Senior Audit Associate - U.S. Accounting & Audit

<h2>Key Responsibilities</h2><ul>
<li>Coordinate the day-to-day execution of audit engagements from planning through completion.</li>
<li>Develop an understanding of each client’s operations, risks, accounting policies, internal controls, significant estimates, and reporting requirements.</li>
<li>Prepare and update audit planning documentation, risk assessments, materiality calculations, audit programs, and engagement timelines.</li>
<li>Identify significant accounts, disclosures, assertions, fraud risks, and areas requiring heightened audit attention.</li>
<li>Assign work to audit staff and provide clear instructions regarding the purpose, scope, timing, and documentation expectations for each audit area.</li>
<li>Review staff workpapers for accuracy, completeness, technical sufficiency, cross-referencing, consistency, and support for the audit conclusions.</li>
<li>Ensure that audit work addresses relevant assertions, including existence or occurrence, completeness, cutoff, classification, accuracy, valuation, and rights and obligations.</li>
<li>Perform and supervise testing over complex audit areas and subsequent events.</li>
<li>Evaluate whether audit conclusions are supported by the evidence inspected and whether contradictory or incomplete documentation requires additional procedures.</li>
<li>Monitor outstanding client requests and follow up professionally to obtain documentation needed to complete the engagement.</li>
<li>Prepare or review financial statements, footnotes, adjusting journal entries, passed-adjustment schedules, and required supplementary information.</li>
<li>Ensure that financial statements agree with the trial balance, audit leads, supporting schedules, and proposed adjustments.</li>
<li>Monitor engagement hours, budget-to-actual results, and completion deadlines and communicate variances promptly to the manager.</li>
<li>Maintain accurate engagement-status information and ensure the binder is substantially complete before manager or partner review.</li>
<li>Clear review comments promptly and ensure that responses are reflected directly in the related workpapers when documentation updates are required.</li>
<li>Communicate audit issues, proposed adjustments, control observations, and unresolved matters to the manager or partner.</li>
<li>Coach and support audit staff through timely guidance, constructive review notes, and technical explanations.</li>
<li>Assist with client meetings, planning discussions, audit-status calls, and closing or exit meetings.</li>
<li>Maintain compliance with professional standards, ethics and independence requirements, firm policies, and quality-control procedures.</li>
</ul><h2>Requirements</h2><h2>Qualifications</h2><ul>
<li>Bachelor’s degree in accounting or a related field.</li>
<li>Relevant professional audit experience, preferably involving financial statement audits.</li>
<li>Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and U.S. generally accepted auditing standards.</li>
<li>Experience preparing and reviewing audit workpapers and financial statements.</li>
<li>Ability to supervise, coach, and review the work of audit staff.</li>
<li>Strong understanding of audit documentation, risk assessment, materiality, substantive testing, and financial statement assertions.</li>
<li>Strong analytical, project-management, and problem-solving skills.</li>
<li>Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.</li>
<li>Ability to manage multiple engagements and meet competing deadlines.</li>
<li>Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and electronic audit-workpaper systems.</li>
<li>CPA designation, CPA exam progress, or another relevant professional qualification is preferred but not required.</li>
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