Advisory VP

Job Description Company Overview EisnerAmper is a top 20 U.S. professional services firm, providing audit, accounting, advisory and tax services, valuation, due diligence, internal audit and risk management, litigation consulting and forensic accounting, as well as technology, compliance and regulatory, operational consulting and other professional services. EisnerAmper’s 12,000 clients include middle and lower-middle market corporations across a broad range of industries, as well as not-for-profits and high-net-worth individuals. Headquartered in New York, EisnerAmper employs more than 200 partners and principals and 2,200-plus employees across its 15 offices. Their clients are enterprises as diverse as sophisticated financial institutions and start-ups, global public firms and middle-market companies; as well as high net worth individuals, family offices, not-for-profit organizations, and entrepreneurial ventures across a variety of industries. In July 2021, TowerBrook Capital made a strategic investment in EisnerAmper. TowerBrook's significant capital infusion will help drive EisnerAmper's long-term growth initiatives, which include accelerating the evolution of service offerings including its Advisory practices, investing considerably in talent and technology, and strategically expanding via organic growth and targeted mergers and acquisitions—all directed at exponentially enhancing client service. Job Description EisnerAmper is looking for an VP of Advisory who will lead the firm’s growth of our advisory practices both organically and through M&A and build and design a sustaining capability. In this newly created role, the VP of Advisory will be responsible for execution of both short and long-term growth strategies for our Advisory practices. Under their leadership, the individual will develop and execute strategies for our existing practices as well as identify, evaluate, and execute business opportunities and act as an advisor regarding the strategic fit of advisory services to the middle and lower-middle market. The leader will support the firm’s growth strategy through assessment and execution of potential mergers, acquisitions, investments, and joint ventures. Finally, the role is responsible for developing and maintaining best practices regarding Advisory practices. Responsibilities · Create and implement a multi-year strategy for our Advisory practice, which with optimize services, industry, and geographic pillars, supported through innovation, client, and talent initiatives. · Manage and launch practices and deepen existing practices while enabling all service areas with emerging technologies to drive marketplace success. · Management of people processes including hiring requests and selection, onboarding, career development, training, and effective utilization of resources, including building of off-shore resources. · Develop and drive client experiences through qualitative and quantitative programs that are coordinated through the implementation of a CRM system. Leverage analytics, client scorecards and an integrated portal to enhance the experience. · Strong management skills and demonstrated ability to hire, mentor, coach and develop a global, geographically dispersed team. · Highly accountable with strengths in working through ambiguity to deliver results. · Knowledge of technology landscape and proven ability to leverage technology to solve problems at scale. · Aptitude with measurement and analytics to make decisions. · Acts to surpass goals, seizing opportunities to innovate in order to drive results. · Sets continually higher goals that are aggressive but realistic for self and team, geared to firm objectives. · Effectively frames problems, collects insightful data, identifies and objectively evaluates exhaustive sets of strategic options, makes clear and concise recommendations. · Consistently identifies opportunities to unlock value for EisnerAmper, leveraging existing or new resources. · Think two to three years ahead. · Spends time identifying all stakeholders, both internal and external, as necessary and meets or connects with all of them, neglecting no one to shape a collective consensus. · Identifies opportunities to build relationships that will help others achieve their objectives and reaches out to those people or new people. Basic qualifications for the opportunity · Bachelor’s degree in accounting or equivalent field · 20 years of demonstrated career progression and strong performance as a senior leader. · 10 years in a leadership role in advisory services experience. Ideally, you'll also have · Management of a team of relevant scale to this role. Ability to attract, develop, retain and motivate top talent. · Track-record of collaboration and influencing across a large organization to deliver to expectation. · Success through leveraging a CRM to enabled go-to-market processes and optimize productivity. · Has excelled in a fast-paced, rapidly changing, growth business. · Bachelor’s degree with a strong academic record, MBA or advanced degree a plus. · Demonstrated strategic skills Strategy or Consulting background a strong plus. Location NY, NJ, PA or East Coast preferred #LI-GS1 Preferred Location: New York