Job Description: An audit supervisor leads or is the senior field personnel for audits, reviews and compilations for clients in various industries, including not-for-profit, construction, real estate, government contracting and financial services. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Planning, directing and reviewing all phases of an engagement for all types of engagements
- Having the ability to work for multiple clients simultaneously
- Ensuring delivery of quality client service and maintain profitable client relationships
- Developing, supervising and mentoring team members
- Conducting research and perform other related tasks
- Developing relationships with engagement-related client personnel who are responsible for accounting matters.
- Maintaining contact with client personnel responsible for the engagement matters throughout the year
- Possessing a deep knowledge of the client and the client’s business.
- Directly interacting with executive level client personnel and owners
- Identifying planning & consulting opportunities
- Being able to tackle more complex accounting and/ or tax issues
- Being cognizant of time budgets, but does not allow time budgets to sacrifice the quality of the audit procedures
Qualified candidates will be a CPA with several years of progressive CPA firm experience and will:
- Possess a broad knowledge of GAAP and GAAS and a general tax knowledge
- Have an understanding of a broad range of accounting issues including those involving higher levels of judgment such as: priority for income taxes, revenue recognition, subsequent events, contingencies and industry specific procedures
- Be knowledgeable of business trends
- Have the ability to review and provide feedback on work prepared by all staff in a professional manner
- Be able to establish a rapport and good communication with clientele
- Demonstrate the ability to gather, organize and summarize information efficiently and effectively
- Have the capacity to adhere to budgets and time deadlines
- Be proficient in MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and the Internet
- Motivate, develop and direct people as they work
- Demonstrate excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Apply principles of logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions
- Demonstrate strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Have the ability to train, orient and mentor staff
