WithumSmith+Brown, PC

Senior Auditor

WithumSmith+Brown, PC • $80K — $95K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
  • Licensed CPA or working towards CPA certification
  • At least 2 years of public accounting experience
  • Experience leading multiple engagements and supervising staff
  • Excellent analytical, technical, and auditing skills
  • Exceptional client service and communication skills
  • Strong leadership, training, and mentoring skills

Responsibilities

  • Lead engagement teams in planning and executing audits to offer superior client service
  • Oversee daily audit operations including staffing, planning, and reporting
  • Supervise staff and maintain open communication with management
  • Collaborate on client issue resolutions and recommend solutions for legal and regulatory concerns
  • Review general ledger accounts to ensure accuracy of entries
  • Manage multiple concurrent engagements and meet tight client deadlines
  • Create and monitor engagement budgets to identify inefficiencies

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities including instructor roles
  • Collaboration with seasoned CPAs and industry leaders
  • Exposure to diverse client sizes and industries
  • Hybrid work environment with flexibility in location
  • Opportunity for innovative problem-solving and leadership development
Full Job Description
Job Description:

Withum's Auditing and Attest Engagement services are the cornerstone of our firm. Withum's audit and advisory team possess the expertise necessary to give stakeholders confidence in financial information. This team provides audit services, review and compilation services and other agreed upon audit procedures to a variety of client sizes and industries.

This Senior Auditor role will be based out of our Houston, TX office. You'll work alongside an integrated team of seasoned, well-known CPAs and industry leaders. In this position, you will take a lead role on all aspects of audit engagements, from planning to completion, to include supervision/mentoring of staff and building/maintaining relationships with clients.

How You'll Spend Your Time:

  • Leading the engagement team staff on the planning and execution of an audit, review or compilation engagement to effectively and efficiently provide world-class client service
  • Overseeing the day-to-day operations of the audit engagement from staffing, planning, risk assessment, fieldwork, financial reporting and the conclusion
  • Providing supervision and support to the engagement staff and promote open communication to the engagement manager and partner
  • Collaborating with managers and partners on client issue resolutions and making recommendations for any legal, regulatory and accounting issues that arise during an audit engagement
  • Reviewing all scheduled and non-scheduled general ledger accounts for accurate entries
  • Managing multiple engagements concurrently with various teams to efficiently meet client deadlines
  • Creating and tracking engagement budgets to review for inefficiencies that may arise during the audit
  • Conducting constructive discussions with team members on their evaluations and providing counsel accordingly
  • Serving in professional development programs as an instructor or discussion leader


The Kinds of People We Want to Talk to Have Many of The Following:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting
  • Licensed CPA, or working towards CPA certification
  • At least 2 years of public accounting experience, with experience leading multiple engagements and supervising staff
  • Excellent analytical, technical, and auditing skills including familiarity with US GAAP due to the complexity of the engagements in this sector
  • Exceptional client service and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain outstanding client relationships
  • Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing projects in a rapidly growing, fast-paced, interactive, results-based team environment
  • Strong leadership, training, and mentoring skills, coupled with excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills to represent the Firm well to client's management
  • Excellent analytical, organizational, project management skills, strong attention to detail, and proven innovative problem-solving skill
  • Ability to travel as needed


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About WithumSmith+Brown, PC

WithumSmith+Brown, PC is a public accounting and consulting firm that provides a range of services to businesses and individuals. The company's services include accounting, auditing, tax planning and preparation, business consulting, and technology consulting. WithumSmith+Brown, PC serves clients in a variety of industries, including healthcare, real estate, manufacturing, and financial services. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey.
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