Senior Audit Associate - U.S. Accounting & Audit

Key Responsibilities - Coordinate the day-to-day execution of audit engagements from planning through completion. - Develop an understanding of each client’s operations, risks, accounting policies, internal controls, significant estimates, and reporting requirements. - Prepare and update audit planning documentation, risk assessments, materiality calculations, audit programs, and engagement timelines. - Identify significant accounts, disclosures, assertions, fraud risks, and areas requiring heightened audit attention. - Assign work to audit staff and provide clear instructions regarding the purpose, scope, timing, and documentation expectations for each audit area. - Review staff workpapers for accuracy, completeness, technical sufficiency, cross-referencing, consistency, and support for the audit conclusions. - Ensure that audit work addresses relevant assertions, including existence or occurrence, completeness, cutoff, classification, accuracy, valuation, and rights and obligations. - Perform and supervise testing over complex audit areas and subsequent events. - Evaluate whether audit conclusions are supported by the evidence inspected and whether contradictory or incomplete documentation requires additional procedures. - Monitor outstanding client requests and follow up professionally to obtain documentation needed to complete the engagement. - Prepare or review financial statements, footnotes, adjusting journal entries, passed-adjustment schedules, and required supplementary information. - Ensure that financial statements agree with the trial balance, audit leads, supporting schedules, and proposed adjustments. - Monitor engagement hours, budget-to-actual results, and completion deadlines and communicate variances promptly to the manager. - Maintain accurate engagement-status information and ensure the binder is substantially complete before manager or partner review. - Clear review comments promptly and ensure that responses are reflected directly in the related workpapers when documentation updates are required. - Communicate audit issues, proposed adjustments, control observations, and unresolved matters to the manager or partner. - Coach and support audit staff through timely guidance, constructive review notes, and technical explanations. - Assist with client meetings, planning discussions, audit-status calls, and closing or exit meetings. - Maintain compliance with professional standards, ethics and independence requirements, firm policies, and quality-control procedures. Requirements Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in accounting or a related field. - Relevant professional audit experience, preferably involving financial statement audits. - Working knowledge of U.S. GAAP and U.S. generally accepted auditing standards. - Experience preparing and reviewing audit workpapers and financial statements. - Ability to supervise, coach, and review the work of audit staff. - Strong understanding of audit documentation, risk assessment, materiality, substantive testing, and financial statement assertions. - Strong analytical, project-management, and problem-solving skills. - Excellent written and verbal English communication skills. - Ability to manage multiple engagements and meet competing deadlines. - Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, and electronic audit-workpaper systems. - CPA designation, CPA exam progress, or another relevant professional qualification is preferred but not required.