GBQ is a 70-year-old accounting, tax, and advisory practice with 201–500 employees across four Midwest locations. The hiring mix—dominated by finance (18 roles) with interns and staff-level hires—and pain-point cluster around billable hours, budget realization, and cost management reveal a labor-intensive service operation scaling through headcount and operational efficiency rather than product or technology innovation.
Notable leadership hires: Tax Director
GBQ Partners is an accounting, tax, and advisory firm headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, serving mid-market clients from offices in Columbus, Cincinnati, Toledo, and Indianapolis. The firm offers assurance, tax consulting, valuation, forensic advisory, transaction advisory, state and local tax, ESOP services, cybersecurity, and bookkeeping. Active hiring focuses on finance and legal roles, with significant intake at the intern and staff levels. The business model is time-and-materials: core challenges center on billable hour targets, cost containment, and departmental efficiency—typical of professional services where revenue is tied directly to utilization rates.
GBQ offers assurance, tax planning and compliance, valuation, forensic and dispute advisory, transaction advisory, state and local tax consulting, ESOP structuring, cybersecurity, and bookkeeping services for mid-market clients.
GBQ is headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, with additional offices in Cincinnati, Toledo, and Indianapolis. All hiring is currently US-based.
Other companies in the same industry, closest in size