Audit & Assurance Manager

Description

Audit and Assurance Manager

CCK provides challenging work, professional development, and generous compensation packages. CCK’s collaborative environment spans firmwide, where individuals work together to deliver value to the client by providing solutions within teams and across firm departments. Collaboration at CCK means a group of people coming together to provide a better solution. Within CCK, Audit & Assurance focuses on partnering with clients in every stage of their organization’s life cycle to add value and provide quality assurance services This is includes financial statement audits, reviews, and compilations, as well as internal audit, SOC examinations, fraud examinations, and more.

Job Description

The Audit & Assurance Manager is responsible for identifying strategic consulting opportunities, developing next generation talent, and cultivating existing and developing new client relationships. CCK appreciates individuals with an advisory mindset who enjoy working with entrepreneurial clients across a wide range of industries. The audit & assurance manager will achieve success through demonstrating an ability to leverage knowledge from one project or industry to the next regardless of obvious similarities, competency in training staff and seniors, communicating with clients and leadership on project status and complications, applying root cause analysis to solve problems, proposing solutions, and identifying opportunities to expand service offerings with the client.

Responsibilities

• Managing assurance engagements Including initiation of the project, updates, and coordinating review and timing through completion.
• Leading and developing Audit Staff and Seniors assigned to engagements.
• Working with Audit Staff, Seniors, and Partners to ensure timely completion of projects.
• Providing detail review for assurance projects
• Performing technical review including signing the report once approved by the quality management program.
• Researching accounting standards, writing conclusions, proposing solutions, and training the team.
• Maintaining an up to date understanding of the AICPA Audit standards and recommending changes to the firm’s system of quality management as needed.
• Identifying procedures based on auditing standards which includes challenging “normal” procedures applied by other firms.
• Coaching and mentoring Seniors and Staff to develop their technical competence and advance them in their career.
• Engaging with the team across a range of platforms including MS Teams and in person.
• Proposing billing on assurance projects in a manner that makes billing simple and easy for contacts.
• Providing updates to contacts as needed regarding the status of the engagement.
• Supervising assigned interns, staff, and seniors on a weekly basis and conducting the firm expected one on one meetings.
• Fostering and engaging and interactive team environment to promote retention and employee satisfaction.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Ability to adapt to a wide variety of projects and industries.
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written.
• Root cause analysis with corresponding corrective action recommendations
• Effective time management – working in a dynamic environment with changing priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to provide feedback to all team members – both positive and constructive – in a manner that promotes the expected behaviors of each role.
• Customer service focus, for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong Leadership and management skills.
• Ability to travel to client locations both locally and out of state as needed.
• Comfort with Microsoft Office products including, but not limited to, Excel, Word, and Teams
• Experience with Teammate Analytics, DataSnipper, Fieldguide, Autire, Strongbox, preferred.
  
  

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Current CPA License in any US State
• Experience (minimum 3 years) in public accounting, internal audit, or other field that demonstrates audit or examination knowledge is preferred Qualified to work in the US
• Experience with all levels of assurance products – compilations, reviews, and audits – preferred.
  
  

CCK Strategies, PLLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.