Job Description
Responsibilities of the work you’ll be doing include but are not limited to:
- Complete audits, reviews, and compilations from start to finish
- Review and assess risk
- Agree balances to bank reconciliations and investment statements
- Update fixed asset register for fixed asset additions and deletions and depreciation and accumulated depreciation for the current year
- Testing and reconciliation of receivables and payables
- Agree balances and schedules to original source documentation such as receipts, invoices, bills, or letters of support. Recognize items that may not be in agreement
- Reconcile cash, investments, debt, revenues, and expenses to external bank, donor, or vendor confirmations
- Review grant and loan agreements and extract applicable information
- Update debt schedules
- Payroll analytics with payroll, benefits, pension, and post-employment benefits
- Reconcile payroll to government reporting forms
- Analytics of various balances and reconciliations as needed
- Prepare adjusting entries as needed
- Testing and analysis of other audit segments as needed
- Prepare financial statements
- Adjust trial balance as needed based on workpapers
- Prepare grouping schedules
- Review and reconcile financial statement to make sure all statements are in balances and reconcile to each other and to the trial balance
- Update footnotes
- Prepare footnotes from examples and modify for client
- Additional activities including but not limited to:
- Complete checklists and work programs
- Understanding of audit procedures and the workpapers that relate to support various procedures
- Link audit workpapers to trial balance
- Research application of audit principles
- Import and export information
- Review work of other staff and answer staff questions
- Keep manager informed of work progress and ask questions
- Some tax experience is a plus
Qualifications
- Minimum 3 years’ public firm experience
- CPA license or equivalent
- Strong audit, accounting and analytical skills
- Proven experience completing audits, reviews and compilations from start to finish
- Familiarity with financial software resources such as Thomson Reuters
- Experience with Workpaper CS or other audit software is ideal but training will be provided
- Familiar with grants, contributions, and restricted funds
- Work independently & as part of a team directly serving clients
- Self-starter with the desire and ability to increase responsibility and grow professionally
- Strong communications skills for both written and oral communications
- Ability to communicate accounting information clearly to client
- Experience working in a paperless and remote environment
- Use of ShareFile or other file exchange software such as DropBox
- Nonprofit experience preferred. Municipal experience a plus. Single audit experience a plus
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