Audit Senior Associate - Financial Services

Crowe•Columbus, OH

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

Crowe is seeking talented professionals for full-time or seasonal work arrangement options for the Audit Senior Associate role, focusing on the Financial Services industry verticals including Banking, Private Equity, Asset Management, Insurance, & Fintech. As an Audit Senior Associate, you will have the opportunity to lead, gain deep industry insight, and grow relationships. The Audit & Assurance team provides traditional attestation services as well as accounting and consulting on applying accounting principles, demonstrating deep specialization through an understanding of market and business challenges clients face and a dedication to audit quality. This role offers a partner career path or growth opportunities, with the possibility to transition between different industry verticals within Audit & Assurance.

Requirements

2+ years of recent and relevant public accounting external audit experience.
Experience in external audit working with Banking, Private Equity, Asset Management, Insurance, & Fintech 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.
Ability to multi-task since planning, executing, and wrapping up various engagements may have to be performed concurrently.
Ability to perform research on technical matters prior to submitting for manager review.
Meeting the education requirement for CPA certification in your aligned home office state.
Ability to work additional hours as needed.
Ability to travel to various client sites.
Uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship.
Act ethically and with integrity at all times.

Nice To Haves

Having a CPA license in the aligned home office state.

Responsibilities

Running client engagements from start to finish, including financial statement preparation, internal staffing, project scheduling and budgeting, engagement planning, and administrative functions.
Supervising, training, and mentoring staff and interns on the audit process and assessing their performance for engagement reviews.
Maintaining outstanding client relationships to increase customer happiness and working with client management and staff at all levels to perform audit services.
Working with the 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.
Engaging with key client management to collect information, resolve audit-related problems, and make recommendations for business and process improvements.