CLA (CliftonLarsonAllen)

Lead and develop the Consulting Enablement practice including strategy, frameworks, team leadership, and client delivery oversight. | 10+ years in consulting or transformation, bachelor's degree, certifications in change management or project management preferred, and experience with digital transformation and ERP/CRM implementations. | CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you. CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other. CLA is currently seeking a Director – Consulting Enablement to join our growing CLA Digital Team. This role develops the strategy, framework, tools, and team to deliver our digital transformation services through Organizational Change Management (OCM), Project Management, and Process Improvement engagements to deliver measurable value. This leader will work in collaboration with our other digital leaders in AI/Data Science, Data & Automation, Cybersecurity, and ERP implementation as well as deliver stand alone capabilities such as IV&V. About The Role Essential Job Functions • Leadership & Strategy: Define the vision, operating model, and methodologies for Consulting Enablement; Collaborate with other service line leaders to align practices with client transformation goals. • Organizational Change Management: Develop and implement OCM frameworks, lead change readiness assessments, and coach leaders on adoption strategies. • Project Management: Standardize project governance, risk management, and delivery practices; oversee strategic engagements and develop PM-as-a-Service offerings. • Business Analysis: Establish BA standards for discovery, requirements gathering, and solution design; mentor analysts and ensure quality documentation. • Operational Oversight: Monitor project profitability, implement realization reporting, and participate in deal review processes for proposals and SOWs. • Client Experience: Improve handoff processes, act as escalation point for delivery concerns, and ensure client satisfaction. • People Development: Recruit and lead a multidisciplinary team; build a Center of Excellence and deliver internal education on transformation best practices. What You Will Need • 10 years of relevant experience in consulting, professional services, and/or corporate transformation environments. • Bachelor's degree is required. Combination of relevant experience, education, and training may be accepted in lieu of degree. • Certification in Prosci/Change Management, PMP/PMI, CBAP, or similar disciplines preferred. • Understanding of digital transformation, ERP/CRM implementations, process optimization, and change adoption in professional services or mid-market environments. • Familiarity with building or leading OCM, PM, or BA functions Our Perks • Flexible PTO (designed to offer flexible time away for you!) • Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave • Paid Volunteer Time Off • Mental health coverage • Quarterly Wellness stipend • Fertility benefits • Complete list of benefits here Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities Click here to learn about your hiring rights. Wellness at CLA To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more. To view a complete list of benefits click here.

Lead and manage tax engagements for financial services clients, mentor team members, oversee client deliverables, and develop new business. | Bachelor's or master's in accounting or related field, CPA licensure (or JD/EA), 10+ years public accounting tax experience, and deep knowledge of financial services tax issues. | CLA is currently seeking a Financial Services Tax Principal or Signing Director to join our Minneapolis or on of our other Midwest offices. The Principal/Signing Director contributes at the highest level in their industry and excels at client advisory, service advocacy, relationship development, and leadership. How You'll Create Opportunities In This Role • Become part of the leadership of a team of tax and industry professionals to deliver tax compliance and consulting services, including mentoring the team to get to know and help their clients by developing a deep understanding of their businesses and delivering the firm’s services to fully meet client’s needs. • Lead and manage tax engagements for financial services clients, including banks, insurance companies, investment funds, and specialty finance entities. • Assume full responsibility for all services for clients in a book of business. • Review and sign engagement letters, discuss the nature and terms of assignments with clients and staff, and approve fees. • Review and approve work papers and tax returns prepared by staff. • Review and sign client deliverables. • Keep current on tax law changes. • Actively develop new business and expand services to existing clients. • Demonstrate commitment to the firm through a willingness to devote time to the practice. What You Will Need • Bachelor’s or master’s in accounting, Taxation or related field • Current CPA licensure required. (JD or EA may be accepted in lieu of CPA). • 10+ years of public accounting experience in a tax role with a public accounting and/or professional services firm • Deep understanding of tax issues affecting banks, insurance companies, investment funds, and specialty finance entities. • Strong technical knowledge of ASC 740, partnership taxation, REITs, and financial instruments. Our approach to compensation emphasizes collaboration and career growth. We pay competitive wages and view compensation as an investment in our people. Factors such as geography, experience, education, skills, and knowledge may impact position of pay within the range. The compensation range for this position in Minnesota is: $145,000 - $350,00 The compensation range for this position in Illinois is: $145,000 - $300,000 Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities Click here to learn about your hiring rights. Wellness at CLA To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more. To view a complete list of benefits click here.

