WHERE WORK AND PLAY INTERSECT WITH COMMITMENT AND GROWTH
Our beliefs are simple: provide excellent client service, a collaborative and relaxed atmosphere, promote from within, and help the communities in which we reside.
At Barnes Wendling CPAs, we value not only our clients and the communities we serve, but also our team members. Here, you will have the opportunity to learn in a variety of industries and choose an area of specialization in which to become a subject matter expert. And you don’t have to leave to advance. Do you know that 85 percent of our directors have been promoted from within? And we have several senior managers who started as interns.
Life isn’t one dimensional and neither is the workplace. We offer our team members a multi-faceted experience with schedules that support a family-oriented environment.
Benefits
Our comprehensive benefits package includes:
- Competitive salary
- Bonus program
- Paid parking
- Casual dress
- Excellent medical, dental, vision, disability and life insurance
- Generous paid time off
- 401(k) with company match
- Fee participation program
- Meals during busy season
- Summer hours program
- Flexible work schedule, including hybrid and remote
- Mentoring program
- Tuition assistance
- Professional development
- Professional group membership dues coverage
- CPA exam preparation and reward program
- Complimentary continuing professional education
- Full-time, part-time, and seasonal opportunities
- Fitness facility
- Company celebration and events
MISSION + CORE VALUES
Our mission is to build mutually profitable business relationships by providing outstanding client service.
The directors at Barnes Wendling CPAs developed our core values, which have become the core beliefs that define and inspire our team members. We are a firm dedicated to our clients, our team members and our community.
Client Service Values – Professional, creative and exceeding client expectations
Team Values – Providing a positive environment that fosters a balanced and successful team
Community Values – Committed to bettering our communities
OPEN POSITIONS
- Tax Senior
- Tax Manager
- Tax Principal
- ASD Senior
- ASD Manager
- Employee Benefit Plan ASD Senior or Manager
- Administrative Assistant
- Audit Associate
- Spring & Summer Internship (Summer 2025 Internship positions are filled)
Transparency in Coverage
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Culture
At Barnes Wendling CPAs, we treat our employees with respect, honesty, and fairness while providing the flexibility to balance work and family responsibilities. We offer our employees unlimited growth opportunities and challenging work while promoting these values in a professional, family-friendly atmosphere. We work hard and celebrate successes along the way!
Community Involvement: Giving Back With Barnes
To support our core value of improving and bettering our communities, our Giving Back with Barnes program encourages and supports our team members’ participation through personal volunteering or not-for-profit board involvement. Our firm’s Outreach Committee, which any team member can join, plans these events throughout the year. Team members volunteer or participate on the boards of the following organizations:
- Cleveland Jewish News Foundation
- Cleveland Metroparks
- Greater Cleveland Volunteers
- Junior Achievement of Greater Cleveland
- Malachi House
- Mount Alverna Village
- Playhouse Square
- Ronald McDonald House Charities of Northeast Ohio
- St. Albert the Great
- The Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland
- Second Harvest Food Bank of North Central Ohio
- Singing Angels
Thanksgiving Art Contest
Barnes Wendling CPAs organizes a local Thanksgiving Art Contest with a generous donation for school art supplies for second through fifth-grade students at the following schools: Cleveland Urban Community School, Norwalk Catholic School, Sandusky Central Catholic School, and Brookside Intermediate School.
We also provide monetary contributions throughout the year to non-profit profit organizations, including:
Internship Program
Looking to jump-start your career in accounting? Our internship provides a variety of hands-on experiences to prepare you for the future. Through our Buddy Program, you will work one-on-one with a team member to help you acclimate quickly to a career in assurance or tax services.
We value our relationships with our interns, and when we have open positions, we always reach out to current and past interns first. Eighty-five (85) percent of our open entry-level positions are filled with interns!
Advance Your Career Here
At Barnes Wendling CPAs, we are committed to provide career growth and opportunities for advancement for our team members. Do you know that some of our senior managers started as interns and 85 percent of our directors have been promoted from within the firm? It’s true.
