Spotlight On: Andy Young, Assistant Managing Partner, Forvis Mazars

November 2025 — In an interview with Invest:, Andy Young, assistant managing partner at Forvis Mazars, detailed the firm’s strategic growth and commitment to the Pittsburgh market. He explained how the recent combination with Mazars has been transformative. “Being able to form this network has opened up a lot of opportunities and has given us the ability to provide that unmatched client experience that we really strive for,” he said. Young also highlighted the strategic importance of the Pittsburgh region and the firm’s innovative approach to talent and technology.

What changes over the past year impacted the company, both globally and specifically in Pittsburgh?

Since forming Forvis Mazars, our clients have seen significant benefits. We have international clients that have operations in the U.S., and clients in the U.S. that have operations abroad. Forming this network has opened up a lot of opportunities and has given us the ability to provide that unmatched client experience that we really strive for. Some of this opportunity has been in the form of talent, including hiring people that have strong SEC experience, for example. That speaks to our commitment to investing in Pittsburgh, realizing that this has the opportunity to be a tremendous growth market for us. Our success hinges on those two things: the network and the ability to continue to get great talent in the door.

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How does Pittsburgh fit into your broader U.S. and global strategy, and what makes the region important for your growth and client service priorities?

If you think about the experience our partners have, our roster for manufacturing and financial institutions is strong. Higher education is extremely important. We have a national-leading higher education practice. There are more than 30 publicly traded companies in Pittsburgh which is why we feel like we’ve got a huge opportunity here. From an energy perspective, Pittsburgh is second only to Texas in terms of natural gas production. Whether with the producers or with the entities that provide support to that industry, we see a future for our team to support the energy industry. Not to mention the recent major investment being made in the Pittsburgh region, the Pittsburgh airport. 

What strategies are you using to attract and retain top accounting and advisory talent in Pittsburgh?

Our industry, for a number of years, has had some challenges with fewer college students choosing to major in accounting. Pennsylvania recently passed a lower-hours threshold to be able to sit for the exam and become a CPA — one of many states to do so in effort to open up more pathways to earning a CPA license. Although there was some good news recently showing that accounting majors were up 12% nationally in 2024 compared to 2023, the fact remains that fewer young people are earning accounting degrees than when I started with the firm. That trend has caused many firms of all sizes to rethink how they hire.

At Forvis Mazars, we prioritize trying to get our talent up to speed and supporting their continued growth and development from day one. Today, these young professionals have to know what quality work looks like a lot quicker. Technology such as AI is taking some of the load off, but we lean into that with our people, letting them show off their skills and talent to our clients much earlier on. The really fun part is the relationships that we build with our clients, and making sure that they see that from the get-go is critical. That’s why we feel like we can really attract and retain high quality employees.

What significant tax and advisory trends are shaping your clients’ needs right now, particularly around clean energy tax credits and climate risk dashboards?

A very robust federal tax bill was just passed, and that presents a lot of opportunities for our clients, as well as for our people. For our region, there are numerous benefits, including 100% depreciation and expensing of provisions for certain manufacturing facilities. Hopefully that encourages investment in the region. While clean energy credits were drastically impacted by the new tax bill, significant opportunities remain and we have a team dedicated to navigating these credits.

Forvis Mazars has worked to develop tools that help our clients navigate these new rules. We also have our EDGE group, which is the firm’s innovation lab. They are on the front end of making sure that the technology we are utilizing is cutting edge. We allow anyone from across the firm to submit an idea to the EDGE team, typically to either help solve issues our clients are experiencing, or to help our teams work smarter and more efficiently. The EDGE team partners with others across the firm on these ideas by listening to understand, leveraging the right tools and technology, and building something that has the potential to help our clients or teams, or both. 

How is innovation and technology shaping the delivery of accounting and consulting services, particularly with the cutting-edge tools you mentioned?

Everybody talks about AI. It very much is a game changer, and I think it can really help us provide more value and get us where we need to be a little bit quicker, which frees our people up to focus more on the strategic issues that our clients need us to focus on. For instance, we have our new state and local tax software, SALT Explorer, which helps multi-state contractors navigate the complexities of working across many tax regimes. It’s a state-of-the-art tool which has seen strong success for our clients early in the program’s life.

In addition to helping with the clean energy credits, the program provides comprehensive information critical to making an informed decision about possibly operating in a given state. That makes it a powerful forecasting tool for our clients. We are leaning into those technologies, asking how we can do some of the things we’ve historically done a little quicker, which allows us to focus on the bigger issues for clients.

Can you share examples of your nonprofit initiatives and collaborations, and how they align with your broader ESG and corporate responsibility goals?

One of the things that I love about Forvis Mazars is our culture of giving back. The Forvis Mazars Foundation has a national footprint, but all of the donations are locally focused. Within every local market, our partners and leaders contribute to the Foundation, and each local office choses how they would like to allocate those funds in their own community. It is important that we have that local focus.

In addition, we also have our annual IMPACT Days. Our employee engagement council will decide where to volunteer and this past year, our group volunteered with an organization in Pittsburgh called Global Links. Global Links collects medical supplies and toiletries and then provides them to those in need. Our team separated and organized supplies for distribution. It was a great experience for our people. The willingness to give back is ingrained in our team and it’s another way to keep us engaged with our neighbors.

What are the key goals and priorities for you and for the Pittsburgh office for the next two to three years?

We’ve been in Pittsburgh now for more than 10 years. Later this calendar year we will be moving into a new office on the North Shore which our team is very excited about. We have a solid commitment from the national firm to continue investing in Pittsburgh.

Longer term, we really want to be viewed as a trusted partner in Pittsburgh and to the companies that are local, to help them unlock their full business potential. Forvis Mazars is here for the long haul. Pittsburgh continues to reinvent itself and evolve, and I feel like we’re right there with it. We really feel that we can continue to add value and grow our relationships more, because there is a strong investment coming from abroad.

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