Senior Manager - Strategic Valuation Services

About the role

Ready to shape valuation strategy while developing the next generation of professionals? Join Cherry Bekaert’s Valuation Services practice as a Senior Manager where you will expand beyond traditional deliverables to guide clients through complex business decisions, providing pre-deal analysis, value opinions, calculations of value, and ad-hoc modeling and analysis. Cherry Bekaert is ranked among the largest accounting and consulting firms in the country and consistently recognized as a Great Place to Work, delivering innovative advisory, assurance and tax services to clients. The firm creates shared success through teamwork, energy, and expertise, approaching today’s toughest business challenges with a client-first mindset, working together to create exceptional value. Commitment to making a difference for people, clients, community, and professions includes providing space to pursue growth and development opportunities that guide and support you at each stage of your personal and professional journey.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic and traditional valuation engagements, including pre-deal analyses, value opinions, calculations of value, business enterprise valuations, purchase price allocations, impairment analyses, tax valuations, complex financial instruments, and litigation matters
• Manage the full engagement lifecycle, including client communication, relationship building, technical direction, deliverable review, and timely feedback to team members
• Serve as a trusted advisor to a broad range of clients, translating complex valuation and corporate finance analyses into clear, actionable insights
• Direct complex financial analyses, valuation models, research, and ad hoc modeling that support informed client decisions
• Manage engagement and proposal risk in alignment with Firm expectations
• Contribute to business development through client presentations, industry and technical conferences, and collaboration with practice leadership on new client strategies
• Recruit, train, mentor, and provide meaningful feedback to junior professionals while supporting their continued development

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Economics, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field
• Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) or Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) strongly preferred
• 7+ years of progressive experience leading complex financial & valuation analyses and building financial models in a public accounting or consulting environment
• Strong research and analytical capabilities, including the ability to address complex valuation issues
• Exceptional client relationship, communication, technical writing, and presentation skills
• Ability to manage relationships across multiple levels while delivering responsive client service
• Demonstrated leadership, recruiting, training, and mentoring capabilities
• Ability to travel