Assurance Experienced Senior

Job Description

The Assurance Experienced Senior coordinates the day‑to‑day in‑charge duties of planning, fieldwork, and wrap‑up, preparing financial statements with disclosures, applying relevant GAAP, and documenting, validating, testing, and assessing control systems. The role also serves as the client contact for basic questions and may be involved in reviews and agreed‑upon procedure engagements.

• Apply knowledge and understanding of how various factors affect effectiveness or mitigate risks of specific policies and procedures.
• Act as auditor in charge, responsible to the engagement manager for conducting audit work, ensuring fieldwork is executed on schedule, in line with firm policies and budget.
• Apply knowledge of transactional flow and key transactional cycles to complete audit work.
• Document, validate, and assess the effectiveness of internal control systems.
• Determine and communicate improvements to client internal controls and accounting procedures.
• Supervise audit staff, review work papers and conclusions, and explain any shortcomings.

• Apply knowledge of governing principles to client transactions, document and communicate understanding and application.
• Understand and effectively communicate financial statement disclosure requirements to clients.
• Identify and apply new pronouncements to client situations.
• Discuss alternative GAAP with Manager, Senior Manager, and engagement partner as necessary.
• Identify complex accounting issues and bring them to the attention of superiors for resolution.

• Apply knowledge of SEC regulations and PCAOB guidelines, documenting and communicating their application.
• Review clients’ SEC filings, ensuring accuracy, completeness, and proper testing in work papers.
• Prepare required communications to the Client and Audit Committee.
• Plan and execute Section 404 internal control audit, including understanding the control environment, designing test plans, evaluating deficiencies, and assessing the overall financial reporting control environment.

• Apply knowledge and professional standards, documenting and communicating understanding and application on engagement.
• Formulate and communicate the audit plan.
• Apply GAAS to complex issues and consult others as appropriate.
• Apply audit skepticism, determining when to modify testing intensity.
• Use BDO audit manuals as appropriate.
• Document deviations from BDO policy with approval.
• Suggest improvements to client internal controls and prepare draft communications required by professional standards.

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

• Use methodology to seek or maintain information from authoritative sources and draw conclusions on target issues.
• Apply knowledge of internal and external research tools and select methodology for routine research requests.
• Research complex accounting areas, form independent opinions, and document impact on client and engagement.
• Organize complex findings in usable format using information from Accounting Research Manager, BDO Assurance Manual, Yahoo Finance, etc.
• Assist engagement manager with gathering sufficient information about the business and accounting system for audit strategy.

• Coordinate timing of planning, fieldwork, and review with audit team and client; assist executives in developing audit engagement budget and resource identification.
• Develop draft Audit Engagement Planning Memorandum, audit programs, and budgets.
• Establish responsibilities of individual audit staff with engagement manager.
• Monitor and report engagement budget to actuals, advising executives of possible overruns.

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

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Statistics, required.
• Bachelor’s degree in other focus area and CPA certification, required.
• Master…