Managing Director - Finance & Accounting Advisory Services

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Our Finance & Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) team helps clients scale, navigate significant transactions, strengthen finance and accounting functions, and meet complex reporting requirements. We combine technical accounting, capital markets, operational accounting, financial reporting, and transformation capabilities to help clients achieve strategic goals.

The Managing Director is a senior FAAS leader who combines market-facing growth, deep subject-matter expertise, exceptional client delivery, team leadership, and practice stewardship. The role is expected to operate with substantial autonomy, take meaningful ownership from Partners, and demonstrate the ambition and sustained performance required to progress toward the Partner level.

Leadership Expectations

• Be recognized as a leader within FAAS and the broader firm, demonstrating sound judgment, executive presence, accountability, collaboration, and a firm-first mindset.
• Operate as an extension of the Partner team by independently owning priorities, resolving issues, advancing opportunities, and reducing the need for Partner involvement in day-to-day execution.
• Translate practice strategy into action, establish clear priorities, and hold themselves and others accountable for measurable results.
• Demonstrate a strong desire and readiness to progress to Partner through sustained contributions in growth, client leadership, people leadership, technical credibility, and practice building.
• Model the behaviors expected of future Partners, including enterprise thinking, commercial judgment, stewardship of the firm, and responsible risk management.

Key Responsibilities

1. Growth, Business Development & Market Leadership

• Own and execute a targeted growth strategy for FAAS, developing new opportunities and expanding existing client relationships across key services, sectors, accounts, and referral channels.
• Build and maintain a strong pipeline and executive network with CFOs, CAOs, Controllers, Boards, private equity and venture capital sponsors, investment bankers, attorneys, and other referral partners.
• Lead the full business development lifecycle, from opportunity qualification and solution design through proposals, pricing, presentations, negotiation, and close, with clear value propositions tied to client needs and outcomes.
• Drive long-term growth and market presence by generating repeat business and referrals, collaborating across service lines on integrated solutions, and representing FAAS through conferences, webinars, industry associations, and executive networking

2. Client Leadership, Delivery & Risk Management

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior finance executives, Boards, Audit Committees, investors, and sponsors, providing practical guidance on complex, high-impact accounting, reporting, transaction, and transformation matters.
• Lead complex, high-stakes engagements from strategy through delivery, including scoping, staffing, resource deployment, executive communication, and oversight of key client deliverables.
• Own quality and risk management, ensuring work is timely, fact-based, solution-oriented, and consistent with Armanino standards while proactively identifying issues and escalating matters requiring Partner judgment.
• Manage overall engagement performance and economics, including budgets, realization, invoicing, collections, scope changes, and delivery against client expectations.

3. Subject-Matter Expertise & Thought Leadership

• Serve as a recognized subject-matter expert in one or more FAAS disciplines, industries, or market segments, staying current on relevant accounting, reporting, regulatory, transaction, and market developments.
• Apply deep technical and business expertise to complex or emerging client matters, translating technical conclusions into clear, practical recommendations for senior executives.
• Elevate the capabilities of teams and the broader practice through technical consultation, quality review, coaching, and the development of scalable methodologies, tools, templates, training, and service offerings.
• Strengthen the firm’s market presence and credibility through publishing, speaking engagements, panels, webinars, client education, and other thought-leadership activities.

4. Team Leadership, Talent Development & Culture

• Lead, inspire, and grow high-performing teams while creating an inclusive, accountable, and growth-oriented culture.
• Act as a player-coach who can lead at the executive level while remaining close enough to the work to guide teams, remove barriers, and ensure quality.
• Develop Directors, Managers, and other professionals through timely feedback, coaching, sponsorship, career advocacy, and meaningful stretch opportunities.
• Build leadership depth and succession by delegating effectively, clarifying decision rights, and preparing others to lead clients, teams, and workstreams independently.
• Identify talent needs and play an active role in recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, retention, performance management, and workforce planning.
• Create an environment in which team members understand how their work connects to client impact, practice growth, and the firm’s strategic priorities.

5. Practice Building, Strategy & Partner Leverage

• Take ownership of significant practice priorities or workstreams from Partners and drive them to completion with limited oversight.
• Help shape and execute FAAS strategy, including market focus, service innovation, talent priorities, operating model, and investment decisions.
• Improve the scalability, consistency, and profitability of the practice through disciplined processes, reusable assets, technology enablement, and effective resource management.
• Use performance, pipeline, capacity, and engagement data to identify risks, make decisions, and recommend actions to practice leadership.
• Build alignment across offices, regions, and service lines and serve as a visible ambassador for FAAS within the firm.
• Step into leadership gaps, resolve cross-functional issues, and create momentum without waiting for Partner direction.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
• Minimum of 15 years of progressive experience in public accounting, accounting advisory, consulting, or senior corporate finance and accounting roles, including substantial client-service leadership experience.
• Demonstrated record of originating, expanding, and closing complex advisory opportunities and building durable executive and referral relationships.
• Deep expertise in one or more FAAS disciplines, with the ability to advise executives on complex technical, operational, reporting, transaction, or transformation matters.
• Proven ability to lead complex engagements, manage risk and economics, and deliver high-quality outcomes through multi-level teams.
• Demonstrated success recruiting, developing, retaining, and leading high-performing professionals.

Preferred

• CPA or other relevant professional credential strongly preferred, depending on area of specialization.
• Executive presence and communication skills sufficient to influence CFOs, CAOs, Controllers, Boards, Audit Committees, sponsors, and firm leaders.
• Strong commercial judgment, ownership mindset, resilience, collaboration, and the ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment.
• Clear aspiration and demonstrated readiness to advance toward Partner, supported by a sustained record of growth, leadership, client impact, and firm contribution.

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Certain states require us to disclose the pay range and benefits summary for job openings. For Colorado residents, the compensation range for this position: $224,100 - $299,400. For Washington residents, Illinois residents, New York residents, and Southern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $241,700 - $329,300. For Northern California residents, the compensation range for this position: $252,700 - $344,200. Compensation may vary based on skills, role, and location.     

Armanino has a robust offering of benefits, including:   

• Medical, dental, vision  
• Generous PTO plan and paid sick time  
• Flexible work arrangements  
• 401K with Profit Sharing  
• Wellness program  
• Generous parental leave  
• 11 paid holidays  

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