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Ascend

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2023

🤝 B2B

💼 Consulting

💰 $2M Seed Round - Ascend on 2025-02

B2B • Consulting

Ascend is a modern platform that partners with entrepreneurial CPA firms, bringing the resources and advantages of a large accounting firm while preserving each firm's independence. Backed by people-focused private equity firm Alpine Investors and founded in January 2023, Ascend provides growth capital, talent acquisition and development, transformative technology, a catalytic leadership system, shared back-office services, and modernized equity incentives to help regional accounting firms scale. The company is already recognized as a Top 25 firm by Accounting Today.

📋 Description

• Lead People due diligence with benefits and legal vendors to identify risks, issues, opportunities, and mitigation actions • Develop and manage the people integration project plan from LOI signing through three months post-close in Microsoft Planner • Harmonize HR policies, practices, compensation, HR technology, and benefits across partner firms and Ascend • Gather, organize, and migrate employee data from acquired firms • Execute the Platform Integration Playbook and Add-On Playbook during the Technology Stack Transition process • Lead change management initiatives focused on employee engagement, communication, and minimizing disruption • Conduct cultural due diligence and lead efforts to unify organizational cultures • Serve as the contact for acquired-firm employees regarding integration, policies, and HR processes • Track employee sentiment through surveys and feedback tools and escalate concerns when needed • Organize integration events, workshops, open enrollments, system trainings, and HR Lead trainings • Establish post-acquisition onboarding and engagement programs with the Employee Experience Manager • Ensure M&A HR processes comply with labor laws, regulatory requirements, and internal policies • Identify and mitigate legal, compliance, and employee-relations risks • Manage Workday integration and employee data migration • Troubleshoot HR system issues and coordinate with IT and HRIS teams • Partner with Finance, Legal, IT, and Operations as the HR representative on the M&A integration leadership team • Lead cross-functional HR workstreams and support HR leaders through add-on acquisitions • Track and report retention, employee satisfaction, cultural alignment, and integration progress • Provide senior leadership with updates, risks, and mitigation strategies

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field • Minimum of 4 years of HR experience, including at least 3 years managing M&A integrations or large-scale transformations • Experience in professional services or accounting firms strongly preferred • Deep knowledge of HR processes and M&A best practices, including HCM systems, legal and policy integration, and benefits harmonization • Ability to lead large-scale change efforts that foster engagement and minimize disruption • Strong understanding of labor laws, HR compliance, and risk mitigation in an M&A context • Ability to collaborate across departments and lead multidisciplinary teams • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and ability to develop data-driven solutions • Exceptional communication skills across all organizational levels • Experience integrating corporate cultures and building unity across merged teams • Strong project management skills and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously • Proficiency with Workday, payroll systems, data migration, HR analytics and reporting tools, and Microsoft Planner or Wrike • Master's degree or HR certification such as SHRM or SPHR preferred