Assurance Experienced Senior

About the role

The Assurance Experienced Senior will be responsible for coordinating the day-to-day "in-charge" duties of planning, fieldwork, and "wrap-up" to include the preparing of financial statements with disclosures, applying most areas of GAAP as necessary and documenting, validating, testing, and assessing various control systems. This position is also responsible for acting as the client contact for basic questions and information and may be involved in reviews and agreed-upon procedure engagements.

Responsibilities

• Applies knowledge and understanding of the collective effect of various factors on establishing or enhancing effectiveness, or mitigating the risks, of specific policies and procedures.
• As Auditor in charge is responsible to the engagement manager for the day-to-day conduct of the audit work and in particular for ensuring that the field work is executed and completed as planned, in accordance with timetable, with Firm’s policies and procedures and to budget.
• Applies knowledge of transactional flow and key transactional cycles to complete audit work.
• Documents, validates, and assesses effectiveness of internal control system.
• Determines and communicates improvements to client internal controls and accounting procedures.
• Supervise the work of audit staff and review workpapers and conclusions and explaining any shortcomings to them.

Requirements

• Applies knowledge and understanding of governing principles; applying these principles to client transactions; and documenting and communicating an understanding and application of these principles.
• Understand and effectively communicate financial statement disclosure requirements to clients.
• Identifies and applies new pronouncements to client situations.
• Identifies, analyzes, and discusses alternative generally accepted accounting principles for the client, when necessary, with the Manager, Senior Manager and engagement partner.
• Identifies complex accounting issues and brings them to the attention of superiors for resolution.
• Applies knowledge and understanding of SEC regulations and PCAOB guidelines, and documents and communicates the application of these principles.
• Reads and reviews clients’ SEC filings, ensuring accuracy and completeness, and also ensuring all financial information is supported in the workpapers and appropriately tested.
• Prepares required communications to the Client and the Audit Committee.
• Plans and executes Section 404 internal control audit including obtaining an understanding of the control environment, designing test plans, evaluating deficiencies, and assessing the overall financial reporting control environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Statistics, required OR Bachelor’s degree in other focus area and CPA certification, required.
• Master’s degree in Accountancy, preferred.
• Three (3) or more years of prior relevant audit experience and/or public accounting, private industry accounting or consulting/professional services experience, required.
• Prior basic supervisory experience, preferred.
• Eligible to sit for the CPA exams upon starting employment, required, and actively pursuing completion of the exams, required.
• CPA, preferred.

Skills

• Proven solid verbal and written communication skills.
• Possess people development and delegation skills.
• Possess executive presence - needs to be able to be primary contact for the client.
• Ability to "in-charge" all stages of the audit, including planning, fieldwork, and "wrap-up."
• Ability to perform the completion of an audit of a complex company.
• Ability to prepare and/or review financial statements with disclosures in accordance with GAAP requirements.

Benefits

Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

Pay

California Range: $95,000 - $135,000
Cleveland, Ohio Range: $80,000 - $92,000
Colorado Range: $80,000 - $105,000
Illinois Range: $85,000 - $100,000
Maryland Range: $92,000 - $110,000
Minnesota Range: $80,000 - $92,000
New Jersey Range: $96,000 - $103,000
NYC/Long Island/Westchester Range: $80,000 - $115,000
Washington Range: $85,000 - $105,000
Washington DC Range: $92,000 - $110,000

Schedule

Not specified

Company Information

BDO is committed to delivering exceptional experiences to middle market leaders by sharing insight-driven perspectives, helping companies take business as usual to better than usual. With industry knowledge and experience, a breadth and depth of resources, and unwavering commitment to quality, we pride ourselves on welcoming diverse perspectives and understanding the experience of our professionals and clients. Empowering team members to explore their full potential, our talented team brings varying skills, knowledge, and experience to proactively help our clients navigate an expanding array of complex challenges and opportunities. Celebrating ingenuity and innovation to transform our business and help our clients transform theirs, BDO focuses on resilience and sustainability to positively impact our people, clients, and communities. BDO Total Rewards that encompass so much more than traditional “benefits.” Click here to find out more!

About Us

BDO USA, P.A. is an EO employer M/F/Veteran/Disability