Senior Accountant / Auditor - CPA Firm - Remote (BB965350)

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Requirements:

• 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 clients.
• 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:

• 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.
• 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.
• Perform payroll analytics with payroll, benefits, pension, and post-employment benefits.
• Reconcile payroll to government reporting forms.
• Perform 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.
• 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.