Senior Assurance Associate

Trout CPA, a full-service certified public accounting firm, is seeking a Senior Associate in its Assurance department. This individual will participate in and lead staff on assurance engagements. They will have full responsibility as the in-charge accountant for engagements of varying size and complexity to include planning and coordinating the various phases of the field work, directing and reviewing the work of associates.

Major responsibilities and duties include:

• Lead client engagements, which include planning, executing, directing and completing financial statements
• Supervise, train and mentor employees and interns on assurance processes
• Research and analyze financial statement and assurance related issues
• Acquire working knowledge of client’s business & industry
• Proactively interact with key client’s management to gather information, resolve problems, and make recommendations for business and process improvements

The successful candidate will possess the following basic qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or similar field
• Three (3) to five (5) years of strong attestation experience
• Excellent project management, analytical, interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
• Strong leadership, training and mentoring skills
• Highly motivated self-starter with ability to multi-task and complete assignments within time constraints and deadlines
• Able to work independently on assigned tasks as well as accept direction on given assignments
• Dedicated to superior client service