Audit Senior - State and Local Government
Minneapolis, MNFull-time$72–126K/yrPosted 3w agoStill listed today
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CliftonLarsonAllen is seeking an Audit Senior for its State and Local Government practice in the Minneapolis office. The role plans and leads assurance engagements, performs audit procedures, prepares financial statements and reports, and researches accounting and auditing issues. It also involves coordinating and training team members and maintaining client relationships. Relevant audit experience is required; State and Local Government experience is a plus.
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CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting and outsourcing practices. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.
CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.
CLA is currently seeking an Audit Senior to join our State and Local Government (SLG) practice in our Minneapolis Minnesota office. Our SLG group is one of the fastest growing practice areas within CLA consisting of 600 professionals serving over 2100 local, county, and state government agencies.
How you’ll create opportunities in this Audit Senior role:
- Plan, lead, and execute Assurance engagements to provide excellent client service.
- Working closely with clients and decision makers while performing a wide range of assurance procedures.
- Audit complex areas/transactions and prepare financial statements and related reports.
- Research, analyze, and report on accounting, auditing, and related issues and developments.
- Schedule, delegate, and train team members to help them build inspired careers.
- Collaborate with managers/principals to ensure effective communication and service delivery.
- Get the opportunity to work with many great clients.
- Develop and maintain effective client relationships.
What you will need:
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or related field required.
- 2 years of relevant audit experience required.
- SLG industry experience is a plus.
- CPA or eligible to sit for the CPA exam preferred
Our approach to compensation emphasizes collaboration and career growth. We pay competitive wages and view compensation as an investment in our people. Factors such as geography, experience, education, skills, and knowledge may impact position of pay within the range.
The compensation range for this position in Minnesota is 72,000.00-$126,000.00.
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Wellness at CLA To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.
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How this job compares
Set against the 865 open Audit jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$72–126K/yr
- US median$101–151K/yr583 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $99K, is 23% below the US median midpoint ($129K) — in the lowest quarter of Audit salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 19 open Audit jobs in Minnesota and 865 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Audit postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 749 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 515 of the 865 open Audit jobs (60%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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