Audit Senior Associate - Financial Services

Crowe•Fort Lauderdale, FL

20h•Hybrid

About The Position

At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career with flexibility to balance work and life. The firm, with over 80 years of history, focuses on delivering excellent service through innovation, including AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions across its audit, tax, and consulting groups. Crowe is experiencing tremendous growth and offers a partner career path or other growth opportunities, including the chance to transition between different industry verticals within Audit & Assurance. The Audit & Assurance team provides traditional attestation services, accounting, and consulting on applying accounting principles, demonstrating deep specialization and dedication to audit quality. As an Audit Senior Associate in the Financial Services practice, you will lead engagements, gain deep industry insight, and grow client relationships with access to extensive resources and team support.

Requirements

2+ years of recent and relevant public accounting external audit experience.
Experience working with Banking, Asset Management and Private Equity clients.
Meeting the education requirement for CPA certification in your aligned home office state.
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.
Ability to work additional hours as needed and travel to various client sites.

Nice To Haves

CPA license preferred

Responsibilities

Running client engagements from start to finish, including 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 assessing performance of staff for engagement reviews.
Maintaining an outstanding relationship with clients to increase customer satisfaction 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.