Audit Senior Associate- Public Sector
About the position Crowe is growing tremendously. We are looking for future leaders, which means a partner career path or growth opportunities. At Crowe, there is the opportunity to transition between different industry verticals within Audit & Assurance that align with your professional goals. Are you up for the challenge? The Audit & Assurance team at Crowe provides traditional attestation services as well as accounting and consulting on applying accounting principles. Audit & Assurance professionals demonstrate deep specialization through an understanding of the market and business challenges their clients face and a dedication to audit quality. Though Crowe has various business units, Audit & Assurance is one of the largest practices. Learn more about our Audit & Assurance team! We’re looking for Audit Senior Associates with experience in the Public Sector. As a Audit Senior Associate, you will further learn to lead, gain deep industry insight, and grow relationships. With access to many resources and team support, this is what of your work includes: Responsibilities • Running client engagements from start to finish. This includes all aspects of financial statement preparation, internal staffing of engagements, project scheduling and budgeting, planning of the engagement, and related administrative functions. • Supervising, training, and mentoring staff and interns on audit process and assess performance of staff for engagement reviews. • Maintaining an outstanding relationship with clients to increase customer happiness and working with client management and staff at all levels to perform audit services. • Work with your audit team to identify and resolve client issues discovered during the audit process. • Researching and analyzing financial statements and audit issues using electronic databases, and employing audit software to review and compile financial information. • Engage with key client management to collect information, resolve audit-related problems, and make recommendations for business and process improvements. Requirements • 2+ years of recent and relevant public accounting external audit experience. • Your background should have experience working with Non Profit, Higher Education and Governmental clients. • Organization, social, technical, and accounting and auditing skills to work efficiently with clients and staff as well as build positive relationships. • Experience with engagement management, reviews, and staff supervision. • Being able to multi-task since planning, executing, and wrapping up various engagements may have to be performed concurrently. • Your ability to perform research on technical matters prior to submitting for manager review is important. • This position requires meeting the education requirement for CPA certification in your aligned home office state. • Ability to work additional hours as needed and travel to various client sites. Nice-to-haves • Having a CPA license in that state already is even better. Apply tot his job