Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The client is a Top 100 U.S. public accounting and advisory firm serving food, agriculture, and protein industries. The Dairy Accounting Practice Lead will lead and grow an established dairy practice, advise dairy clients on accounting, tax, and business strategy, develop the team, build industry relationships, and expand the practice nationally.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow an established dairy practice. Take ownership of a portfolio of dairy industry clients, serving as their primary trusted advisor on accounting, tax, and business strategy. Guide a talented team already doing dairy work, and help them level up under your leadership
- Build real relationships in the dairy industry. Get in front of dairy owners, operators, and executives. Represent the firm at industry associations and events. Be someone people in dairy know and trust
- Expand what's already working. Deepen existing client relationships, help convert prospects already in the pipeline into new clients, and partner with the firm's business development team to go after the significant growth this practice is positioned for
- Develop the next generation. Mentor and coach the team supporting dairy clients today, and help build the bench strength this practice needs to keep growing
- Operate as a national player. This is a national platform. You'll work with larger, more complex dairy operations than most firms can offer, and you'll do it alongside colleagues serving adjacent protein and food & ag sectors, so you're never on an island
Skills
- 8+ years of progressive public accounting experience or equivalent industry accounting experience, with meaningful, hands-on experience serving dairy industry clients
- Real dairy expertise: you understand dairy-specific accounting and tax issues, you can pick up a dairy client's financials or tax return and know what you're looking at, and you know your way around the business side of how dairies operate
- A track record of leading client service teams and developing people, not just doing the technical work yourself
- Executive presence and the ability to operate as a trusted advisor to owners and executives
- A genuine growth mindset: comfort expanding relationships, recognizing opportunities, and helping close new business
- CPA strongly preferred, though not required for the right candidate
Benefits
- Existing clients, an existing team, and a real pipeline.
- Real autonomy to help define the direction and growth of the practice, backed by the firm's marketing, business development, and technical resources.
- Work with sophisticated clients across the country without the size and red tape of a several-thousand-person firm.
- For the right person, this includes a development path toward Principal, and for a seasoned leader, a real conversation about ownership.
- Remote, hybrid, or office, depending on you and your location.
- National travel is part of the role, with a national client base to match.
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