The Assurance Experienced Senior will be responsible for coordinating the day-to-day duties of planning, fieldwork, and
Requirements
- 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.
- Applies knowledge of transactional flow and key transactional cycles to complete audit work
- Documents, validates, and assesses effectiveness of internal control system
- Determines and communicates improvements to client internal controls and accounting procedures
- Supervise the work of audit staff and review workpapers and conclusions and explaining any shortcomings to them
- Understand and effectively communicate financial statement disclosure requirements to clients
- Identifies and applies new pronouncements to client situations
- Identifies, analyzes, and discusses alternative generally accepted accounting principles for the client, when necessary, with the Manager, Senior Manager and engagement partner
- Identifies complex accounting issues and brings them to the attention of superiors for resolution
- SEC and PCAOB
- Reads and reviews clients’ SEC filings, ensuring accuracy and completeness, and also ensuring all financial information is supported in the workpapers and appropriately tested
- Prepares required communications to the Client and the Audit Committee
- Plans and executes Section 404 internal control audit including obtaining an understanding of the control environment, designing test plans, evaluating deficiencies, and assessing the overall financial reporting control environment.
- GAAS
- Formulates and communicates the audit plan
- Applies GAAS to a variety of complex issues and consults others as appropriate
- Applies of audit skepticism and determines when to reduce or expand testing
- Uses BDO audit manuals as appropriate for the situation
- Documents deviations from BDO policy with approval
- Look for opportunities to suggest improvement to company’s internal controls and prepare draft communication required by professional standards.
- Methodology
- Applies knowledge and application of BDO standards that guide effective and efficient delivery of quality services and products.
- Applies BDO audit approach and methodologies, including tools and technology, to execute the audit with quality, efficiency, and completeness despite pressures of deadlines
- Identifies and proposes outcomes to critical issues
- Research
- Applies methodology used to seek or maintain information from authoritative sources and to draw conclusions regarding a target issue based on that information.
- Applies knowledge of the use of internal and external research tools and selects methodology for routine research requests
- Researches more complex areas of accounting and forms an initial opinion on the correct treatment independently and considers and documents the impact on the client and audit engagement
- Documents and organizes complicated findings in a usable format, based on information obtained from Accounting Research Manager, BDO Assurance Manual, Yahoo Finance, etc.
- Assist the engagement manager with gathering sufficient appropriate information about the business and information system, including the accounting system, to form an adequate basis for the preparation of the audit strategy
- Project Management
- Coordinate timing of planning, fieldwork, and review with audit team and client and assist engagement executives in developing the audit engagement budget and identify appropriate resources.
- Develop the draft Audit Engagement Planning Memorandum, audit programs and budgets
- Establish with the engagement manager the responsibilities of individual audit staff for specific areas of audit work
- Monitor and report engagement budget to actual and advise engagement executives of possible overruns
- Supervisory Responsibilities
- Supervise a team of audit professionals ranging in size from 1 to 5
- Provide verbal and written performance feedback to associates
- Teach/coach associates to provide on the job learning
Benefits
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
- Generous Paid Time Off
- 401k Matching
- Relocation Assistance
