Audit Associate - State and Local Government
Denver, COFull-time$60–99K/yrPosted 1mo agoStill listed today
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CliftonLarsonAllen is seeking an Audit Associate for its State and Local Government practice in the Denver office. The associate performs audit and assurance work, supports client engagements, communicates progress and results, and helps prepare financial statements and reports. The role requires a bachelor's degree, one year of relevant professional-services experience, accounting knowledge, familiarity with internal software systems, and proficiency with MS Office products.
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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 practices. 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 Associate to join our State and Local Government (SLG) practice in our Denver office. 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 Assurance Senior role:
- Perform the detail work of audits, review, some compilations, and other assurance services for clients.
- Support multiple client engagements of varying size and complexity, on time and within budget, and communicate progress and audit results to supervisors.
- Complete assigned portions of engagements with consistency and accuracy and within tight time frames.
- Proactively interact and communicate with clients to gather information to ensure timely engagement wrap-up.
- Audit complex areas/transactions as well as prepare financial statements and related reports. May begin to direct small audits at the two-year level.
- Collaborate with managers/principals to ensure effective communication and service delivery.
- Get the opportunity to work with many great clients.
- Develop and maintain effective client relationships.
What you will need:
- A bachelor's degree in accounting, Finance, or a related field.
- 1 year of relevant experience in professional services required (completed internship(s) may qualify as related experience)
- State and Local Government audit industry experience is a plus.
- CPA or eligible to sit for the CPA exam preferred
- General knowledge of accounting principles and/or regulations impacting financial markets, analysis and reporting of financial data required
- Understanding of internal software systems (Pfx Fixed Assets, Pfx Engagement, CCH Access Tax, XCM etc.) required
- Proficiency with MS Office products (Outlook, Word, Excel, etc.) 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 Colorado is $60,000 - $99,000.
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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 1,021 open Auditor jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$60–99K/yr
- Colorado median$83–120K/yr28 salary ranges
- US median$86–120K/yr543 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $80K, is 20% below the Colorado median midpoint ($99K) — in the lowest quarter of Auditor salary ranges in Colorado.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 38 open Auditor jobs in Colorado and 1,021 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Colorado
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- Cohnreznick LLP5 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less 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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