Manager, Privately Held Business Group

2 weeks ago

Vancouver, Canada Grant Thornton Full time

**Who we are**
You know those big cities that still feel like small towns? Where everyone’s friendly and helps each other out? That’s like Grant Thornton. Except here we’re all professionals and there isn’t a mayor or a general store. What we’re trying to say is that we’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. We employ over 3000 people across Canada, and we truly care about our colleagues, our clients and the communities where we work and live. That’s what’s most important to us. We’re building a thriving organization that’s purpose driven and still want to remember what your favourite milkshake flavour is.
- A significant opportunity awaits an excellent
**Manager **in our Lower Mainland offices collaborating with our Privately Held Business (PHB) Group in our Abbotsford, Langley and Vancouver offices. Working side by side with a strong team of well-respected accounting professionals, you will be engaged in a wide variety of interesting financial reporting and taxation matters, advising an excellent range of clients. Our PHB practice offers continual professional development as well as long term growth opportunities to evolve your career. If you are an entrepreneurial individual who enjoys sharing strategy and best practices for growth by collaborating internally and connecting externally with individuals and privately held businesses, then this opportunity is ideal for you.

**A career in the PHB Group with Grant Thornton will provide you an opportunity to**:

- Work with a team of professionals who assist individuals and businesses with a wide range of accounting, tax and financial services
- Be part of a unique work culture that challenges you to further your professional development and provides significant opportunity for advancement to manager and beyond
- Be part of a fast growing environment with well-respected professionals who are locally renowned in their respective field
- Develop solutions with clients and colleagues through collaborative effort and discussion
- Be engaged with clients on a variety of local and regional projects

**As a Manager, Privately Held Business Group your responsibilities will include**:

- Leading and executing client engagements under varying reporting frameworks across different industries and sectors but with a focus on Canadian Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises (“ASPE”)
- Contributing to new business development by understanding all Grant Thornton services and by using your credibility in the field
- Acting as a leader by actively contributing to the development and execution of the office business plan
- Maximizing engagement profitability by effectively utilizing engagement resources
- Analysis and review of corporate and personal income tax returns, Compilations, Reviews and special reports
- Planning and leading teams to ensure that client expectations are exceeded
- Supervision and mentoring of an accounting team, including the review of files
- Engaging, coaching and developing talented professionals within the practice to maximize their potential for growth

**Be Grant Thornton**
If you’re a bit like us, you’re driven to connect with how others are feeling and thinking. Here we walk in others shoes before taking action. Just imagine being part of a team that puts “we before me”, where flexAbility is a mindset, and where you trust your colleagues to have your back. At Grant Thornton, you’ll work with inspiring leaders who support your development, both personally and professionally. This is a place where your insatiable curiosity enables you to think, see and hear from a variety of perspectives, a place where every day is different and having the courage to grow is part of who you are. And when all this comes together, well that’s when the magic happens

**Think you’ve got what it takes to be a Manager, Privately Held Business Group? Like the colour purple? Great. Here's a few more boxes we’re also hoping you can tick**:

- Strong background with reviewing and leading compilation and review engagements and working with owner managed clients within a public practice scope
- Excellent general tax skills and the ability to identify tax issues
- Strong people management focus and coaching orientation
- Strong personal and professional brand in the marketplace
- Being an articulate, inspiring and versatile communicator
- Commitment to quality, excellence and continual professional growth for yourself and for those you manage
- At least 5 years’ experience in public accounting or related industry
- Completed CPA designation is required

At Grant Thornton we’re focused on making a difference in the lives of our clients, our colleagues and our communities. That’s our purpose. Or, as we like to say, living our purple.

**What's in it for you?**

Profit sharing, Flex days, RRSP contributions, Firmwide holiday closure, Wellness benefits, Concierge-like benefits, Work f

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