Boos & Associates is growing, we were recently named one of the Fastest Growing Accounting Firms and Businesses in the Fresno area by the Fresno Business Journal. That growth has led us to expand to different markets and we are in need of a highly skilled and experienced Senior Assurance Associate to join our Assurance team. This role is open to candidates located in Long Beach CA, Fresno CA and Las Vegas office.
If you are looking for an opportunity to help grow our firm, have an entrepreneur spirit, and enjoy leading and developing professional individuals this might be the role for you!
What you will do:
The Assurance Experienced Senior will be responsible for coordinating the day-to-day "in-charge" duties of planning, fieldwork, and "wrap-up" to include the preparing of financial statements with disclosures, applying most areas of GAAP as necessary and documenting, validating, testing, and assessing various control systems. This position is also responsible for acting as the client contact for basic questions and information and may be involved in reviews and agreed-upon procedure engagements.
Control Environment
- 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.
- As Auditor in charge is responsible to the engagement manager for the day-to-day conduct of the audit work and in particular for ensuring that the field work is executed and completed as planned, in accordance with timetable, with Firm’s policies and procedures and to budget
- 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
GAAP
- Applies knowledge and understanding of governing principles; applying these principles to client transactions; and documenting and communicating an understanding and application of these principles.
- 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
GAAS
- Applies knowledge and understanding of professional standards; application of the principles contained in professional standards; and the ability to document and communicate an understanding and application of professional standards on an engagement.
- 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
Other duties as required
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
What you bring to the role:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Statistics, required OR Bachelor’s degree in other focus area and CPA certification, required Master’s degree in Accountancy, preferred
Experience:
- Three (3) or more years of prior relevant audit experience and/or public accounting, private industry accounting or consulting/professional services experience, required
- Prior basic supervisory experience, preferred
License/Certifications:
- Eligible to sit for the CPA exams upon starting employment, required, and actively pursuing completion of the exams, required
- CPA, preferred
Software:
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, preferred
- Experience with assurance applications and research tools, preferred
Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Possess proven solid verbal and written communication skills
- Possess people development and delegation skills
- Possess executive presence - needs to be able to be primary contact for the client
- Ability to "in-charge" all stages of the audit, including planning, fieldwork, and "wrap-up"
- Ability to perform the completion of an audit of a complex company
- Ability to prepare and/or review financial statements with disclosures in accordance with GAAP requirements.
Compensation Information: Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.About Boos & Associates, a Professional Corporation is a Certified Public Accountant and Consulting firm established in February 2004. Prior to founding the firm our Managing Director was a Tax Director with a Big 4 accounting firm with over 30 years public accounting experience. We currently have a staff of approximately 117 and anticipate significant expansion opportunities in the near and long term. Our greatest strength is our people. We foster and support innovative, strategic ideas that can transform developments in accounting, tax, and consulting into practical solutions for our clients. Our Fresno office is a first-class facility located in the Fig Garden Financial Center. The firm is paperless and uses the latest in technology to assist our associates in performing in a more efficient and effective manner. The firm provides above market performance-based compensation and provides competitive employer paid employee benefits and a generous personal time off policy. We continually invest in our people by providing extensive training and career advisor programs.
We recognize our unique opportunity to embrace the cultural and ethnic opportunity our clients and people have to offer. We are committed to optimizing this opportunity to hire outstanding individuals of diverse backgrounds, and to offer them a dynamic, challenging environment to develop their skills as trusted advisors to our clients. Our commitment to diversity encompasses all people within our firm, professionals, and administrative support alike, including people of different races, religions, cultural backgrounds, national origins, disabilities or medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and ages.
We are an independent member of the BDO Alliance USA.
As an independent member of BDO Alliance USA, our shared Core Purpose is Helping People Thrive Every Day. Our Core Values reflect how we manage our work, our relationships and ourselves. As an employee of the firm, you will live true to our Core Values of people first, being exceptional every day in every way, embracing change, feeling empowered through knowledge, and choosing accountability. Our Core Values are the standards by which we conduct ourselves day in and day out, both internally and externally.
