Audit Manager

Rea•Dublin, OH

3h•Onsite

About The Position

Rea is a growing Top 100 business advisory & accounting firm with over 400 professionals and locations throughout Ohio. The firm emphasizes a 'People First' culture, focusing on employee well-being and professional development, and respects work-life balance. They offer competitive compensation and a robust benefits plan. The Audit Manager role is an outstanding opportunity to contribute to The Rea Advantage strategic plan and offers a path to partner potential. The position involves working and traveling within the Dublin, Ohio area. The Audit Manager is responsible for supervising, directing, and reviewing audit client engagements from planning through wrap-up, delegating tasks, and ensuring engagement profitability through billings and collections. This role also includes marketing, networking, and business development within an area of expertise. Key responsibilities traditionally include advising clients on economic and regulatory risks, resolving complex accounting issues, applying GAAP and GAAS, writing technical consultation memos, and documenting, validating, testing, and assessing financial reporting control systems.

Requirements

Bachelor’s in accounting or equivalent required
Five (5) or more years prior work experience in public accounting required
Prior significant supervisory experience
Licensed CPA

Nice To Haves

MBA/master’s degree in accountancy optional

Responsibilities

Supervising, directing and reviewing the results through the delegation of tasks throughout the planning, field work and “wrap-up” stages of an Audit client engagement.
Marketing, networking and business development within an area of expertise.
Ensuring engagement profitability involving billings and collections.
Advising the client on various economic and regulatory risks within their industry.
Resolving complex accounting issues.
Apply GAAP and GAAS consistently within complex situations.
Writing technical consultation memos on GAAP / GAAS issues.
Documenting, validating, testing and assessing various financial reporting control systems.
Applies knowledge and understanding of the collective effect of various factors on establishing or enhancing effectiveness, or mitigating the risks, of specific policies and procedures.
Applies a broad understanding of objectives and components of the overall control environment and organization, and supervisory controls.
Validates and assesses effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting.
Identifies and communicates to management and audit committee suggestions to improve client internal controls and accounting procedures.
Identify and delegates functions of the audit to the auditor in charge as deemed appropriate.
Supervise the work of audit team and review workpapers and conclusions preferably onsite during audit field work.
Provide on-the-job-training to the engagement staff during audit field work.
Applies knowledge and understanding of governing principles; applying these principles to client transactions; and documenting and communicating an understanding and application of these principles.
Identifies and consults with clients on the impact of new accounting pronouncements.
Monitors and communicates important professional, industry pronouncements.
Presents and discusses alternative generally accepted accounting principles and arguments for/against such alternatives.
Drafts complex financial statements and related footnote disclosures and effectively communicates these to client.
Identifies complex accounting issues and forms and documents resolution, seeking counsel of Rea technical experts as needed.
Applies knowledge and understanding of professional standards; application of the principles contained in professional standards; and the ability to document and communicate an understanding and application of professional standards on an engagement.
Applies a thorough knowledge of professional standards/practices, including GAAS and PCAOB (if applicable) in performing and supervising work.
Provides guidance to others and affirms conclusions made by others.
Communicates matters required to be reported to the Audit Committee/Board and those charged with governance.
Applies the use of efficiency tools such as statistical sampling, CAATS, etc.
Applies knowledge and application of audit standards that guide effective and efficient delivery of quality services and products.
Conducts detailed review to assure audit is completed in accordance with assurance manual standards.
Prepares or reviews required communications to management and audit committees, ensuring timeliness and completeness.
Recommends appropriate outcomes to critical issues.
Initiates and prepares client acceptance/retention procedures where appropriate.
Plans the audit process and oversees the execution of procedures with quality, efficiency, and completeness despite pressures of deadlines.
Executes proper RSM methodology including but not limited to proper archiving procedures.
Applies methodology used to seek or maintain information from authoritative sources and to draw conclusions regarding a target issue based on that information.
Defines methodology to conduct research projects and completes in a timely manner.
Applies comprehensive knowledge of all appropriate research tools and draws conclusions based upon appropriate research.
Prepares memo supporting research/conclusions and consults with others if appropriate.
Presents issues to PIC or concurring reviewer effectively and accurately.
May be required to organize and conduct effective internal CPE training sessions in area of specialization, involving Firm specialists.
Plans and reviews the audit process and the procedures to be performed to include budgeting and staffing.
Monitoring engagement process and actual time incurred vs. budget with assistance of Senior.
Timely billing including management of identified out-of-scope activity and communication to client.
Timely collection of A/R.
Manages client relationships/expectations in accordance with the project.
Provides advice to clients in a timely manner.
Responsible for supervision of Associates, Senior Associates and Supervisors on all projects.
Review work prepared by Associates, Senior Associates and Supervisors and provide review comments.
Act as a Career Advisor to Associates, Senior Associates and Supervisors.
Schedule and manage workload of Associates, Senior Associates and Supervisors.
Provide verbal and written performance feedback to Associates, Senior Associates and Supervisors.
Teach/coach Supervisors, Seniors and Associates to provide on the job learning.
Other duties as required.