Principal - Valuation
New York City, NYFull-time$340–400K/yrPosted 5 days agoStill listed today
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CLA is seeking a Principal to lead its Valuations team and drive firm growth through new client relationships and integrated service delivery. The role oversees complex valuation work across financial reporting, transactions, tax, litigation, and strategic planning, while building team capabilities, operational excellence, and thought leadership. The Principal also carries Client Relationship Leader responsibilities.
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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 a Principal to join our Valuations team. This role drives firm growth through developing new client relationships while ensuring seamless delivery of integrated firm capabilities; recognized for impact in industry and community. Develops opportunities for CLA's Valuation practice by delivering valuation services that support financial reporting, business and management planning, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, gift and estate tax reporting, tax planning and restructuring, litigation and dispute support, and strategic planning.
How you'll create opportunities in this role:
- Drive firm-wide delivery of valuation services involving business enterprises, intellectual property, intangible assets, and complex financial instruments.
- Develop integrated valuation solutions for equity, debt, derivatives, and structured securities across regulatory, transactional, tax, and litigation matters.
- Build firm capabilities for complex valuation assignments, including economic damages, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act investigations, and white-collar crime defense.
- Drive methodological rigor, defensibility, and strategic relevance across valuation reports, financial models, exhibits, and expert testimony materials.
- Build seamless delivery across Valuation, Assurance, Tax, Forensics, Litigation, and Investigations capabilities to address complex client needs.
- Develop high-performing teams and a strong culture by building technical capabilities, aligning talent with firm priorities, and creating opportunities for collaboration, learning, and shared success.
- Drive operational excellence through billing awareness, resource alignment, engagement economics, realization, quality, and consistent delivery across the practice.
- Translate regulatory, legislative, litigation, transaction, and market developments into thought leadership, client insights, service innovation, and growth opportunities.
- Develop new client and referral relationships and translate opportunities into sustainable firm growth through seamless delivery of integrated CLA capabilities; carry Client Relationship Leader responsibilities.
What you will need:
- 8 years of relevant experience required.
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required.
- ABV, ASA, CVA, or related certification 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 New York is: $340,000 - $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 20,566 open Business Development jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$340–400K/yr
- New York median$134–194K/yr1,328 salary ranges
- US median$125–197K/yr14,613 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $370K, is 122% above the New York median midpoint ($166K) — in the top quarter of Business Development salary ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 1,802 open Business Development jobs in New York and 20,566 across the US. 13% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Business Development postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (16,377 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 6,252 of the 20,566 open Business Development jobs (30%) 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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