You want choice, knowledge and opportunities; you want to make an impact. We want those things for you, too. We’ll provide you with the freedom to choose your career path and the tools to achieve success. It’s important that you enjoy your career with us.
Freed will help you advance your career.
Success means enjoying what you do.
Your Career
Careers at Freed Maxick CPAs
When you join our team, you’ll benefit from rewarding positions, collaborating with talented people and enjoying a diverse career experience.
Building Your Accounting Career
Freed Maxick gives you the support to follow an advancing career path. Capable staff associates advance to positions with more responsibilities by demonstrating their professional skills on the job. As an entry-level accountant, you’ll work with an array of firm clients that represent various industries.
Advancement to mid-level positions comes with experience, and to more senior management positions as you develop skill sets and demonstrate your management capabilities and technical expertise.
Experience Brings Opportunity
When you’re promoted to Supervisor or Manager, that means you’ve already developed in an area of specialization such as a service niche or industry, like manufacturing, healthcare or international commerce.
If you become a Director, that means you’ll have demonstrated the ability to be a trusted business advisor, with high levels of professionalism, ethics and sound technical expertise. You’ll have proven yourself adept at sales and marketing, and the career development of staff.
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Learning is the best way to see if Freed is the right fit for you.
Student Opportunities
Learn how you can become involved with Freed Maxick while still pursuing your education.
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Expand your options through education.
CPA Exam
Educate Yourself
You are just beginning your career in accounting, and many exciting challenges lie ahead. At Freed Maxick, we’ll help you develop the foundation you need to face challenges head-on while you take your career to the next level by taking the CPA Exam. You must pass this exam in order to qualify for licensure as a Certified Public Accountant in any of the 55 U.S. jurisdictions—the 50 states; the District of Columbia; Puerto Rico; U.S. Virgin Islands; Guam; and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands.
Steps for Success
- Prepare for the Exam
- Review the Content Specification Outlines (CSOs)
- Review the Policy on New Pronouncements
- Review the Confidentiality and Break Policy Statement
- Take a Tutorial and Sample Tests
- Study
- Decide on the Jurisdiction to Which to Apply (NY State)
- Apply for the Examination
- Schedule the Examination
- Take the Examination
- Receive Score(s)
- Celebrate
CPA Exam Policy for Full-time Employees
As a full-time employee of our firm, you are strongly encouraged to take and pass the CPA exam.
Freed Maxick will assist you in the following ways:
Studying
We partner with Becker CPA Review to provide assistance to our employees studying for the exam.
- CPA students who complete the Becker course pass the CPA exam at twice the rate of non-Becker Students
- Over 400,000 CPAs have successfully passed the exam using the Becker CPA Review course
- The course is offered in three flexible formats: live, online or a self-study CD
As an employee of our Firm, you will qualify to take the course at a significant savings. The cost can be taken as a payroll deduction.
Registering
The Directors of Freed Maxick CPAs offer financial assistance to our employees in taking and passing the exam, thereby providing them a much-valued, transferable and lifelong credential.
This policy applies to all entry-level, first and second year staff accountants, who are CPA/Promotion track employees:
- Upon hire, you will receive a bonus to cover exam registration fees
- You will have six months from your start date to register for the CPA exam
Sitting
You will be paid for the time you take to sit for the exam: two days per section for a maximum of eight days.
Passing
If you sit for, and pass all parts of the CPA exam within the first two years of your hire date, you will receive a bonus.
Campus Events
Campus Events
This year, all Meet the Accountants nights and Campus Interviews will be held virtually. Check back soon for college and university dates!
Meet the Accountants
| St. John Fisher | |
| Le Moyne College | |
| Canisius College | |
| SUNY Geneseo | |
| RIT | |
| University at Buffalo | |
| SUNY Oswego | |
| Alfred | |
| St. Bonaventure | |
| SUNY Fredonia | |
| SUNY Brockport | |
| Niagara University |
Interviews
| University at Buffalo | |
| St. John Fisher | |
| SUNY Brockport | |
| St. Bonaventure | |
| Niagara University | |
| SUNY Oswego | |
| Canisius College | |
| SUNY Geneseo | |
| SUNY Fredonia |