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Senior Manager, Privately Held Business Group

@ Doane Grant Thornton

Lethbridge, Alberta

Full-time10+ years experience
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Overview

Doane Grant Thornton is hiring a Senior Manager for its Privately Held Business Group to lead accounting and tax engagements for owner-managed and private clients. The role involves leading client work under ASPE, reviewing tax returns and compilation and review files, supervising an accounting team, and contributing to business development. The posting requires a CPA designation, at least 10 years in public practice with 5+ years of management experience, and a 4-day in-office week.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead and execute client engagements under ASPE
  • Analyze and review corporate and personal income tax returns, NTRs and reviews
  • Supervise and mentor an accounting team, including file reviews
  • Plan and lead teams to exceed client expectations
  • Contribute to new business development and firm growth

Requirements summary:

  • Completed CPA designation
  • Minimum 10 years in public practice with 5+ years of management experience
  • Strong background reviewing compilation and review engagements for owner-managed clients
  • Excellent general tax skills
  • Strong people management and coaching orientation

Benefits mentioned

Retirement planWellness
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Employer posting date
2026-10-30
First seen by our source
2026-10-10
Source record updated
2026-11-06

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Job details

SenioritySenior
DepartmentFinance & accounting
Experience10+ years
Management experience5+ years
Manages peopleYes
Hours per week40 (estimated)
Work settingOffice
PositionMostly sitting
Physical demandsphysical low · computer high
LanguagesEnglish
Licences & certificationsCPA
Perks mentionedRetirement plan, Performance bonus, Wellness

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Doane Grant Thornton

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Doane Grant Thornton is dedicated to helping our clients, colleagues, and communities thrive.

Full company description

In Canada. For Canada. Doane Grant Thornton LLP is a leading Canadian accounting and advisory firm dedicated to helping our clients, colleagues, and communities thrive. We help dynamic private and public organizations unlock their business potential by providing meaningful, strategic advice across a broad range of services, including assurance, advisory, and tax. For 85 years, we've worked alongside the businesses that have shaped our country and economy—from small businesses to industry leaders. With nearly 3,000 colleagues in 70 offices from St. John's to Victoria, we're deeply connected to the people, industries, and communities that make Canada thrive. Our unique, purpose-driven culture has resulted in consistent recognition as one of Canada’s Best Workplaces by the Great Place to Work® Institute since 2008. As bold leaders in our chosen markets and within the professional services industry, we're committed to our values of collaboration, leadership, excellence, agility, respect, and responsibility. Doane Grant Thornton LLP is a Canadian member of Grant Thornton International Ltd., whose member firms operate in over 100 countries worldwide.

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Reported office locations
  • 200 King St W, 20th floor, Toronto, Ontario M5H 3T4, CA
Business categories
  • Consulting
  • Business Development
  • Financial Services
Other recorded names
  • Doane Grant Thornton
  • Doane Grant Thornton LLP
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In Canada. For Canada. Doane Grant Thornton LLP is a leading Canadian accounting and advisory firm dedicated to helping our clients, colleagues, and communities thrive. We help dynamic private and public organizations unlock their business potential by providing meaningful, strategic advice across a broad range of services, including assurance, advisory, and tax. For 85 years, we've worked alongside the businesses…

FieldValue
IndustryProfessional Services
Company size1,001-5,000 employees
HeadquartersToronto, Ontario
Organization typePartnership
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Job description

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 Doane 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 about 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 career as a Senior Manager with Doane Grant Thornton will provide you an opportunity to:
• Work with a team of professionals to assist individuals, and businesses with a wide range of accounting and financial services
• Be part of a unique work culture that challenges you to further your professional development and enlarge your chosen career path
• Be part of a fast-growing environment with engaged professionals who are respected in their fields
• Develop solutions with clients and co-workers through collaborative debate and discussion
• Be engaged with clients on a variety of local and national projects
• Use your strong leadership skills to make a difference and participate in decision making and development of strategic solutions

As a Senior Manager your responsibilities will include:
• Provide solutions to our clients for accounting matters and work with them for growth in current business and financial conditions
• Lead and execute client engagements under ASPE across different industries and sectors
• Contribute to new business development by understanding all Doane Grant Thornton services and use your credibility in the field
• Act as a leader in the business unit, service line, and firm by actively contributing to the development and execution of the office business plan
• Maximize engagement profitability by effectively utilizing engagement resources
• Analyze and review of corporate and personal income tax returns, NTRs and Reviews
• Plan and lead teams to ensure that client expectations are exceeded
• Supervise and mentor an accounting team, including the review of files
• Enthusiastically participate in the performance management processes including conducting timely performance reviews, providing ongoing feedback and training to develop more junior team members
• Build and deepen meaningful business relationships with colleagues and clients, based on rapport, trust and respect
• Proactively grow the firm through differentiating the Doane Grant Thornton brand in the marketplace, supporting and driving business development and client service initiative

Doane 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 Doane 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!

Want to learn more about who we are and how we live our purple every day? Read our colleagues’ stories at www.discoveryourpurple.ca

Think you’ve got what it takes to be a Senior Manager? Like the colour purple? Great. Here's a few more boxes we’re also hoping you can tick:
• Completed CPA designation
• Minimum 10 years experience in a public practice environment, with 5+ years’ management experiences
• 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

At Doane 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 from anywhere in Canada in the summer for 4 weeks, and more!

Our special culture shines through when we have the opportunity to connect in person. That’s why we’re working in a model where teams are required to be together in the office 4 days per week.

Are you ready to Discover Your Purple?

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