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Assurance Senior/Supervisor 

Overall: 

Responsible for the overall attest engagements.  This position reports to the Assurance Manager. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as required to meet ongoing needs. 
 
Duties & Responsibilities: 

• Accountable for the management and completion of audits, reviews, compilations, and agreed-upon engagements. 
• Develop and implement auditing procedures and programs. 

• Supervise and conduct independent audits for for-profit and non-profit clients, 401(k) audits, and single audits in an electronic format. 
• Implement Standards updates to all the affected firm personnel to insure everyone is compliant with current standards  
• Maintain Quality Control Program and Peer Review Program 
• Provide supporting workpapers and assistance to tax department to enable them to efficiently prepare the related tax returns of attest engagement clients. 

Supervisory Responsibilities: 

Manage and train employees in the auditing and accounting department.  

Employees from the tax department may also be utilized in auditing procedures as necessary.   Being sensitive to the need for cooperation between departments and the time constraints other staff members may be experiencing is critical. 

Provide status updates to Assurance Manager/Director/Partner of all active engagements on a regular basis. 
 
Interpersonal Skills  

• Exhibits time management and organization skills.  
• Develops entrepreneurial approach to client service and good working relationships with client personnel.  

• Builds new and existing client relationships and demonstrates basic knowledge of clients’ businesses.  
• Develops means of communication to clients and persons responsible for maintaining relationship with clients.  
• Accepts volunteer positions in community organizations.  
• Continues to develop industry expertise.  
• Understands firm ethics and demonstrates them consistently.  

• Develops a broad general knowledge of economic, political, and business conditions. 
• Performs such other duties as may be assigned.  

Our Vision for this position  

We envision our Assurance Seniors & Supervisors to not only be a senior assurance technician who can complete an Accounting or Assurance engagement to the level of minimal review & rework by the Assurance manager/partners, but also someone who can also coordinate & manage assurance engagements (and other returns & engagements as needed in the absence of another Manager).  This unique person would need to be super organized and begin documenting our workflows, standardizing our work product and internal processes, bringing consensus among the staff accountants and championing a unified "P&R way" of doing things.  He/she would also be responsible for being the "go-to" expert on the various ASSURANCE apps & tools available to streamline our ASSURANCE offerings such as Confirmation.com, Workpaper CS, ProfitCents, CheckPoint Research, etc.  This person will not only be training the new staff on our "App Stack" but also identifying clients who could benefit from a more streamlined process (Apps), meeting with and selling those clients on the benefit, on-boarding those clients and then transitioning the ongoing maintenance of those clients to the accounting staff. The ultimate goal would be to become an ASSURANCE resource not only for the internal staff but for our clients as well. The conversion of manual client accounting processes into a standardized, possibly more automated, workflow either supervised or assisted by the firm.  Cross Selling/upselling, developing and supervising “CAAS” & “ASSURANCE” engagements under the Thomson Reuters Practice Forward model will be a big part of the job function. 

Education/Experience: 

• CPA license 
• 2+ years of financial statement audit experience at a public accounting firm.  Public accounting experience must be recent, at most 3 years removed. 

Requirements: 

• Experience working with privately-held clients is a plus.  
• Industry experience is strongly desired in these major areas 

• manufacturing 
• real estate 

• construction 
• franchisors  
• not-for-profit 

• "Single audit" and GAAS experience needed 
• 401k limited scope audit experience 

• Ability to manage multiple projects and effectively delegate 
• Proficiency needed in the following applications 

• QuickBooks  
• PPC Practice Aids  
• Workpapers CS or other electronic based audit software 

• Excel and Word