Job Summary:
The Experienced Senior Associate - Assurance Quality Management is responsible for project management, assessment and understanding of causes of audit quality events, testing the Firm's system of quality management, maintaining, and supporting audit quality tools, and assisting with managing responsive actions to enhance the Firm's system of quality management. The Experienced Senior Associate gathers and analyzes data to identify systemic trends and conditions, assists in planning audit quality improvements and assists in the development and implementation of audit quality indicators as a key member of the Assurance Audit Quality Management team.
Job Duties:
- Demonstrates an inquisitive mind to bring value-added insights to analyses and solutions
- Applies advanced technical skills to analyze and assimilate data (Excel, PowerBI, internal applications, etc.)
- Demonstrates strong project management skills, including managing projects timely to meet tight deadlines
- Assists in gathering and analyzing audit quality indicators
- Tests controls identified in the Firm's system of quality management, assists in deficiency analysis and preparation of annual certification report
- Assists with preparing various audit quality reporting to leadership and the practice
- Assists with maintaining various audit quality programs, including support to professionals, maintaining applications, and confirming completeness and accuracy of program data
- Assists with PCAOB firm level inspection activities, including data requests, meeting support
- Assists with preparing firm level remediation responses to the regulator
- Assists in performance of root cause analysis
- Applies relevant GAAP, GAAS, SEC, PCAOB and other applicable or emerging regulations and standards, and the BDO Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct with honesty and integrity
- Other duties as required
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or Economics, required
Experience:
- Three (3) or more years of relevant work experience, required
License/Certifications:
- CPA preferred
- Actively pursuing completion of CPA licensing, preferred
Software:
- Advanced Excel skills, required
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, PowerPoint, Sharepoint, PowerBI, and Outlook, preferred
- Experience with accounting research databases, preferred
Language:
Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Strong project management skills
- Superior written and verbal communications skills, including ability to work with offshore team members
- Advanced knowledge of GAAP and SEC reporting requirements
- Solid understanding and proficiency of accounting and auditing standards (PCAOB) and reporting requirements
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