Rank #14
Brown Smith Wallace LLP
Accounting
About
Brown Smith Wallace is a top 100 full-service public accounting and business advisory firm. We are the fifth-largest firm in the St. Louis metropolitan area with more than 300 employees. Our client base includes publicly traded and privately held companies and high-net-worth individuals. We provide clients with tax, accounting and audit services, and a variety of business consulting services including cybersecurity, business performance consulting and transaction advisory. In addition, we offer specialty tax services such as family wealth planning; state and local tax consulting, including sales, use and property tax consulting and compliance; and international tax services. We serve a wide variety of industries with particular expertise in broker-dealers, construction, distribution, financial institutions, health care, insurance, manufacturing, not for profits, private equity, public sector, real estate, retail, startups and service companies.
Benefits
The benefits package includes medical, prescription, dental and vision coverage as well as short-term disability, long-term disability and firm-paid maternity leave benefits. The firm also offers generous PTO – including unlimited vacation time for managers and principals – flex-time, work-from-home options and remote access. Some additional unusual benefits include casual Fridays and tax season “thank yous” – catered lunches/dinners, fresh fruit, in-office massages, dry cleaning pickup and happy hours. Our firm wellness initiative, Be Strong & Well, encourages a healthy lifestyle through courses on stress management, monthly wellness challenges and healthier snack options in our café. Birthdays are celebrated with a monthly cake and monthly birthday breakfasts, which provide a relaxed atmosphere to receive updates and discuss any comments or questions about the firm with our managing partner. Employees also regularly have the opportunity to win tickets to St. Louis sporting events.