Audit Manager or Director - Higher Education
Bellevue, WAFull-time$105–181K/yrPosted 2w agoStill listed today
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CliftonLarsonAllen is hiring an Audit Director or Manager for its Higher Education Assurance team. The role serves higher education clients, including colleges, universities, and their philanthropic, research, and athletic endeavors. It oversees assurance engagements from planning and staffing through execution and client meetings, while leading engagement decisions, developing staff, and maintaining communication with clients and engagement principals.
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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.
CliftonLarsonAllen, LLP is hiring an Audit Director or Manager to join our Higher Education Assurance team. In this role, you’ll work with CLA’s higher education clients to help make an impact across the education system, including state colleges, public universities, private institutions, and their philanthropic, research, and athletic endeavors.
How you’ll create opportunities in this Audit Director or Manager role:
- Assume responsibility for planning, supervising, and controlling all phases of the Firm’s higher ed industry clients as delegated by Principals.
- Assume in-charge responsibility by planning the timing, staffing, and execution of assurance engagements to promote efficient operations and deliver value to clients.
- Lead the decision-making process for assigned engagements and clients; keep the Engagement Principal fully informed of major decisions and engagement progress.
- Develop a trained and accountable team by assisting with recruiting, planning assignments, resolving problems, providing direct consultation to staff, evaluating performance, and serving as an instructor or discussion leader in professional development programs.
- Supervise the preparation of engagement letters for approval by the Engagement Principal; discuss the nature and terms of each assignment with clients; estimate fees; and ensure clients sign and return engagement letters before work begins.
- Evaluate internal controls and audit programs prepared by staff, revise as necessary, and present to the Engagement Principal for approval.
- Monitor engagement progress, time budgets, and deadlines; communicate important developments to the Engagement Principal along with relevant facts, conclusions, and recommendations; maintain ongoing communication with client management; and prepare for final client meetings.
What you will need:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required
- 6+ years of public accounting experience
- Experience in a large professional services or public accounting firm, driving strategic management preferred.
- CPA required
- Demonstrated ability to manage client relationships.
- Ability to show strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.
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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 Washington is: $105,000.00 to $181,000.00
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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$105–181K/yr
- US median$99–200K/yr569 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $143K, is 5% below the US median midpoint ($151K) — in the middle half of Audit Manager salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 704 open Audit Manager jobs across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- 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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