Assurance Experienced Senior

Assurance Experienced Senior

BDO USA

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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.

• Control Environment: 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, responsible to the engagement manager for the day‑to‑day conduct of the audit work and ensuring field work is executed and completed as planned, in accordance with timetable, firm policies, procedures and to budget.
  
  Applies knowledge of transactional flow and key transactional cycles, documents validation and assesses effectiveness of internal control system, determines and communicates improvements to client internal controls and accounting procedures, supervises the work of audit staff and reviews work papers.
• GAAP: Applies knowledge and understanding of governing principles; applies these principles to client transactions; documents and communicates an understanding of these principles. Understands and effectively communicates financial statement disclosure requirements to clients. Identifies and applies new pronouncements, analyzes alternative GAAPs, discusses with superiors, identifies complex accounting issues and brings them for resolution.
• SEC and PCAOB: Applies knowledge and understanding of SEC regulations and PCAOB guidelines, documents application. Reads and reviews clients’ SEC filings for accuracy and completeness, ensuring financial information is supported and appropriately tested. Prepares required communications to client and audit committee. Plans and executes Section 404 internal control audit, obtaining understanding of control environment, designing test plans, evaluating deficiencies, assessing overall financial reporting control environment.
• GAAS: Applies knowledge and understanding of professional standards, applies principles, documents and communicates. Formulates and communicates audit plan, applies GAAS to complex issues, consults others, applies audit skepticism, uses BDO audit manuals, documents deviations from BDO policy, looks for opportunities to suggest improvement of internal controls.
• Methodology: Applies BDO standards that guide effective and efficient delivery of quality services, applies BDO audit approach and methodologies, uses tools and technology to execute audit efficiently and completely, identifies and proposes outcomes to critical issues.
• Research: Applies methodology to seek or maintain information from authoritative sources, draws conclusions, selects tools, researches complex areas of accounting, documents findings, assists engagement manager in gathering sufficient information.
• Project Management: Coordinates timing of planning, fieldwork and review with audit team and client, assists in budgeting, develops audit engagement memoranda and budgets, establishes responsibilities, monitors budget and reports to executives.
• Supervisory Responsibilities: Supervises a team of 1 to 5 audit professionals, provides performance feedback, coaches associates.
• Other Duties: As required.

• 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 audit or public accounting experience or equivalent, required.
• Prior basic supervisory experience, preferred.
• Eligible to sit for the CPA exams upon starting employment, required.
• CPA, preferred.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, preferred.
• Experience with assurance applications and research tools, preferred.
• Possess solid…