Sourcer

About Ascend

Ascend empowers entrepreneurial CPAs to reach their goals with an innovative growth model that brings their firms into the new age. Backed by private equity from people-focused Alpine Investors, Ascend is building a modern platform for regional accounting firms that enables them to stay independent while accessing the resources of a large CPA firm to help them grow. Ascend provides access to growth capital, robust talent acquisition, best-of-breed technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives so that firms can surmount today’s industry challenges and reach their full potential. Founded in January 2023, the company attained revenues sufficient to qualify it as a Top 100 U.S. accounting firm within six months of operation. For more information, visit ascendtogether.com.

About Alpine Investors

Alpine Investors is a people-driven private equity firm that is committed to building great companies by working with, learning from, and developing exceptional people. Alpine prides itself on fostering cultures where people value empowerment, diversity, fairness, integrity, and intellectual honesty. Founded in 2001, Alpine specializes in investments in companies in the software and services industries. Alpine has over $15 billion in AUM and has offices in San Francisco, New York, and Salt Lake City.

For more information on the firm, visit www.alpineinvestors.com 

Position Summary

Ascend is seeking a Sourcer to support our network of accounting firms. Reporting to the Director of Partner Firm Recruiting, the Sourcer will be responsible for managing the front-end hiring process for CPAs, accounting professionals, and other firm leadership roles. The Sourcer will partner with Recruiters and Hiring Managers to deeply understand the requirements of each role to develop and execute sourcing strategies to build a robust candidate pipeline. Employing storytelling, analytical rigor, and problem-solving skills, this individual will devise and implement Talent strategies to identify and engage top talent while providing a red carpet candidate experience.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and implement talent mapping strategies to identify key talent pools and potential candidates within specific industries and geographic locations.
• Cultivate connections and keep a pulse on what’s happening in the industry to get ahead of key strategic and/or competitive opportunities
• Build a robust pipeline of diverse, high-quality candidates for Tax, Audit and other Accounting roles
• Create effective, efficient outbound outreach to attract candidates through email, LinkedIn and other methods
• Evaluate candidates via screening interviews; demonstrating excellent interview skills that lead to effective top of funnel selection
• Monitor talent pipeline analytics, using metrics to develop and execute on new and more efficient sourcing strategies
• Manage and administer candidate experience surveys to gather feedback; ensure candidate NPS of 70+ regardless of hiring status

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of sourcing, market research or recruiting experience, experience in public accounting recruiting is a plus
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university
• Strong organizational, critical thinking and communications skills
• Strong desire to win and relentless intellectual curiosity
• Attention to detail and good judgment
• Experience with LinkedIn Recruiter, experience with Greenhouse a plus!

What You Can Count On:

We live by our values:

• Own it. We seize growth opportunities with the passion, speed and accountability of an entrepreneur.
• Serve whole-heartedly. We love our people and serve them with positivity and kindness.
• Be excellent. We set a high bar because our mission matters.
• Win together. We stay in sync, achieve as a team and celebrate each other.
• Bring the sunshine. We have fun and bring enthusiasm to make the journey joyful.

At Ascend, we provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Ascend hires and promotes individuals solely based on qualifications for the position to be filled and business needs.