Drive product vision, strategy, and delivery in an Agile environment while collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure measurable business outcomes. | 4+ years product management experience, strong communication and problem-solving skills, ability to manage full product lifecycle, and preferably SAFe PO/PM or CSPO certification. | CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you. CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other. Our Perks • Flexible PTO (designed to offer flexible time away for you!) • Up to 12 weeks paid parental leave • Paid Volunteer Time Off • Mental health coverage • Quarterly Wellness stipend • Fertility benefits • Complete list of benefits here CLA is growing and seeking to hire an experienced Senior Product Owner to join our talented Information Technology team. The position offers growth, flexibility and a collaborative work environment. In this position you should have the following; excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate at all levels. Strong problem solving and creative skills and the ability to exercise sound judgment. Most important, demonstrate a high level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency and results-orientation. The Sr. Product Owner drives business value through outcome-focused product strategy and delivery, harnessing business and technical fluency, strategic vision, customer-centricity, and stakeholder engagement to achieve product success in an Agile environment. The role covers full-stack product ownership, integrating discovery, delivery, and operational execution with technical depth and end-to-end accountability. It embodies strategic product leadership—driving product vision through foresight, data-informed decision-making, and deep collaboration with architecture, engineering, UX, product research, QA, and business stakeholders. The role balances short-term goals with long-term vision and make strategic decisions that will benefit the product and CLA. As a versatile functional leader, the Sr. Product Owner bridges gaps between stakeholders, technical teams, and users to deliver measurable outcomes. The role oversees the full product lifecycle—from ideation through post-launch iteration—including operational readiness, monitoring, and long-term sustainability. The Sr. Product Owner mentors and partners with other Product Owners and ensures alignment with CLA’s solutions portfolio strategy. How you’ll create opportunities in this Senior Product Owner role: Continuous Discovery • Define outcome-driven product vision, strategy, and roadmap aligned to firm and service line priorities. • Collaborate with business owners, sponsors, and product and technology leaders to shape and deliver OKRs and KPIs with measurable impact throughout the product lifecycle. • Lead discovery using both qualitative and quantitative research to validate user problems, uncover friction points, and identify scalable opportunities. • Translate insights into actionable hypotheses and backlog items; ensure technical feasibility and alignment with business outcomes. • Maintain a dual-track backlog (discovery and delivery); continuously synthesize feedback into iterative improvements. • Communicate product vision, direction, and priorities with executive-level clarity to secure alignment and buy-in. Requirements/Backlog Management • Develop product functional and non-functional requirements (PRD), process flows, prototypes, concept sketches, and technical enabler documentation in partnership with cross-functional teams, ensuring alignment with strategic OKRs and KPIs. • Responsible for defining the “why,” “who,” and the “what.” • Own and prioritize the backlog using value-based frameworks (MoSCoW, WSJF, RICE, KANO,) to balance time-to-market, return on investment (ROI), scalability, and technical debt. • Decompose product vision into epics, features, and user stories with acceptance criteria, dependencies covering both functional and non-functional requirements (e.g., scalability, auditability, security). • Define instrumentation and telemetry needs to support usage tracking, product analytics, and performance measurement against OKRs/KPIs. • Synthesize user feedback, behavioral data, and strategic inputs into actionable backlog items that drive iterative delivery and align with business, technical, and compliance objectives. • Ensure all work meets Definition of Ready and Done; maintain backlog hygiene for sprint and PI planning. • Partner with QA to develop test scenarios, acceptance criteria, and edge-case handling aligned with audit and compliance needs. • Manage risks, dependencies, and assumptions using structured tools such as risk logs and dependency maps. Technical & Solution Alignment • Translate business problems into technical opportunities with an understanding of data schemas, integration models, APIs, SDKs, and ingestion workflows. • Ensure solutions are extensible, auditable, and resilient—anticipating downstream needs such as edge-case logic, audit trail requirements, and platform reuse. • Collaborate with engineering and architecture during solution design to ensure technical enablers support modular integration patterns (e.g., APIs, SDKs), platform extensibility, and architectural runway. • Balance delivery velocity with long-term maintainability through effective collaboration on tradeoffs and design choices. Continuous Delivery and Execution • Lead end-to-end delivery across the product lifecycle—from idea validation through post-launch iteration, ensuring scalable, high-quality solutions meet strategic goals. • Ensure operational handoff, system reliability, and sustainability post-launch, including documentation, support readiness, and monitoring requirements. • Facilitate Agile delivery, including PI Planning, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives, and Inspect & Adapt sessions. • Define delivery milestones and success criteria in collaboration with Scrum Masters, Release Train Engineers (RTE), and program/project managers. • Monitor progress, unblock delivery teams, and ensure accountability to OKRs and timelines. Stakeholder Collaboration and Cross-Functional Influence • Serve as a bridge between business sponsors, business owners, product and technology leaders, end users, and delivery teams. • Drive strategic alignment across teams; manage conflicting priorities and secure buy-in for product decisions at all levels. • Influence high-stakes decisions using structured rationale and outcome-based reasoning. • Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs transparently to maintain stakeholder trust. • Foster a culture of agility, experimentation, and continuous learning—reinforcing full-stack product ownership and thinking across functions. • Exemplify systems thinking, audit integrity, and long-term platform value in all phases of development. Functional Leadership and Mentorship • Serve as a versatile functional leader, bridging gaps between stakeholders, technical teams, and users to drive outcome-focused value. • Mentor Product Owners (if applicable) on backlog quality, strategic prioritization, and cross-functional delivery alignment. • Lead by example in outcome accountability, stakeholder management, and cross-team collaboration. • Champion clarity, autonomy, and measurable value delivery in cross-functional teams. • Represent product excellence, ensuring product teams are effective and outcome driven. Performance Optimization and Improvement • Define, track, and analyze product performance against key results; use insights to inform iteration and roadmap evolution. • Investigate performance gaps, synthesize feedback, and prioritize refinements that improve user experience, system quality, and business outcomes. • Lead post-launch optimization efforts and operationalize continuous learning across the product lifecycle. What You Will Need • 4+ years of experience in product management, with a proven track record of successful product delivery is required. • Bachelor's degree or a combination of relevant experience and training may be considered in lieu of a degree. Certifications / Licenses • SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager (PO/PM) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) is preferred. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities Click here to learn about your hiring rights. Wellness at CLA To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more. To view a complete list of benefits click here.