Audit Senior

Description

What are you looking for? A Great Place to Build Your Career? At SEK, you will find just that, especially if you are…

Collaborative & Team-Oriented: Works well with supervisors and staff to ensure effective audit engagements.

Engaged Learner: Continuously seeks to stay current with evolving audit standards and industry trends while actively pursuing personal and professional development to enhance expertise.

Resilient: Handles challenges and setbacks with professionalism. 

Effective Communicator: Actively seeks feedback to improve performance and communicates clearly with team members and clients, ensuring tasks and expectations are understood.

Resourceful Problem-Solver: Tackles complex audit challenges with critical thinking.

Our audit professionals work in a variety of industries including governmental, nonprofit, manufacturing, construction, financial institutions, and employee benefit plans. As an Audit Senior, you will play a key role in assisting with financial statement audits, internal controls testing, and compliance procedures while gaining valuable experience working with a variety of clients. You will collaborate as part of a team across offices to ensure accuracy and regulatory compliance. This role requires travel to client sites for fieldwork. 

A Day in the Life of an Audit Senior.... 

• Perform Audit Procedures: Execute audit procedures in accordance with firm policies and professional standards, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Prepare Workpapers & Reports: Document audit findings, prepare workpapers, and contribute to financial statement preparation.
• Assist in Engagement Planning: Work with supervisors and managers to plan audit engagements, including risk assessment and audit strategy.
• Identify & Resolve Issues: Analyze financial data, identify discrepancies or risks, and work with engagement teams to resolve issues.
• Communicate with Clients:  Maintain direct communication with client personnel to obtain necessary information and clarify audit questions.
• Mentor Junior Staff: Provide guidance and support to audit associates, reviewing work and offering feedback for development.
• Stay Current on Standards: Continuously develop technical knowledge by keeping up with changes in auditing and accounting standards.
• Time & Task Management: Manage multiple assignments efficiently, meeting deadlines while maintaining high-quality work.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and/or Finance ( 150  credits highly desired).
• Active CPA license or desire to attain CPA license.
• 2-4 years’ experience auditing with a public accounting firm.
• Excellent analytical, technical, and auditing skills, including proficiency in US GAAP and GAAS.
• Ability to reason intelligently and use sound judgment.
• Professional demeanor towards duties and responsibilities, particularly with regard to independence, professional ethics, and the exercise of professional judgment.
• Leadership experience and desire to participate in leadership opportunities.
• Demonstrated problem-solving, organizational, interpersonal, project management, and communication skills.

 

Why should you join SEK?

Our firm offers team members an excellent career track along with a professional and growth-oriented work environment. We offer flexible schedules, study time on the clock for the CPA exam, and reduced hours in the summer in order to support employee needs to balance their personal and work life. In addition, we strive to provide and maintain a positive work environment where each employee feels encouraged to contribute to our processes, decisions, planning, and culture.

 SEK CPAs & Advisors Benefits & Perks:

• 3+ weeks of PTO
• Flexible schedules (including half-day Fridays in the summer)
• Teleworking
• Dress for your day policy (jeans included)
• Culture of growth and opportunity
• 401k profit sharing plan
• CPA Incentive Program (including study-time, exam material reimbursement, exam fee/application covered by the firm, CPA achievement bonus)
• Tuition Reimbursement Program
• Individual Medical Insurance covered by SEK

Check out SEK Team Member Benefits by going to: https://www.sek.com/careers 
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