Audit Senior Associate - Insurance

Crowe LLP•West Hartford, CT

19h•Hybrid

About The Position

Crowe is experiencing significant growth and is seeking future leaders for its Audit & Assurance team, offering a partner career path and opportunities for advancement. The role involves transitioning between different industry verticals within Audit & Assurance to align with professional goals. This position specifically requires experience in the Insurance industry vertical. As an Audit Senior Associate, you will develop leadership skills, gain deep industry insight, and cultivate client relationships. With access to numerous resources and team support, your responsibilities will include managing client engagements from inception to completion, encompassing financial statement preparation, staffing, scheduling, budgeting, planning, and administrative tasks. You will also supervise, train, and mentor staff and interns, assess their performance, and maintain strong client relationships to enhance satisfaction. Collaboration with the audit team is key to identifying and resolving client issues, fostering creativity, and growing expertise. The role involves researching and analyzing financial statements and audit issues using electronic databases and audit software, as well as engaging with key client management to gather information, resolve problems, and recommend business improvements.

Requirements

2+ years of recent and relevant public accounting external audit experience.
A background with experience in external audit working with Insurance clients.
Organization, social, technical, and accounting and auditing skills to work efficiently with clients and staff as well as build positive relationships.
Experience with engagement management, reviews, and staff supervision.
Being able to multi-task since planning, executing, and wrapping up various engagements may have to be performed concurrently.

Nice To Haves

Masters in Accounting, Finance, or related focus is preferred.
CPA strongly preferred, or pursuing CPA licensing in your state of residence
Ability to work additional hours as needed and travel to various client sites.

Responsibilities

Running client engagements from start to finish. This includes all aspects of financial statement preparation, internal staffing of engagements, project scheduling and budgeting, planning of the engagement, and related administrative functions.
Supervising, training, and mentoring staff and interns on audit process and assess performance of staff for engagement reviews.
Maintaining an outstanding relationship with clients to increase customer happiness and working with client management and staff at all levels to perform audit services.
Work with your audit team to identify and resolve client issues discovered during the audit process.
Researching and analyzing financial statements and audit issues using electronic databases, and employing audit software to review and compile financial information.
Engage with key client management to collect information, resolve audit-related problems, and make recommendations for business and process improvements.