Audit Senior

Saltmarsh is currently seeking a strong Senior Auditor who sees themselves as a leader and wants to join a firm that fosters both personal and professional development and supports the drive for advancement. Our ideal candidate demonstrates a passion for excellence by taking pride in a quality work product, delivering legendary service to our clients while investing in relationships with their Saltmarsh family and clients alike.

As an Audit Senior you are 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.

Responsibilities

• Identifies and communicates suggested improvements to client internal controls and accounting procedures in an effort to reduces risk within the client organization
• Drafts complex sets of financial statements with disclosures and communicates financial statement disclosure requirements to clients
• Researching complex areas of accounting, forming an initial opinion on the correct treatment independently and considering and documenting the impact on the client and audit engagement
• Sets the tone for teamwork by supporting others in their work and delivering on commitments made to the team and clients

• Bachelor’s in accounting or equivalent required
• Master’s degree in accountancy preferred
• CPA license preferred
• 2+ years of hands-on audit experience with a large local, regional or national public accounting firm preferred
• Solid understanding and experience planning and coordinating the stages to perform an audit of a basic public and/or private company
• Takes initiative to expand general and industry specific business advisory skills and applies these to client situations
• Ability to manage and consistently complete planned engagements or projects
• Assumes responsibility and accountability of work of those supervised
• Promotes cooperation within and across client service and project teams
• Great project management, analytical, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Experience using CCH Engagement and Knowledge Coach research tools or equivalent required
• Microsoft Office Products, including Windows, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

Benefits

Saltmarsh, Cleaveland & Gund offers a rich benefits package. Some of the highlights include major medical, dental & vision insurance, generous PTO + firm paid holidays, sabbatical program, employer paid life insurance and long-term disability, firm paid CPE, 401k and profit-sharing plan.