Job Description
Position: Senior Accountant/Auditor
We are seeking an experienced Senior Accountant/Auditor to join our dedicated team. If you have a CPA license or an equivalent certification, recent experience in a CPA firm, and a background in working with municipalities and nonprofit organizations, we would love to hear from you!
### Job Description
As a Senior Accountant/Auditor, your responsibilities will include:
- Conducting audits, reviews, and compilations from start to finish.
- Assessing risks and reviewing relevant balances.
- Reconciling balances to bank statements and investment reports.
- Updating the fixed asset register, including additions, deletions, depreciation, and accumulated depreciation for the current year.
- Performing testing and reconciliation of receivables and payables.
- Ensuring balances and schedules align with original source documentation such as receipts, invoices, and letters of support, while identifying discrepancies.
- Reconciling cash, investments, debt, revenues, and expenses to external confirmations from banks, donors, or vendors.
- Reviewing grant and loan agreements to extract pertinent information.
- Updating debt schedules as required.
- Conducting payroll analytics related to payroll, benefits, pensions, and post-employment benefits.
- Reconciling payroll with government reporting forms.
- Analyzing various balances and reconciliations as necessary.
- Preparing adjusting entries and testing/analysis of other audit segments as needed.
- Compiling financial statements and adjusting the trial balance based on workpapers.
- Preparing grouping schedules and ensuring all financial statements are balanced and reconcile with each other and the trial balance.
- Updating and preparing footnotes based on examples tailored for clients.
Additional activities will include:
- Completing checklists and work programs.
- Understanding audit procedures and the related workpapers.
- Linking audit workpapers to the trial balance.
- Researching the application of audit principles.
- Importing and exporting information as needed.
- Reviewing the work of other staff members and addressing their questions.
- Keeping the manager informed of work progress and seeking clarification when necessary.
- Some tax experience is a plus.
### Requirements
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in a public accounting firm.
- CPA license or equivalent certification.
- Strong auditing, accounting, and analytical skills.
- Proven experience in 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; training will be provided.
- Knowledge of grants, contributions, and restricted funds.
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team directly serving clients.
- Self-starter attitude with a desire to take on increased responsibilities and grow professionally.
- Strong communication skills for both written and oral interactions, with the ability to convey accounting information clearly to clients.
- Experience in a paperless and remote work environment.
- Familiarity with file exchange software such as ShareFile or Dropbox is preferred.
- Nonprofit experience is preferred; experience with municipalities and single audits is a plus.
### Benefits
If you believe you have the qualifications for this role, we encourage you to send us your current resume along with your salary requirements. We look forward to reviewing your application!
Employment Type: Full-Time
Salary: $ 40,000.00 140,000.00 Per Year
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