Audit Senior Associate - Public Sector

Crowe•New York, NY

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Crowe is seeking Audit Senior Associates with experience in the Public Sector industry vertical to join their growing team. This role offers opportunities for leadership, deep industry insight, and relationship growth, with potential for a partner career path or other growth opportunities. The position involves leading client engagements from start to finish, including financial statement preparation, staffing, scheduling, budgeting, and administrative functions. It also includes supervising, training, and mentoring staff, maintaining client relationships, collaborating with the audit team to resolve issues, and researching/analyzing financial statements using electronic databases and audit software. The role requires engaging with client management to gather information, solve problems, and recommend improvements.

Requirements

2+ years of recent and relevant public accounting external audit experience.
A background with experience in external audit working with Higher education and non profit 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.
Bachelor's degree required.
Meeting the education requirement for CPA certification in your aligned home office state. (150 eligible credit hours)
Ability to work additional hours as needed and travel to various client sites.

Nice To Haves

Masters in Accounting, Finance, or related focus is preferred.
CPA strongly preferred, or pursuing CPA licensing in your state of residence

Responsibilities

Running client engagements from start to finish.
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.
Working 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.