<p><strong>Accounting Opportunity | Tax & Client Advisory Leadership</strong></p><p>Many public accounting professionals are asking the same question:</p><p><em>"What does the next stage of my career look like if I don't want to spend years climbing a traditional partner track?"</em></p><p>I'm partnering with a rapidly growing public accounting organization that continues to expand through acquisition and organic growth and is adding experienced professionals to support increased client demand.</p><p>This isn't a typical CPA firm.</p><p>✅ Entrepreneurial culture focused on results rather than billable hour pressure</p><p> ✅ Opportunity to lead client relationships and become a trusted advisor</p><p> ✅ Exposure to tax, CAS, and broader financial services resources</p><p> ✅ Transparent compensation philosophy with strong earning potential tied to production</p><p> ✅ Future employee ownership opportunity through a planned ESOP structure</p><p> ✅ Growth-minded leadership with expansion plans across multiple markets</p><p> ✅ Flexibility and autonomy while still having the support of a larger organization</p><p>They're particularly interested in professionals who:</p><p>• Have public accounting tax experience</p><p> • Enjoy building and managing client relationships</p><p> • Want a voice in the future direction of the office</p><p> • Are looking for leadership opportunities beyond simply preparing returns</p><p> • Value collaboration, flexibility, and long-term growth</p><p>This is an excellent opportunity for a Tax Manager, Senior Tax Accountant, CPA, EA, or public accounting professional who wants more influence, more opportunity, and a clearer path to future leadership.</p><p>📩 Message me confidentially if you'd be open to learning more.</p><p><br></p>
<p>Robert Half is looking for an Investment Data & Operations Analyst to support the integrity, control, and oversight of investment data and related accounting operations in Des Moines. This role plays a key part in maintaining dependable data, investigating exceptions, and helping ensure accurate financial reporting and regulatory alignment for investment portfolios. The ideal candidate brings a strong foundation in investment accounting or operations, works confidently across systems and stakeholders, and thrives in a detail-oriented environment.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><ul><li>Review new security and purchase yield data and resolve discrepancies with internal teams and external managers</li><li>Maintain security master records to ensure complete, accurate, and well-governed investment data</li><li>Research and resolve breaks involving security attributes, accruals, and amortization/accretion schedules</li><li>Partner with accounting, reporting, technology, policy, and portfolio teams to support reconciliations and downstream processing</li><li>Research accounting and reporting treatment for specialized investment topics</li><li>Serve as a resource for investment data, reporting classifications, and system functionality</li><li>Support testing for system updates, data feeds, and reconciliation tools</li><li>Prepare summaries of reconciliation activity, trends, and open issues for leadership</li><li>Assist with additional operational and cross-functional projects as needed</li></ul>
<p>We are looking for an experienced Senior Annuity Business Analyst/Consultant to join a contract opportunity with permanent potential based in Iowa. This role is 100% remote. This role will guide annuity product implementations by turning product and actuarial concepts into practical business and system requirements that support successful delivery. The position works closely with cross-functional teams to align product intent, operational needs, testing expectations, and technical execution across the full annuity lifecycle.</p><p><br></p><p>Responsibilities:</p><p>• Act as the lead annuity subject matter expert, advising teams on product setup, implementation planning, and operational preparedness for new offerings and enhancements.</p><p>• Collaborate with actuarial, product, operations, technology, and vendor partners to convert annuity designs into detailed business rules, workflows, calculation logic, and data requirements.</p><p>• Define end-to-end requirements covering illustrations, application processing, suitability review, policy issuance, administration, billing, commissions, servicing, withdrawals, claims, correspondence, and reporting.</p><p>• Evaluate product variations, state-specific rules, premium structures, rider selections, value calculations, surrender activity, beneficiary events, and compliance considerations to ensure complete requirement coverage.</p><p>• Provide direction to IT business analysts, developers, and quality teams so user stories, specifications, mappings, and acceptance criteria accurately reflect annuity product intent.</p><p>• Develop and review business validation scenarios, expected outcomes, calculation checks, exception handling cases, and regression considerations to strengthen testing quality.</p><p>• Participate in planning sessions, design discussions, backlog refinement, sprint activities, demos, defect reviews, and release readiness efforts to support timely and accurate delivery.</p><p>• Review configuration documents, product rules, data mappings, conversion assumptions, and third-party deliverables to confirm alignment with business objectives and implementation standards.</p><p>• Identify process gaps, operational risks, dependency issues, and control needs that could affect launch success, and recommend solutions before release.</p><p>• Support product validation and implementation activities related to system changes or organizational transition efforts when needed.</p>