- Professional
- Optionales Büro in New York
SENIOR ASSOCIATE, NEW YORK, NY
Responsibilities:
• Provide excellent timely client service, deliver high quality work, and foster client relationships. Assist in design and implementation of the internal control framework;
• Identifying risks and corresponding key controls surrounding internal controls over financial reporting;
• Collaborate with process owners to create process narratives, risk and control matrices and flowcharts, and ensure documentation is kept up to-date for scoping, testing, and remediation activities;
• Lead process walkthrough inquiries with management, develop probing questions, and identify relevant control attributes;
• Evaluate, synthesize, organize and interpret data and information to conclude on design and operating effectiveness of key controls;
• Identify control deficiencies and develop value add solutions to that are actionable by leveraging your knowledge, prior experiences, and leading practices;
• Assist with Active Project Manager with project management activities including status tracking, reporting, and oversight of off-shore delivery team;
• Demonstrate clear and concise writing and verbal skills to communicate complex issues in simple terms to clients and team members;
• Active effort in improving technical and project management skills by leveraging on the job feedback, performance evaluations, mentoring and firm-sponsored formal training programs including monthly CPE and Subject Matter Expert (SME) training;
• Be a trusted advisor and intermediary between our clients and their auditors; responding timely to client needs and acting as a key contact with clients;
• Balance competing priorities with minimal client disruptions, managing time effectively to maintain project progress.
Qualifications: THIS POSITION REQUIRES A BACHELOR’S DEGREE (OR FOREIGN EQUIVALENT) IN ACCOUNTING, ECONOMICS, BUSINESS MANAGEMENT, FINANCE OR CLOSELY RELATED FIELD PLUS 4 YEARS OF WORK EXPERIENCE IN PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM WITH EXTERNAL AUDIT, ADVISORY, OR INTERNAL AUDIT SERVICES.
Special Requirements:
EXPERTISE/ KNOWLEDGE OF:
Knowledge on Sarbanes-Oxley Act provisions and methodologies for achieving compliance
Experience with evaluating and testing the design and operating effectiveness within both a 404(a) and 404(b) SOX environment, including identifying risks and controls that mitigate the risk, identifying the key controls versus non-key controls, identifying control attributes for key controls, creating testing attributes for key controls, testing key controls and remediation testing for exceptions and deficiencies.
Understands all core business processes including, but not limited to, Financial Close, Accounts Payable, Inventory, Revenue, including risks and related controls and be able to create process flowcharts from scratch explaining the business processes and mapping the controls where applicable.
Experience in external audit, advisory, or internal audit services project management, including but not limited to preparation of controls request list, evaluating sufficiency of support, follow up with business process and control owners, escalating issues to appropriate stakeholders.
MUST POSSESS EXPERTISE/ KNOWLEDGE SUFFICIENT TO ADEQUATELY PERFORM THE DUTIES OF THE JOB BEING OFFERED. EXPERTISE/ KNOWLEDGE MAY BE GAINED THROUGH EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE OR EDUCATION. SUCH EXPERTISE/ KNOWLEDGE CANNOT BE "QUANTIFIED" BY "TIME."
*MAY WFH UP TO 3 TIMES PER WEEK*
SALARY: $121,722 to $141,000 per year
CNM, LLP is an equal opportunity employer.
