and well-supported workpapers that clearly document account activity, reconciliations, conclusions, and the audit trail supporting financial reporting
• Establish consistent workpaper preparation standards and ensure supporting schedules are organized, current, and ready for efficient review
• Apply accounting expertise and professional judgment to surface trends, investigate anomalies, and recommend practical solutions

Client Leadership & Advisory

• Serve as the primary accounting contact and trusted advisor for assigned clients
• Lead financial reviews that connect operational context and financial data, making results and key performance drivers clear and actionable
• Help clients improve reporting, forecasting, and workflows so they gain better visibility into their businesses and make stronger decisions

Team Leadership & Review

• Coach engagement teams, building their technical, advisory, and leadership capabilities
• Provide timely review and feedback while reinforcing firm standards and sound accounting practices
• Set priorities, balance workloads, and foster accountability, collaboration, continuous learning, and thoughtful technology adoption
• Take on increasing leadership responsibility across client relationships, team development, and engagement performance

Quality, Process & Engagement Management

• Maintain strong quality, data privacy, documentation, and internal control standards across engagements
• Identify and lead practical process improvements, including appropriate uses of automation and AI, that enhance accuracy, efficiency, analysis, and the client experience
• Monitor scope, efficiency, and profitability and help scale successful workflows across engagements

Candidate Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field
• Five or more years of progressive accounting experience, including hands-on workpaper preparation, account reconciliations, month-end close, and financial statement preparation or review
• Strong knowledge of GAAP, core accounting processes, and the professional judgment to evaluate information critically
• Experience guiding, supervising, or reviewing the work of other accounting professionals
• Ability to connect financial results to business operations and explain data-driven insights clearly to non-accounting leaders
• Judgment and organization to manage multiple clients, competing priorities, and deadline-driven deliverables
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, comfort with Microsoft 365 collaboration tools, and curiosity about technologies that improve accounting and advisory work

Preferred:

• CPA or equivalent certification
• Experience supporting restaurant, franchise, hospitality, multi-entity, or multi-location businesses
• Background in outsourced accounting, CAS, public accounting, or another multi-client professional-services environment
• Experience improving accounting, reporting, analytics, or client-service workflows through technology or automation

Leadership Skills

• Building Relationships

• Driving ExecutionTeam

• Development

• Client Focus

• AdaptabilityCommunication

• Continuous Improvement

• Coaching & Feedback

Technical Skills

• Client Accounting & Advisory Services (CAAS)

• Financial Close & Reporting

• Workpaper Preparation & Review

• GAAP & Accounting Standards

• Restaurant & Franchise Accounting

• Microsoft Excel & Microsoft 365

• Process Improvement & Automation

• Multi-Client Engagement Management

Why work for Aprio:

Whether you are just starting out, looking to advance into management or searching for your next leadership role, Aprio offers an opportunity to grow with a future-focused, innovative firm.

Perks/Benefits we offer for full-time team members:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance on the first day of employment
• Flexible Spending Account and Dependent Care Account
• 401k with Profit Sharing
• 9+ holidays and discretionary time off structure
• Parental Leave - coverage for both primary and secondary caregivers
• Tuition Assistance Program and CPA support program with cash incentive upon completion
• Discretionary incentive compensation based on firm, group and individual performance
• Incentive compensation related to origination of new client sales
• Top rated wellness program
• Flexible working environment including remote and hybrid options

What's in it for you:

• Working with an industry leader: Be part of a high-growth firm that is passionate for what's next.
• An awesome culture: Thirty-one fundamental behaviors guide our culture every day ensuring we always deliver an exceptional team-member and client experience. We call it the Aprio Way. This shared mindset creates lasting relationships between team members and with clients.
• A great team: Work with a high-energy, passionate, caring and ambitious team of professionals in a collaborative culture.
• Entrepreneurship: Have the freedom to innovate and bring your ideas to help us grow to become the CPA firm of choice nationally.
• Growth opportunities: Grow professionally in an environment that fosters continuous learning and advancement.
• Competitive compensation: You will be rewarded with competitive compensation, industry-leading benefits and a flexible work environment to enjoy work/life balance.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

Aprio is an Equal Opportunity Employer encouraging diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; religion; national origin; sex; pregnancy; sexual orientation; gender identity and/or expression; age; disability; genetic information, citizenship status; military service obligations or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Aprio, LLP and Aprio Advisory Group, LLC, operate in an alternative business structure, with Aprio Advisory Group, LLC providing non-attest tax and consulting services, and Aprio, LLP providing CPA firm services.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.