Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Our Client, one of their area’s leading tax & accounting firms, is seeking to add an experienced Senior Accountant/Auditor to their dedicated team. Must have CPA license or equivalent, recent CPA firm exposure and experience working with Municipalities and NFPs.

Job Description

Responsibilities of the work you’ll be doing include but are not limited to:

• 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. Recognize items that may not be in agreement
• 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
• Payroll analytics with payroll, benefits, pension, and post-employment benefits
• Reconcile payroll to government reporting forms
• 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

• Additional activities including but not limited to:
• 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
• Some tax experience is a plus

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 client
• 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

Benefits

If you feel you have the necessary qualifications to perform this job, please forward a current copy of your resume and state your salary requirements.

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