Senior Customer Success Jobs in Decatur, GA (NOW HIRING)

Basic Function

We are looking for a Senior Customer Success Specialist to join our Tax and Accounting division and play a critical role in helping our customers-primarily public accounting firms, with a strong focus on audit practices-achieve meaningful, measurable outcomes from our products and services.

This is a post-sale, customer-facing role responsible for owning customer relationships across the full lifecycle from onboarding through renewal readiness and advocacy. You will act as a trusted advisor to audit and accounting professionals, leveraging your understanding of public accounting workflows-especially financial audit engagements-to ensure customers achieve measurable business value from the company's products and services.

This role is ideal for candidates with prior experience in public accounting, particularly in external financial audit, who can translate industry knowledge into customer success strategies that accelerate time to value, drive adoption and retention, proactively manage risk, and support revenue protection and growth.

Essential Duties and responsibilities

• Apply knowledge of public accounting-particularly audit workflows, compliance requirements, and firm operations-to guide customers on best practices, use case adoption, and process optimization within our solutions.

• Lead outcomefocused customer onboarding byvalidatingcustomer business goals, success criteria, scope, and constraints,establishingonboarding and adoption plans, and coordinating with internal delivery teams to ensure customers achieve early, measurable business value rather than only technical implementation.

• Develop, cocreate, andmaintainCustomer Success Plans that define customer businessobjectives, priority use cases, success metrics, milestones, and timelines, and use these plans as the primary framework for guiding ongoing engagement, alignment, and decisionmaking.

• Own proactive customer health management by monitoring adoption, engagement, support trends, survey feedback, and progress against milestones;maintainingaccuratehealth assessments;identifyingearly warning signs of risk or churn; andinitiatingtimely, datadriven interventions.

• Execute lifecyclebased customer engagement strategies by conducting regular valuebased checkins, introducing new use cases and best practices, adjusting engagement cadence based on customer maturity and complexity, and continuously reinforcing delivered value to prevent stagnation.

• Serve as the internal point of coordination for assigned accounts by aligning Sales, Support, Professional Services, and Product teams around customer priorities, risks, and outcomes, and byrepresentingthe customer's voice to ensure a consistent and unified customer experience.

• Plan andfacilitateExecutive Business Reviews that assess outcomes achieved versus plan, articulate value realized, highlight adoption and health insights,identifyrisks and mitigation actions, and align future priorities, using EBRs as a key checkpoint for renewal readiness.

• Support customer renewals and expansion efforts by ensuring customers are renewalready well in advance of contract milestones,identifyingexpansion opportunities based on outcomes achieved and value realized, reducing friction during the renewal process, and partnering with Sales on commercial discussions.

• Build and nurture customer advocacy byidentifyingcustomers who have realized meaningful outcomes andfacilitatingadvocacy activities such as references, case studies, testimonials, advisory councils, and speaking opportunities aligned to delivered value.

• Resolve complex customer challenges by diagnosing root causes, leading crossfunctional resolution efforts, balancing immediate remediation with longterm success considerations, and preventing recurrence of systemic issues.

• Drive continuous improvement by collecting structured customer feedback, sharing insights with Product and Leadership teams,identifyingrecurring friction points across the customer base, and contributing to the refinement of onboarding, health monitoring, and engagement practices.

Job Qualifications
This role is well-suited for professionals transitioning from public accounting-particularly those with audit experience-who are interested in moving into a client-facing, strategic role within a SaaS environment. Candidates should bring a strong understanding of audit workflows, CPA firm operations, and client engagement dynamics, combined with a passion for driving customer outcomes.

Experience:

2+ years of external financial audit experience within a public accounting firm or similar environment

Working knowledge of audit methodologies, workflows, and regulatory/compliance considerations within CPA firms
Foundational knowledge of Tax and Accounting concepts (deep familiarity with how audit practices operate is a significant plus)

Experience with CCH products or other similar tax and accounting software

Strong communication skills and ability to lead customer conversations around best practices as it relates to use of Tax and Audit software

Experience working directly with customers (ie client advisory)

CPA certification or progress toward CPA highly valued

A huge plus if you possess the above AND ALSO have:

B2B, SaaS, technology, or solutions-based environment experience
Experience engaging with senior or executive-level customer stakeholders
Hands-on account management experience where you've owned a book of business
Experience leading Executive Business Reviews (EBRs)
Familiarity with Customer Success tools and CRM systems (Salesforce, Certinia, etc.)
Experience contributing customer insights to product or process improvement initiatives

Travelrequirements

>10%

Physical Demands

Normaloffice environment.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by most people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties and responsibilities and requirements.

To maintain a fair and genuine hiring process, we kindly ask that all candidates participate in interviews without the assistance of AI tools or external prompts. Our interview process is designed to assess your individual skills, experiences, and communication style. We value authenticity and want to ensure we're getting to know you-not a digital assistant. To help maintain this integrity, we ask to remove virtual backgrounds and include in-person interviews in our hiring process. Please note that use of AI-generated responses or third-party support during interviews will be grounds for disqualification from the recruitment process.

Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a Wolters Kluwer office as part of the recruitment process.

Compensation:

Compensation range listed is based on primary location of the position. Actual base salary offer is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skills, experience and actual hiring location. Your recruiter can share more information about the specific offer for the job location during the hiring process.

Wolters Kluwer offers a wide variety of competitive benefits and programs to help meet your needs and balance your work and personal life, including but not limited to: Medical, Dental, & Vision Plans, 401(k), FSA/HSA, Commuter Benefits, Tuition Assistance Plan, Vacation and Sick Time, and Paid Parental Leave. Full details of our benefits are available upon request.