Audit Manager POST NUMBER: 309866
Audit Manager CPA
Location: Chicago, IL
Schedule: Full-time onsite, Monday–Friday
Base Salary: $115,000-$160,000, based on experience and qualifications
Benefits: Comprehensive health and welfare benefits, 401(k), paid time off, and additional employee programs
Highspring is conducting a confidential search on behalf of an established public accounting and advisory organization seeking an experienced Audit Manager in Chicago.
This is an opportunity to take ownership of client engagements, lead and develop audit professionals, and work closely with senior leadership. The organization is continuing to invest in its Chicago presence, creating opportunities for increased leadership responsibility and advancement over time.
What You’ll Do
- Manage multiple assurance engagements from planning through completion
- Lead audit teams and review work performed by audit professionals
- Coach, mentor, and develop staff
- Manage engagement timelines, deliverables, budgets, and client expectations
- Build relationships with financial executives and business owners
- Advise clients on accounting and financial reporting matters
- Support select transaction-related and financial analysis projects
- Collaborate directly with senior practice leadership
- Help strengthen and expand the Chicago-based team
- Travel locally to client locations as needed
What We’re Looking For
- Active CPA license required
- 5 years of relevant public accounting audit experience
- Minimum 6 months of experience at the Audit Manager level
- Demonstrated experience managing audit engagements and leading teams
- Experience within a small to midsized public accounting firm strongly preferred
- Experience serving privately held and middle-market businesses strongly preferred
- Exposure to clients with varying ownership structures is beneficial
- Strong client-facing skills, including experience working with senior financial leaders and business owners
- Consistent, progressive work history
- Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Location & Work Requirements
- Five days per week onsite in Chicago
- Candidates must currently live within reasonable commuting distance of the office
- Local travel to client locations is required
- Relocation is not available
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship
- Sponsorship is not available now or in the future
Why Consider the Opportunity?
- Join a Chicago team that is continuing to grow and invest in its local presence
- Work directly with senior leadership in a collaborative, non-siloed environment
- Gain meaningful exposure to CFOs, controllers, and business owners
- Lead and develop audit professionals while helping build the local team
- Work across multiple clients, industries, and engagement types
- Gain exposure beyond traditional audit work through advisory and transaction-related projects
- Take on increasing leadership responsibilities as the Chicago operation expands
- Pursue a defined path for continued promotion and professional growth
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- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.