Assurance Senior Job Description
Assurance Senior Duties & Responsibilities
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Assurance Senior Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Assurance Senior
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Education for Assurance Senior
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Employers hiring for the assurance senior job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Graduate, Accountancy, Business, Education, Engineering, MBA, Computer Science, General Business
Skills for Assurance Senior
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Assurance Senior Job Description
- Understanding client needs, identifying root causes of problems, and implementing pragmatic solutions
- Determine technical and business impact of identified security and control issues and provide remediation guidance
- Capable of effectively managing small teams of professionals, and delegating work assignments, as needed
- Provide insightful feedback on financial statements and prepare other client deliverables such as board communications, deficiency letters, management letters
- Understand and assist in the execution of growth strategies (research calls, pipeline mgmt., COPs)
- Manage the engagement (job), project management, billing, ensures QC (technical) standards
- Develops engagement team (prepares seniors to the next level)
- Coordinate various planning phases of engagements and ensure work is on schedule
- Generate budgets
- Maintain profitable realization rates
- 150 hours required by the Virginia Board of Accountancy to acquire a CPA license
- Displays the ability to make sound decisions under pressure
- At least one year of previous experience in a public accounting environment
- Licensed CPA, or in the process of obtaining the CPA
- BS/BA degree in Accounting, Finance or related field
- 2+ years’ experience in public accounting in a variety of industries including Technology or Life Sciences
Assurance Senior Job Description
- Monitor actual time incurred and analyze actual time versus budgeted time
- Ensure engagement manager and partner is updated timely on all aspects of the engagement
- Communicate effectively with all levels intern – partner engagement details with clients
- Recognize extended services opportunities
- Participate on Level Training for junior staff
- Proactively and effectively participate in performance management processes
- Practice development (recommended)
- Regularly guides and participates in both financial and operational/integrated audits, collaborating with other CAS team members (including co-sourced team members and off-shore staff)
- Planning and scoping projects, conducting opening/closing/status meetings, executing work programs, conducting interviews and testing, documenting work papers, observations, and recommendations
- Interacts with team members at all levels of the businesses, functions, and IT organization, including communicating observations and business insights to audit clients
- Minimum four years of experience in public accounting, auditing, audit management, budget, business plan, business strategy, preferably with big Audit Firms
- CPA and/or Masters Degree are a plus
- Some experience working with high net-worth clients and preparing complex tax returns preferred
- Preferred experience in public accounting and or a professional services firm
- Current CPA or eligibility to sit for the CPA exam desired
- Participate in requirements gathering session and perform validations on requirements integrity
Assurance Senior Job Description
- Coach and develop Junior staff and provide them with performance feedback and career guidance
- Lead client audit engagements, including planning, executing, directing, and completing financial statement audits
- Schedule, delegate, review the work of staff and meet client deliverables
- Work with key client’s to gather information, resolve problems, and make recommendations for business and process improvements
- Define and deliver technical interpretations of the Laboratory’s performance issues and develop new approaches to resolve them assuring the success and image of the Laboratory
- Conduct innovative studies by developing analysis methods and using statistical tools to characterize, measure, and trend metric performance
- Analyze performance data and metrics evaluating tangible and intangible factors to deliver information suitable for executive management action
- Serve as an expert point of contact for development of institutional and senior management metrics
- Work with responsible owners to ensure development of corrective actions for underperforming metrics and communicate results to senior management
- Train support staff on basic data retrieval
- Work closely with the customer teams on providing UAT support
- Plan and execute performance and ORT tests prior to GM releases
- Work with development, operations and Infra teams in addressing issues identified during non-functional testing
- Quantitatively measure and report testing progress
- Participate and moderate defect triage discussions
- Certification authority for any artifacts released into production / market
Assurance Senior Job Description
- Develop staff by taking an active role in the Firm's learning and development activities
- Prepare detailed audit reporting findings
- Collect and analyze data to detect deficient controls, accounting errors and irregularities
- Develop an understanding of firm's service lines and actively seek / encourage team members to contribute ideas and identify opportunities to apply the firm's services
- Expertise - Work with industry and standards bodies to provide technical expertise on cloud technology
- Solutions – Scope and lead on-site engagements with partners and customers
- Delivery - Engagements include short on-site projects leading to architecture or compliance roadmaps, architecture guidance, gap assessments, Engagements will include assessments and reporting on various aspects of a customer's security and compliance posture
- Insights - Collaborate with AWS engineering, support and business teams to convey partner and customer feedback as input to AWS technology roadmaps
- Preparation of the Project Quality Plan for AFY in accordance with project requirements and CONTRACTOR’s policy
- Coordinates the activities to comply with the project procedures, plans and with applicable project requirements for the AFY, and liaise with the QC,NDT, certification personnel and COMPANY to ensure quality requirements are being met and any concerns addressed
- Experienced in test automation
- Experience testing in both iOS and Android OS is a plus
- Background in scrum development is a plus
- At least 7-year experience in software QA
- Bachelor’s degree or MBA preferred in business-related discipline such as business administration, finance, accounting, economics, information systems, or internal audit
- Current Certification as a CIA (Certified Internal Auditor) or CPA required
Assurance Senior Job Description
- Interact with key client management to gather information
- Resolve problems and make recommendations for business and process improvements
- Plan and supervise assigned engagements
- Supervise and train staff assigned to engagements
- Handle the day-to-day planning of client engagements
- Perform and have a strong knowledge of all audit functions
- Seasonal opportunity January-April
- Serves as a subject matter expert for questions and guidance, expertise with FAR, CAS and DCAA requirements
- Assists the supported groups in complying with Government rules and regulations, Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Cost Accounting Standards (CAS), and Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
- Interprets and implements CAS, contract requirements, and other guidance such as DCAA, Federal Travel Regulations, and other government directives
- Engaging and co-ordinating BAU and external vendors to complete activities
- Provide regular status of Assurance, including key findings, in written and verbal forms to key Program stakeholders
- Prepare Board and other senior governance forum papers on Assurance outcomes
- Previous experience auditing technology companies and related organizations
- Experience working with dealerships preferred
- Licensed professional or in the process of obtaining one of the following including, but not limited to Certified Information Systems Auditor® (CISA®), Certified Information Systems Security Professionals® (CISSP®)