Sikich

Supervisory Senior Auditor (Federal Audit)

Sikich$101K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree required; Accounting degree preferred.
  • CPA certification or candidacy is mandatory.
  • 4+ years of experience in accounting, auditing, or related fields.
  • Experience with financial statement audits is essential.
  • Previous management or leadership experience is required.
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills are necessary.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite.

Responsibilities

  • Supervise a team of auditing professionals.
  • Conduct audits to assess accuracy and internal controls.
  • Prepare audit work products, including findings and reports.
  • Review team members' work for quality and compliance.
  • Mentor team through task delegation and support.
  • Serve as the main client contact and lead meetings.
  • Manage assigned work areas according to established schedules.
  • Utilize technology to enhance audit efficiency.

Benefits

  • Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy effective from day one.
  • Comprehensive wellness program with rewards.
  • Flexible work arrangements available.
  • Health, dental, vision, and life insurance options.
  • Generous paid time off during holidays.
  • Robust parental bonding leave for birth or adoption.
  • 401(k) plan with employer contributions.
  • CPA bonus with dedicated paid exam and study days.
  • Tuition reimbursement for continued education.
  • Community volunteer program offering paid time off to volunteer.
Full Job Description
Description

Supervisory Senior Auditor (US - Alexandria, VA)

Position summary

Sikich is seeking a highly motivated and detail-oriented auditing professional with strong leadership and accounting skills. This role is contingent upon award of contract. This position requires an active Secret clearance or the ability to obtain this level of clearance.

What will you do in this role?
  • Provide first line supervision to a team of auditing professionals.
  • Conduct testing to determine accuracy and completeness of amounts reported and to conclude upon the operating effectiveness of internal controls
  • Prepare work products, including workpapers, findings, reports, and other written deliverables, in accordance with auditing standards and firm guidelines.
  • Review work products prepared by team.
  • Develop team through effectively delegating tasks and providing guidance.
  • Act as primary liaison to the client, including leading meetings.
  • Own assigned work areas.
  • Execute tasks for assigned work areas in accordance with an internally developed schedule that ensures the completion of tasks with sufficient time for secondary review and submission to client in accordance with contractual deadlines.
  • Leverage technology, including data analysis tools and AI, to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of audit procedures.
  • Meet expectations for attendance, punctuality, and company/client deadlines and abide by all company policies.
  • Actively participate in formal and informal training to continuously grow technical and non-technical competencies

What do you need to succeed in this role?
  • Bachelor's degree required. Accounting degree preferred.
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or CPA candidacy is required.
  • Minimum of 4 years of accounting, auditing, and/or related technical experience
  • Financial statement audit experience
  • Management/leadership experience
  • Excellent verbal and written communications skills
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel)
  • Ability to travel up to 25%
  • Minimum Active Secret clearance or ability to obtain and maintain a clearance.


In addition, specific skills/experience required are as follows:

  • Values driven - You embody and model absolute integrity and servant leadership and you have a bias for action and continuous innovation.
  • Uncompromising problem solver - You see opportunities in every business challenge and can develop, articulate and implement solutions.
  • Collaboration - You are a relationship builder across all levels of the organization and across all business units.
  • Instills trust - You do what you say, without ego, and you follow through on commitments consistently and credibly.
  • Impact & influence - You are relentlessly focused on making a difference and can gain support for ideas, proposals and solutions. You get others to act, with or without formal authority, to advance initiatives and objectives.


Sikich Total Rewards

Our team members enjoy expansive benefits ranging from competitive compensation and insurance options to wellness programs and a flexible time off policy, to name only a few. Sikich also takes pride in prioritizing team members' health, total wellbeing and time spent with family, friends and in the pursuit of personal goals, hobbies, and endeavors.

Some examples of our many benefits:

  • Sikich maintains a Flexible Time Off (FTO) Policy. We encourage every full-time employee, as your role permits, to utilize paid time off (personal time, mental/physical health care, vacation, sick leave, etc.). Waiting for time off to accrue is common at other companies. At Sikich, you do not have to wait for this benefit to kick in. FTO is activated on your first day with our organization.
  • Sikich will also recognize paid holidays during the year and strives to permit employees to have time off the last week of the calendar year when client and project work permits.
  • Sikich offers a comprehensive wellness program to engage, challenge and empower team members to take responsibility for their wellbeing. Activities can be tracked through our wellness provider to obtain gift cards and other rewards.


In compliance with this state's pay transparency laws, the midpoint of the salary range for this role is $101,000. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.

We also offer:
  • Flexible work arrangements
  • Health, dental, vision, life, and accident/death/disability insurance options
  • HSA employer contribution
  • Nine (9) paid holidays annually.
  • A robust paid Parental Bonding Leave program covering birth, adoption, and foster children.
  • 401(k) with employer contributions
  • CPA bonus with four (4) paid exam days & four (4) paid study days.
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Generous employee referral bonus program
  • Client referral bonus program
  • Pet insurance
  • FORCE - Sikich community volunteer program enabling each team member to use up to four hours of paid time annually to volunteer and make a difference in their local communities.


Want to learn more? Visit our Careers website or Glassdoor profile.

Sikich currently practices in an alternative practice structure in accordance with the AICPA Professional Code of Conduct and applicable law, regulations, and professional standards. Sikich CPA LLC is a licensed CPA firm that provides audit and attest services to its clients. Sikich LLC has a contractual arrangement with Sikich CPA LLC under which Sikich LLC provides Sikich CPA LLC with professional and support personnel and other services to support Sikich CPA LLC's performance of its professional services, and Sikich CPA LLC shares certain client information with Sikich LLC with respect to the provision of such services.

About Sikich

Sikich is a professional services firm that provides accounting, advisory, technology, and managed services to businesses and organizations across the United States. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Naperville, Illinois. Sikich has over 1,000 employees and serves clients in a variety of industries, including manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and not-for-profit. The firm has been recognized as one of the top 100 accounting firms in the United States by Accounting Today.
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