Director of Quality Control - Assurance Services

Director of Quality Control

Do you want a career without limits? Do you want to shape your own future and be surrounded by people who listen? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you at Smith + Howard.

Smith + Howard is a family of companies that offers tax, audit, accounting and advisory and wealth management services. We are headquartered in Atlanta with offices across the Southeast, while still offering a local firm flavor.

We offer competitive pay, excellent training opportunities and great benefits. You can help influence our culture and have the support and dedication from our leaders to help you achieve your career goals. Smith + Howard provides a great opportunity for professional growth and advancement within one of the nation’s top accounting firms.

Summary
The Director of Quality Control – Assurance Services is responsible for the design, implementation, monitoring, and continuous improvement of Smith & Howard, PC’s System of Quality Management (SOQM) across all assurance service lines, office locations, and offshore engagement resources. Operating within the firm’s Alternative Practice Structure (APS), this role ensures consistent quality, methodology, and regulatory compliance across a multi-office, multi-platform, onshore/offshore environment, while driving standardization and efficiency in audit approach and execution.

This role also works closely with the firm’s AI Steering Committee, serving as the audit quality control perspective on emerging technology initiatives to help ensure Smith & Howard remains at the leading edge of innovation while upholding the highest standards of audit quality and regulatory compliance.

This is a firm-wide leadership role requiring close collaboration with office managing partners, engagement partners, the Assurance Services leadership team, and IT/technology teams to ensure quality objectives are met regardless of location or software platform in use. This role also supports and collaborates on firm-wide CPE compliance, including helping to form and oversee a committee that drives and delivers continuing professional education across all offices.

• Serve as the firm’s subject matter expert on SQMS No. 1 and SQMS No. 2 (or successor standards), ensuring the firm’s SOQM is fully designed, implemented, and operating effectively across all offices and service lines.
• Maintain and update the firm’s quality objectives, risk assessments, and responses in accordance with the SOQM, adjusting as the firm’s risk profile, personnel, or structure changes.
• Lead the firm’s annual SOQM evaluation process and prepare required documentation and conclusions for firm leadership.
• Monitor regulatory and professional standard developments (AICPA, state boards of accountancy, and other applicable regulatory bodies) and proactively update firm policies and procedures accordingly.
• Serve as primary liaison during peer review or regulatory examination processes related to quality management.

• Oversee quality control consistency across all Smith & Howard office locations, ensuring uniform application of firm methodology regardless of legacy office practices or historical procedures.
• Identify and address gaps or inconsistencies in quality practices between offices, particularly those arising from mergers, acquisitions, or the Alternative Practice Structure.
• Partner with office leadership to embed a firm-wide quality culture while respecting local client service needs.
• Coordinate periodic internal inspections/monitoring reviews across offices to assess engagement quality and compliance with firm policy.

• Ensure consistent application of audit methodology…