Assurance Experienced Senior

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The Assurance Experienced Senior will coordinate the day‑to‑day "in‑charge" duties of planning, fieldwork, and "wrap‑up". Responsibilities include preparing financial statements with disclosures, applying GAAP as necessary, documenting, validating, testing, and assessing control systems. The candidate acts as the client contact for basic questions and may be involved in reviews and agreed‑upon procedure engagements.

• Apply knowledge of factors affecting policy effectiveness or risk mitigation.
• Serve as Auditor in charge, ensuring fieldwork execution, timetable adherence, policy compliance, and budget oversight.
• Apply transactional flow knowledge to audit work.
• Document, validate, and assess internal control effectiveness.
• Communicate internal control improvements and accounting procedure enhancements.
• Supervise audit staff work and explain shortcomings.

• Apply governing principles to client transactions and document application.
• Understand and communicate financial statement disclosure requirements.
• Identify and apply new pronouncements to client situations.
• Discuss alternative GAAPs with senior management.
• Identify complex accounting issues and seek resolution.

• Apply knowledge of SEC regulations and PCAOB guidelines and document application.
• Review clients’ SEC filings for accuracy and completeness, ensuring support in work papers.
• Prepare required communications to Client and Audit Committee.
• Plan and execute Section 404 internal control audit, design test plans, evaluate deficiencies, and assess overall control environment.

• Apply professional standards knowledge and document professional standards application.
• Formulate and communicate the audit plan.
• Apply GAAS to complex issues and consult others as appropriate.
• Apply audit skepticism and determine testing scope.
• Use BDO audit manuals as appropriate.
• Document deviations from BDO policy with approval.
• Seek opportunities to improve internal controls and draft required communication.

• Apply BDO standards guiding effective and efficient delivery of quality services and products.
• Use BDO audit approach, methodologies, tools, and technology to execute audit with quality and efficiency.
• Identify and propose outcomes for critical issues.

• Employ methodology to seek or maintain information from authoritative sources and draw conclusions.
• Use internal and external research tools and select methodology for routine requests.
• Research complex accounting areas and form independent opinions on treatment, document impact.
• Organize findings in a usable format using Accounting Research Manager, BDO Assurance Manual, Yahoo Finance, etc.
• Assist engagement manager with gathering adequate information for audit strategy.

• Coordinate timing of planning, fieldwork, and review with audit team and client and assist engagement executives in developing the audit engagement budget.
• Develop draft Audit Engagement Planning Memorandum, audit programs, and budgets.
• Establish responsibilities of individual audit staff for specific audit work.
• Monitor and report engagement budget to actual, advise potential overruns.

• Supervise a team of audit professionals (1 to
  5). Provide verbal and written performance feedback to associates. Coach associates to provide on‑the‑job learning.

• 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.

• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, preferred.
• Experience with assurance applications…