Audit Manager/Director - State and Local Government
Green Bay, WIFull-time$85–168K/yrPosted 2w agoStill listed today
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Job overview
CLA is seeking an Audit Director or Audit Manager for its State and Local Government practice in a Midwestern office. The role serves government agencies and supports their audit and financial planning objectives. The manager or director develops client relationships, oversees engagement teams, mentors staff, and monitors engagement budgets and deadlines. Candidates need a bachelor's degree, at least six years of relevant experience, and a CPA license.
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Full job description
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 services. 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 Director/Audit Manager to join our State and Local Government (SLG) practice in any of our Mid-West Offices. 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 Director/ Manager role:
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Manage and develop relationships with great clients.
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Assist clients in obtaining necessary funding to continue to positively impact their community.
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Assist clients with meeting their audit and financial planning objectives by using a range of tools.
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Be creative with staff development, mentoring, and overseeing client engagement teams.
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Lead the engagement progress by monitoring time budgets and deadlines for adherence. Communicate important developments to the engagement principal along with facts, conclusions, and recommendations.
What you will need:
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You have a bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field.
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You have a minimum of 6 years of experience in a large professional services or public accounting firm driving strategic management.
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Experience leading teams of high performing people and managing governmental audits and Single audits strongly preferred
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CPA license certification is required.
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 the position of pay within the range.
The compensation range for this position in Minnesota is $85,000.00-$168,000.00
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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 704 open Audit Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$85–168K/yr
- US median$99–200K/yr569 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $127K, is 16% below the US median midpoint ($151K) — in the lowest quarter of Audit Manager salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 20 open Audit Manager jobs in Wisconsin and 704 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Wisconsin
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience — more than three in four Audit Manager postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 667 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 485 of the 704 open Audit Manager jobs (69%) 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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