PKF Texas is looking for a Contract Compliance Services Senior Associate with experience in mergers and acquisitions and contract compliance. This role provides the opportunity to collaborate with high-impact vendors, gain exposure to complex strategic audits, and advance into leadership within a dynamic accounting environment.
As a Contract Compliance Services Senior Associate, you'll work closely with our audit professionals, tackling challenging audit engagements while benefiting from a diverse public accounting experience. At PKF Texas, we are committed to fostering career growth, development, and advancement for our team members.
If you're ready to elevate your career and take on exciting challenges in public accounting, we'd love to hear from you.
Responsibilities:
- Lead third-party engagements to audit compliance of licensees, vendors and suppliers
- Plan and prepare tests on third-party data for completeness and accuracy
- Analyze complex license agreements and identify potential issues for further analysis
- Contribute to the completion of quantitative and qualitative analysis on a variety of client and third-party contract-related data
- Evaluate client provided data, recognize complex technical issues, and use strategic decision-making skills to assist PKF of Texas management in solving problems
- Appropriately manage engagement risk and ensure quality control procedures are being executed
- Ensure top quality client service and communicate with clients on a consistent basis to maintain a smooth working relationship
- Maintain active communication with the engagement team and clients to manage expectations, deadlines, and deliverables
- Demonstrate knowledge of all technical aspects of the job, including related knowledge of necessary systems, processes and procedures
- Follow regulations and professional ethics of state bodies appropriate to discipline, including AICPA
- Be conscious of and work to achieve personal and departmental goals as determined by the Audit Practice Leader
Requirements:
- Minimum requirement is a Bachelor's degree in Accounting with 2-5 years of experience in audit, internal audit and/or forensic accounting
- At a minimum, candidates must be CPA exam eligible and pursuing a certification in the accounting industry
- Experience with analytical software such as IDEA, DataSnipper and/or PowerBI
- High understanding of data analysis techniques
- Must maintain required CPE credits annually
- Ability to effectively use Microsoft Office, especially Excel
- Ability to organize work and projects, multi-task, prioritize and meet deadlines
- Ability to complete work in an efficient and accurate manner
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to apply understanding to carry out and to give instructions in written, oral, or diagram form
- Ability to travel to client sites as needed
- Public accounting or other professional services experience is preferred