Senior Audit Associate
Position is located in New Canaan, CT
Why take a Senior Audit Associate role with this well respected and growing organization?
- Well respected, growing and stable organization.
- High visibility with diverse work and incredible exposure
- Family-oriented, team-oriented company culture
What the Senior Audit Associate will do
Essential Functions:
- Performing increasingly complex audits including, but not limited to lease testing, payroll testing, cash disbursement testing, auditing accounts payable, and performing searches for unrecorded liabilities, financial statement tie outs.
- Perform research to obtain sufficient knowledge as to the client's compliance with laws, standards, regulations and ordinances
- Prepare work papers and schedules that are informative, indexed, cross-referenced and can easily be understood and explained
- Perform document audit tests and procedures
- Correspond and follow up with clients regularly through engagement
- Develop understanding of financial reporting requirements
- Alert Senior in a timely fashion of any issues, constraints, challenges, and/or scheduling conflicts that may arise in completing the assigned task(s)
- Manage daily client workflow and multiple client projects at any given time
- Complete assignments within timeline and budget
- Manage simple individual clients
- Resolve audit issues by obtaining evidence and making inquiries of clients
- Participate in planning and scheduling client engagements
- Keep 'client team' apprised of any client contact to avoid duplicate requests
- Seek opportunities to be chargeable
- Seek opportunities to assist with additional projects to increase technical ability
Other Functions: - Prepare routine correspondence to client for approval and signature of a partner
- Work with staff on various tasks on an ad-hoc basis
- Assist Associate I with developing understanding of clients
- Travel roughly 30%. Geographic area primarily limited to Tri-State area
What the company needs in a Senior Audit Associate:
- Bachelor's degree in accounting or Master's degree in accounting or taxation or related field
- 2-3 year's audit experience required 1 year experience as Associate I with above average performance.
- Proficiency in use of computers, including use of Microsoft Excel
- Understanding of and sensitivity to confidential information
- Ability to meet time constraints and client deadlines
Perks of the Senior Audit Associate role:
Competitive Salary: Negotiable
Exceptional alternative to the larger CPA firms
Great benefits, flexible summer work hours and an exciting work environment
Fast growing company offering tremendous opportunities for development and advancement to ambitious accounting professionals.