AUDIT SENIOR MANAGER - ASSURANCE & ADVISORY
Well, established, highly profitable regional CPA firm seeks an Audit Senior Manager to add to their growing staff. We offer a very reasonable work life balance, excellent benefits including large potential bonuses and a 5% employer contribution to your 401K program, a choice of both SEC and closely held clients to work on across diverse industry groups, and fast track career progression.
The Senior Manager is the liaison between the Partner, the client, and the professional staff. Senior Managers are responsible for managing multiple auditing and accounting projects and client engagements simultaneously, and scheduling, staffing and coordinating engagement workflow.
Senior Managers develop and train staff and make associations to develop new business for the Firm. The Senior Manager has mastered the skills and requirements of the Manager role and has been identified as possessing the prerequisite for future growth in the Firm.
Senior Managers play a lead role in maintaining client relationships.
Responsibilities
- Manages and is responsible for all phases of an audit or review engagement on multiple engagements at one time
- Plans, schedules and staffs engagements using Firm policies and procedures.
- Serves as a subject matter expert in discipline or industry.
- Anticipates problem areas of engagement and questions that will arise.
- Keeps Partner informed of all the important developments on engagement; analyzes problems and recommends solutions.
- Ensures that financial statements, reviews, and letters of recommendation are prepared in accordance with professional and Firm standards.
- Communicates progress of engagements, problems and resolutions to client.
Supervisory Responsibilities :
- Responsible for the development, coaching and training of senior, semi-seniors and staff accountants.
- Must be familiar with the qualifications of all A&A staff members for the development and instruction of their training needs.
- Participates in reviews and evaluations of accounting professionals.
Qualifications
- Generally requires three (3) years' experience as a manager.
- Generally requires seven (7) to ten (10) years' experience in public accounting, demonstrating a proven progression in complexity, scope, and number of engagements managed.
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting, or master’s degree in accounting.
- Minimum of forty (40) hours of continuing professional education is required each year to maintain and develop technical and business skills.
- A current and valid CPA license is required.