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Assurance Manager or Director - Manufacturing

CliftonLarsonAllen LLP

Irvine, CAFull-time$102–194K/yrPosted 1mo agoStill listed today

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At a glance

Compensation
$102–194K/yr
Location
Irvine, CA
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

CPA License, requiredBachelor's degree, required

Job overview

CliftonLarsonAllen is seeking an Assurance Director or Manager to join its growing Manufacturing practice. The role manages client relationships, supports clients’ funding and audit and financial planning objectives, and develops staff while overseeing engagement teams. It also leads engagement progress by monitoring budgets and deadlines and communicating developments, facts, conclusions, and recommendations to the engagement principal.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Client Relationship Management, nice to haveFunding Assistance, nice to haveAudit, nice to haveFinancial Planning, nice to haveStaff Development, nice to haveMentoring, nice to haveTeam Leadership, nice to haveGovernmental Audits, nice to haveSingle Audits, nice to haveFinancial Statement Preparation, required

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Accounting, Finance, or Related Field, required6+ Years Public Accounting Experience, requiredCPA License, required

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
401(k) Match

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 Assurance Director/Manager to join our growing Manufacturing practice!

How you’ll create opportunities in this Assurance Director/ Manager role:

  • Manage and develop relationships with great clients.
  • Assist clients in obtaining necessary funding to continue to positively impact their community.
  • Assist clients with meeting their audit and financial planning objectives by using a range of tools.
  • Be creative with staff development, mentoring, and overseeing client engagement teams.
  • Lead the engagement progress by monitoring time budgets and deadlines for adherence. Communicate important development to the engagement principal along with facts, conclusions, and recommendations.

What you will need:

  • You have a bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field.
  • You have a minimum of 6 years of public accounting experience with emphasis in financial statement preparation and audits.
  • Experience leading teams of high performing people and managing governmental audits and Single audits strongly preferred
  • 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 position of pay within the range.

The compensation range for this position in CA is: $102,000.00 - $194,000.00

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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.

To view a complete list of benefits, click here.

How this job compares

Set against the 1,021 open Auditor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$102–194K/yr
  • California median$101–162K/yr34 salary ranges
  • US median$86–120K/yr543 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $148K, is 7% above the California median midpoint ($138K) — in the middle half of Auditor salary ranges in California.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 48 open Auditor jobs in California and 1,021 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in California
Experience
This posting asks for at least 6 years of experience — more than three in four Auditor postings that state a minimum ask for (median 3 years, across 785 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 338 of the 1,021 open Auditor jobs (33%) 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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