Assurance Principal or Signing Director - Financial Services
Bellevue, WAFull-time$150–400K/yrPosted 1mo agoStill listed today
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CliftonLarsonAllen is seeking a Principal or Signing Director to help grow its Financial Services Assurance team in a Pacific Northwest office. The role leads assurance engagements for financial institutions, owns client relationships, drives business development, and oversees engagement quality, budgets, staffing, and delivery. It also includes reviewing financial statements and audit workpapers, collaborating across the firm, and mentoring assurance professionals.
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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.
As part of our continued strategic growth, CLA is seeking a Principal or Signing Director to join our Financial Services Assurance team in one of our Pacific Northwest offices. This role is designed for a motivated leader who is excited to help build and grow our presence in the market while contributing to an established, high-performing team.
How you’ll create impact in this Assurance role:
- Lead assurance engagements for financial institutions, ensuring quality, compliance, and timely delivery.
- Serve as the primary client relationship owner and trusted advisor for a portfolio of financial services clients.
- Drive business development through networking, thought leadership, community involvement, and growth of a book of business.
- Manage engagement scope, fees, budgets, deadlines, and overall client satisfaction.
- Review and approve financial statements, audit workpapers, engagement letters, and deliverables.
- Provide engagement leadership, including staffing, risk management, quality control, and project oversight.
- Maintain year-round relationships with clients, identifying opportunities to expand services and deepen partnerships.
- Collaborate across the firm to bring specialized resources and solutions to clients.
- Mentor and develop high-performing assurance professionals through coaching, feedback, and career development.
- Communicate regularly with clients and engagement teams regarding progress, risks, findings, and recommendations.
What you will need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 8+ years of public accounting experience, including financial statement audits and related reporting.
- Active CPA license required.
- Strong knowledge of banking and financial services industry
- Ability to travel to client sites as needed.
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 role in Washington is $150,000 – $400,000
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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 315 open Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$150–400K/yr
- US median$100–202K/yr233 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $275K, is 82% above the US median midpoint ($151K) — in the top quarter of Assurance salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 315 open Assurance jobs across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 273 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 201 of the 315 open Assurance jobs (64%) 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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