Assurance Manager or Director
St. Louis, MOFull-timePosted 3w agoStill listed today
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CliftonLarsonAllen is seeking an Audit Manager or Director for its St. Louis or Kansas City offices. The role leads assurance engagements, including planning, staffing, execution, client communication, and review of audit work. It also involves developing and supervising staff, managing client relationships, and supporting business development. Candidates need a bachelor’s degree in a related field, a current CPA license, and at least six years of public accounting experience.
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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 an Audit Manager or Director to join our St. Louis or Kansas City offices.
How you’ll create opportunities in this Audit Manager or Director role:
- Assume full responsibility for planning, supervising, and controlling all phases of the Firm’s regular services for those clients delegated by Principals.
- Assume in-charge responsibility; plan the timing, staffing and execution of assurance engagements to promote the most efficient operation and deliver value to our clients.
- Lead the decision-making process for assigned engagements/clients; keep the Engagement Principal fully informed of major decisions and the engagement progress.
- Develop a responsible and trained team through assistance in recruiting, planning assignments, resolving problems, providing direct consultation to staff, evaluating staff performance, and acting as an instructor or discussion leader in professional development programs.
- Supervise preparation of the engagement letter for approval by the Engagement Principal, discuss the nature and terms of the assignment with the client, estimate fees, and ensure client signs and returns the engagement letter prior to the start of the engagement.
- Evaluate internal controls and audit programs prepared by staff, revise as necessary, and present to the Engagement Principal for approval.
- Follow the engagement progress through monitoring time budgets and deadlines for adherence; communicate important developments to the Engagement Principal along with facts, conclusions, and recommendations; provide ongoing attention to client management; and prepare final client meetings.
What you will need:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field.
- 6+ years of public accounting experience with emphasis in financial statement preparation, audits, reviews, and compilations.
- Current CPA license required.
- Advanced technical knowledge of audit, accounting, and tax concepts.
- Ability to travel to client sites that may also require overnight travel.
- Demonstrated ability to manage client relationships.
- Strong communication and analytical skills.
- Ability to show strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.
- Dynamic interpersonal manner with capacity to develop and train staff.
- Excellent client service orientation with an ability to expand services and develop new business.
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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 postingNot listed
- US median$99–200K/yr569 salary ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 14 open Audit Manager jobs in Missouri and 704 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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