Senior Audit Associate - Banking

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services.

About the role

Crowe is growing tremendously and seeking future leaders with a partner career path or growth opportunities. There is the opportunity to transition between different industry verticals within Audit & Assurance that align with your professional goals. We’re looking for Audit Senior Associates with experience in the Banking industry. As an Audit Senior Associate, you will further learn to lead, gain deep industry insight, and grow relationships. With access to many resources and team support, your work includes:

• Running client engagements from start to finish, including all aspects of financial statement preparation, internal staffing of engagements, project scheduling and budgeting, planning of the engagement, and related administrative functions.
• Supervising, training, and mentoring staff and interns on audit process and assessing performance of staff for engagement reviews.
• Maintaining outstanding relationships with clients to increase customer happiness and working with client management and staff at all levels to perform audit services.
• Collaborating with your audit team to identify and resolve client issues discovered during the audit process.
• Researching and analyzing financial statements and audit issues using electronic databases, and employing audit software to review and compile financial information.
• Engaging with key client management to collect information, resolve audit-related problems, and make recommendations for business and process improvements.

Requirements

• 2+ years of recent and relevant public accounting external audit experience.
• A background with experience in external audit working with Banking clients.
• Organization, social, technical, and accounting and auditing skills to work efficiently with clients and staff as well as build positive relationships.
• Experience with engagement management, reviews, and staff supervision.
• Ability to multi-task since planning, executing, and wrapping up various engagements may be performed concurrently.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• This position requires meeting the education requirement for CPA certification in your aligned home office state (150 eligible credit hours).
• Masters in Accounting, Finance, or related focus is preferred.
• CPA strongly preferred, or pursuing CPA licensing in your state of residence.
• Ability to work additional hours as needed and travel to various client sites.

About the Team

The Audit & Assurance team at Crowe provides traditional attestation services as well as accounting and consulting on applying accounting principles. Audit & Assurance professionals demonstrate deep specialization through an understanding of the market and business challenges their clients face and a dedication to audit quality. Though Crowe has various business units, Audit & Assurance is one of the largest practices.

Pay

A reasonable estimate of the current range is $70,600.00 - $139,800.00 per year.

Benefits

At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package.