Senior Accountant, CPA firm Audit

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A CPA fim committed to using accounting knowledge to help clients develop their organizations to their fullest potential is seeking a Senior Accountant (Audit) to join their team. The firm is equally committed to growing their team members to their fullest potential. As a Senior Auditor, you’ll report to a Manager and benefit from their guidance and support.  
 
Job Type:

*Must have CPA firm experience
Full time, W2
Location: REMOTE within the US
Compensation: $65,000- $85,000 DOE
 
Qualifications:
 

• Minimum 3 years’ public firm experience
• CPA license or equivalent
• Strong audit, accounting and analytical skills
• Proven experience completing audits, reviews and compilations from start to finish
• Familiarity with financial software resources such as Thomson Reuters
• Experience with Workpaper CS or other audit software is ideal but training will be provided
• Familiar with grants, contributions, and restricted funds
• Work independently & as part of a team directly serving clients
• Self-starter with the desire and ability to increase responsibility and grow professionally
• Strong communications skills for both written and oral communications
• Ability to communicate accounting information clearly to client
• Experience working in a paperless and remote environment
• Use of ShareFile or other file exchange software such as DropBox
• Nonprofit experience preferred. Municipal experience a plus. Single audit experience a plus

Responsibilities of the work you’ll be doing include but are not limited to:

• Complete audits, reviews, and compilations from start to finish
• Review and assess risk
• Agree balances to bank reconciliations and investment statements
• Update fixed asset register for fixed asset additions and deletions and depreciation and accumulated depreciation for the current year
• Testing and reconciliation of receivables and payables
• Agree balances and schedules to original source documentation such as receipts, invoices, bills, or letters of support.   Recognize items that may not be in agreement
• Reconcile cash, investments, debt, revenues, and expenses to external bank, donor, or vendor confirmations
• Review grant and loan agreements and extract applicable information
• Update debt schedules
• Payroll analytics with payroll, benefits, pension, and post-employment benefits
• Reconcile payroll to government reporting forms
• Analytics of various balances and reconciliations as needed
• Prepare adjusting entries as needed
• Testing and analysis of other audit segments as needed

•  Prepare financial statements
• Adjust trial balance as needed based on workpapers
• Prepare grouping schedules
• Review and reconcile financial statement to make sure all statements are in balances and reconcile to each other and to the trial balance
• Update footnotes
• Prepare footnotes from examples and modify for client

•  Additional activities including but not limited to:
• Complete checklists and work programs
• Understanding of audit procedures and the workpapers that relate to support various procedures
• Link audit workpapers to trial balance
• Research application of audit principles
• Import and export information
• Review work of other staff and answer staff questions
• Keep manager informed of work progress and ask questions

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