Financial Reporting Associate

About the role

Open positions: typical hiring occurs for December, February and June start dates, however, we welcome the opportunity to meet and hire exceptional candidates at any point during the year. We are looking for an energetic professional who enjoys problem solving, aspires to create genuine impact to clients, and appreciates working through technical finance and accounting issues.

Responsibilities

• Completing our new-hire training program. The training covers our internal algorithms, programming tools, and client report categories.
• Supporting ongoing financial reporting engagements, by learning the inner workings of client processes, what purposes they serve, and how they address client needs.
• Executing client processes, thereby demonstrating excellent attention to detail, drafting client emails, and collaborating with more experienced team members to ensure client expectations are met.
• Designing, implementing, and documenting the underlying data handling processes, ensuring that solutions are consistent with the terms of the client’s compensation plans and adhere to accounting standards.
• Participating in client delivery meetings and external audit review sessions, ensuring that clients understand the work product delivered and can utilize the reports in their financial reporting, and their external auditors grasp all essential features of the solution.
• Support in various practice initiatives related to risk management, process reengineering, and technical research.
• Implementing and enhancing control measures within the practice to ensure risk is being properly managed in client engagements.
• Developing specific control tests, performing end-to-end analyses of processes to understand where there is risk, and assisting in compilation of high-quality work papers for future reference and re-performance.
• Consulting associates will be supported by leaders of the practice in an effort to train and develop skills related to engagement management early in their careers.

Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters in accounting, finance, economics, or related discipline. Please be sure your GPA is listed on your resume.
• 0 – 4 years experience in a financial reporting, finance, advisory or audit role. Candidates at a more senior level may be considered for a different position within the practice.
• Expertise and experience in theoretical accounting subjects: capability to interpret complex accounting theory and translate into a process-based understanding of how data should flow and be manipulated.
• Ability and willingness to think critically and solve “out-of-the-box” problems independently.
• Creativity in engineering processes from both a controls and efficiency perspective.
• Maturity in internal/external communication and time management.

Skills

• Exposure to database design principles.
• Exposure to SAS or another programming language for high-volume data handling.
• CPA license or CPA candidacy; CFA or other similar pursuits also welcomed.