Director, Client Accounting & Advisory Services (Restaurant, Franchise, & Hospitality)
Topeka, KSAll locationsTopeka, KSConyers, GAAtlanta, GABirmingham, ALOverland Park, KSRaleigh, NCValdosta, GAAlpharetta, GAAustin, TXCharlotte, NCDallas, TXFort Lauderdale, FLHouston, TXNashville, TNSan Antonio, TX Hybrid
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About the role
Aprio is seeking a Director, Client Accounting & Advisory Services to lead a profitable, scalable outsourced accounting practice serving multi-unit restaurant, franchise, and hospitality operators. You will own end-to-end delivery across three technology stacks, lead a team of approximately 40 onshore and offshore professionals, and manage a book of approximately 175 client relationships spanning 1,000+ locations. This is an operator-first leadership role for someone who understands how process and technology transform a service into a business that grows faster than its headcount. You will set the standards, build the team, and shape the future of a practice being redefined by cloud technology and AI.
What you'll bring
- 10+ years of accounting experience, including 4+ years leading an outsourced accounting, CAAS, or shared-services finance operation
- bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Demonstrated track record of running a profitable delivery operation with direct accountability for margin, utilization, and realization
- Hands-on experience across multiple cloud accounting platforms, including POS, financial back of house, payroll, and bill-pay integrations to the general ledger
- Experience building or rebuilding processes, policies, and standards at scale, and leading the adoption of automation and AI
- Proven ability to develop managers and lead teams through change
- strong written and verbal communicator
- Client-facing relationship ownership and business development experience
- Working knowledge of AICPA independence rules for non-attest services
- Multi-Entity Consolidations
- Cloud Accounting Platforms
- Restaurant, franchise, or hospitality industry experience, including POS-to-GL integration, tip reporting and FICA tip credit coordination with tax, and franchisor royalty and advertising fund reporting