Assurance Senior, Healthcare

Overview

Assurance Senior, Healthcare at BDO USA. The Assurance Senior will coordinate day-to-day "in-charge" duties of planning, fieldwork and wrap-up, including preparing financial statements with disclosures, applying GAAP where necessary, and documenting, validating, testing, and assessing various control systems. The role may involve acting as the client contact for basic questions and information and participate in reviews and agreed-upon procedure engagements.

• Control Environment: Apply knowledge of factors affecting the effectiveness and risk of policies and procedures; document, validate and assess the design and operating effectiveness of the client s internal control system; identify and communicate improvements to client internal controls and accounting procedures; supervise and review the work of audit staff.
• GAAP: Apply governing GAAP principles to client transactions; communicate disclosure requirements; draft complex financial statements with disclosures; recognize and apply new pronouncements; discuss alternative GAAP with management and engagement team; identify complex accounting issues and escalate as needed; coach less experienced team members.
• SEC and PCAOB: Understand and apply SEC regulations and PCAOB guidelines; review client SEC filings; prepare client and Audit Committee communications; plan and execute Section 404 internal control audits, including understanding the control environment, designing test plans, evaluating deficiencies, and assessing the overall financial reporting control environment.
• GAAS and Professional Standards: Formulate and communicate audit plans; apply GAAS to complex issues; exercise audit skepticism; utilize firm audit manuals; document deviations from policy with approval.
• Methodology: Apply BDO standards to deliver quality services; coordinate audit plan execution, fieldwork, timeliness, policy adherence and budget; apply BDO audit approach and methodologies; identify and propose outcomes to critical issues.
• Research: Conduct information gathering from authoritative sources; perform complex accounting research, form initial opinions, and document impacts on the client and audit engagement; organize findings for audit strategy; assist engagement manager with information gathering; develop Audit Engagement Planning Memorandum, audit programs and budgets; define responsibilities of staff; perform other duties as required.
• Supervisory Responsibilities: Provide feedback to Audit Associates and supervise work assignments within the engagement team.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Statistics, required OR Bachelor’s degree in another focus area with CPA certification, required
• Master’s degree in Accountancy, preferred
• Two (2) or more years of prior relevant audit experience and/or public accounting, private industry accounting or consulting/professional services experience, required
• Prior basic supervisory experience, preferred
• Eligible to sit for the CPA exams upon starting employment, required and actively pursuing completion of the exams; CPA, preferred
• Proficiency with the Microsoft Office Suite, preferred; experience with assurance applications and research tools, preferred
• Solid understanding and experience planning and coordinating the stages to perform an audit of a basic public and/or private company
• Knowledge of internal accounting controls and professional standards and regulations (GAAP, GAAS, SOX, etc.)
• