CLA exists to create opportunities for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, outsourcing, audit, tax, and consulting services. With more than 7,000 people, 120 U.S. locations and a global affiliation, we promise to know you and help you. For more information visit CLAconnect.com.

Investment advisory services are offered through CliftonLarsonAllen Wealth Advisors, LLC, an SEC-registered investment advisor.

CLA is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, protected veteran status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Our people come to work each and every day with a clear-cut purpose: to create opportunities for our clients, our people, and our communities..

Meeting you exactly where you are

For us, everything begins with living the CLA Promise, which is to know and help you. We’re able to do that because our people are so much more than accountants — they are colleagues and friends immersed in their respective industries, which means they have the know-how to be real difference-makers for your organization.

Services That Create Opportunities

Our vast network of professionals and resources are seamlessly presented and delivered for you.

Welcome to a seamless experience

We believe that by getting to know you well, we’ll be in a better position to help you. We start with a conversation, ask questions that matter, and listen. You’ll find innovative advice that is clear and actionable, driven by industry-specialized teams. We call it the CLA seamless experience, and it’s expressed in the values that drive our behavior: curious, collaborative, transparent, inclusive, and reliable. It’s simply how we do business.

Five simple words lead the way

We’re one family, working together to create opportunities. And every day, these five values drive us as we work to meet our clients’ needs:

Curious — We care, we listen, we get to know you.

Collaborative — We help you seamlessly, bringing innovative teams to the table.

Transparent — Our communication is clear and authentic.

Inclusive — We embrace all voices and create opportunities for you in an energetic and inspiring environment.

Reliable — We respond in hours, not days; we follow through, and produce quality results.

We offer four distinct advantages

Deep Industry Specialization

First and foremost, our people are immersed in your industry. We know you, your organization, and your industry, combining our knowledge with yours to make you stronger.

Seamless, Integrated Capabilities

From startup through succession, we offer you what you need when you need it by leveraging a vast network of resources.

Premier Resource for Private Businesses and Their Owners

We believe entrepreneurs are the backbone of the economy, so we tailor our offerings for the privately held businesses — large and small — and to meet the specific needs of owners.

Inspired Careers

At CLA, you will work with resourceful people who are empowered to serve you rather than to merely perform obligatory functions.

Our client and community engagement efforts are designed to unify the work and missions of DEI, the CLA Foundation, our community engagement team, and our client service efforts. This focus area challenges us to live the CLA Promise in a bold way as we work with community leaders to draw upon the wisdom, strength, and initiatives already present in our communities.

The CLA Foundation joined the CLA family in committing to making “DEI part of our DNA.” To better understand the communities connected through our grants, we worked with past grant recipients to update our application to learn more about demographics, including whom they serve as well as the makeup of the organization’s staff and board. Our grant committee is focused on how grantees represent our core mission of creating career opportunities in the areas of education, employment, and entrepreneurship through connection to diverse networks that are inclusive of all genders, races, Veterans, and the disability community. In 2022, the CLA Foundation granted $1.9 million to connect diverse networks across the country.

CLA is building a culture that welcomes different beliefs and perspectives — so we can truly know and help our clients, our communities, and each other.

We seek to approach DEI the way we approach our daily work — to weave our initiatives seamlessly into everything we do.

We’ve made progress since our 2021 transparency report, and our desire is to be representative of the communities we serve by providing a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone has equitable opportunity. This will allow us to:

• Hear the voices of our underrepresented CLA family members
• Actively learn, listen, and reflect
• Create a safe place for all
• Then implement DEI strategies throughout our five focus areas

Our five DEI focus areas

Our DEI plan focuses our activity in five areas:

Leadership — We commit to lead by example, building mentorship and sponsorship opportunities, so that our pipelines can be filled with diverse candidates.

Recruiting — Whether on college campuses or hiring experienced professionals, we’re building intentionality into our talent acquisition plans.

Operations — We operate with a lens of inclusion, from our event planning to our policies and our supplier diversity program.

Employee engagement — We foster inclusion and belonging through DEI events, virtual belonging communities, and authentic coaching connections.

Community and client impact — We create opportunities for our CLA family to give time and financial support to DEI initiatives, whether through volunteer paid time off, nominations to our CLA Foundation, or cultivating new client and prospect relationships that reflect the communities we serve.

Our DEI work engages the entire CLA family, from interns to our leader, Jen Leary, who signed the CEO Action Pledge, the largest CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion within the workplace.

Our DEI journey

We’ve been on our DEI journey since 2014, and in 2022, we invested in an outside assessment of our DEI activity, added nine full-time DEI roles, framed a mentorship and sponsorship program, and hosted our first belonging and inclusion summit. We also expanded our relationship with the National Association of Black Accountants, which included a $1 million dollar grant to seed the Pathways to College program.

Our DEI activity continues to be informed by the ongoing national conversation on race, which contributed to our 2020 collaborative public statement that reflects our beliefs. Today, every leader and every location is responsible to engage, implement, and maintain a proactive DEI plan.