You can develop your career right here. Our senior staff will support your growth by helping you attain credentials, prepare for exams, and by serving as mentors in a variety of areas. You will also build your interpersonal and professional skills by participating in firm-supported networking events, training seminars, and becoming a member of one or more industry groups.
Since providing outstanding client service is important to us (and part of our mission), we want to make sure you have what you need to do so. Your 360-degree training includes skill development in the following areas:
- Industry-based knowledge gained through working in one or more of our niche areas
- Sales and marketing
- Presentation and public speaking
Our internal training program prepares you for leadership and significant growth potential.
Featured Client Testimonials
BW is a true partner to us. Their knowledge, expertise, and service are a valuable resource to us and play an important role in our success!
John Allen - Vice President of Finance, Kaufman Container
Featured Client Testimonials
I appreciate the exceptional tax advice we received over the years. The (BW team) has a good grasp of our business needs. Thank you for your excellent service.
John Griffiths - Owner, Rae Ann, Inc.
Featured Client Testimonials
The BW team has been fantastic to work with; both the team member at our office as well as at the partner level. Any issues or concerns are handled very efficiently and effectively.
Kelley Needham - Chief Executive Officer, Epilepsy Association
Featured Client Testimonials
Barnes Wendling has been our company accountants for over seven years. Their knowledge has been instrumental in helping us grow strategically during this time. And although we’ve seen many changes in our economy that we cannot control, we’ve always been able to trust the Barnes team to be by our side. The Barnes team feels like family. We can’t thank them enough for their support!
Christine Kloss - Controller, AT&F
Featured Client Testimonials
Barnes Wendling has been our company accountants for over 15 years. During this time, the business has grown exceptionally, and Barnes has kept pace, providing accurate, quality advice. Our finances are more efficient than ever, and the expense of hiring Barnes has been a definite positive add to our bottom line. I give my highest recommendation to their firm.
David Miller, MD - President, Retina Associates of Cleveland
Featured Client Testimonials
Barnes Wendling has provided us guidance and recommendations that have strategically helped strengthen our business and position ourselves for growth. We needed to hire a new VP of Finance and Controller this past year, and they were instrumental in helping us find the best candidates for our company.
Sara Blankenship - President, Kaufman Container
Featured Client Testimonials
We value the trust, accuracy of information, and reliability of Barnes Wendling and Mike Essenmacher personally. Mike has been instrumental as a trusted advisor on accounting, tax, and personnel issues. His advice is always accurate, and he is very reliable. His associates are also very talented.
Dominic Ozanne - President and CEO, Ozanne Construction Company
Featured Client Testimonials
We value Barnes Wendling’s expertise with all things accounting so we can operate our business using our strengths and allowing them to be our experts. They have also brought me a few business sale opportunities to allow me to grow my assets.
John Gaydosh - President and Metallurgical Engineer, Ohio Metallurgical Service
Featured Client Testimonials
Barnes Wendling (especially Lena) did a great job with our financials. Everything. It is extremely refreshing and comforting to know that all of our numbers are not only correct, but they are in the right place(s). Your diligence and reporting truly does make me (personally) feel better.
Thomas Adomaitis - Controller, Bialosky Cleveland
Featured Client Testimonials
I can wholeheartedly tell you that I have yet to work with an audit or tax team that have been more helpful, easy to work with, and committed than the team at Barnes Wendling- I have been through three different firms in the last few years.
Michelle Saylor, Former Controller, Aero Mag
Featured Client Testimonials
Floyd Trouten at Barnes Wendling CPAs is an “expert’s expert” when it comes to M & A accounting. Not only does he understand the evolving details of the Tax Code but he also sees the fine points of their application for owners, managers, investors, and financiers.
Mark A. Filippell, Western Reserve Partners
Featured Client Testimonials
The service is amazing at Barnes Wendling CPAs. The benefit is worth more than the cost. Sometimes it’s true that you get what you pay for.
Mark Boucher - Former Owner, Castle Heating & Air