current-advisors - Senior Manager, M&A Integrations
Requirements
• 5+ years of experience in operations or leadership roles within an accounting firm, preferably with M&A or integration exposure or 5+ years of experience in integration and / or project management leadership roles, preferably with accounting or professional services exposure. • Strong understanding of how accounting firms operate, including partner dynamics, workflow models, common technology and systems, client service delivery, and regulatory context strongly preferred. • Demonstrated ability to manage complex, cross-functional initiatives with multiple stakeholders and tight deadlines. • Exceptional interpersonal skills with a proven track record of building trust with senior leaders and partner groups. • High bias toward action, detail-oriented, ultra-organized, and comfortable with ambiguity. • Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to manage up, down, and across. • Willingness to travel regionally, including throughout New York and New Jersey. • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, and excited about being an entrepreneur and company-builder. • Impeccable integrity and ethical standards. • Self-aware, accepting, honest, open, and respectful of others. • Ability to manage, train and mentor team members. • Embody Current PA’s core values: Courage, Partnership, Relentlessness. • Previous experience leading integrations or complex cross-functional implementation projects. • Familiarity with common accounting firm tech stacks (e.g., CCH / Creative Solutions). • Change management or project leadership experience, even if informal.
Responsibilities
• Lead and Manage Integrations: Oversee all integration activities for newly acquired firms, including creation and alignment of the integration approach, and ensuring timely and effective execution across accounting, finance, IT, compliance, HR, and operational functions. • Project Management Excellence: Drive each integration as a structured, high-stakes project—setting clear timelines, defining workstreams, tracking milestones, managing risks, communicating to stakeholders, and ensuring cross-functional accountability from start to finish. • Partner Relationship Management: Serve as the primary point of contact for integration with each acquired firm’s Managing Partner and leadership team, developing strong and collaborative relationships from Day 1. • Cross-Functional Coordination: Act as the integration quarterback—coordinating efforts across functional departments and ensuring accountability for deliverables from both corporate and firm-based teams. • Cultural Integration: Support softer elements of integration, including partner onboarding, firm communications, cultural assimilation, and change management. • Playbook Execution & Continuous Improvement: Apply and continuously refine our integration playbook. Identify risks, escalate issues early, and develop creative solutions to integration challenges. • Progress Reporting: Regularly report integration status, risks, and opportunities to the Regional VP, CEO, and firm Managing Partners, and ensure key milestones are tracked and met. • Regional Alignment: Collaborate with our firms to ensure consistency and best practice sharing across integrations.
Benefits
• $108K – $155K • Offers Bonus • Upload your resume here to autofill key application fields. • Drop your resume here! • Parsing your resume. Autofilling key fields... • Provide your full mailing address INCLUDING city, state and zip code. Applications missing this information WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED. • or drag and drop here • Please choose one of your previous projects and briefly describe your relevant experience. • Decline to self-identify • Hispanic or Latino - A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race. • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. • White • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. • Black or African American • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. • Asian • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) - A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintain tribal affiliation or community attachment. • American Indian or Alaska Native • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) - All persons who identify with more than one of the above five races. • Two or More Races • Hispanic or Latino • White (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Black or African American (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Asian (Not Hispanic or Latino) • American Indian or Alaska Native (Not Hispanic or Latino) • Two or More Races (Not Hispanic or Latino) • I identify as one or more of the classifications of protected veteran listed above • I am not a protected veteran
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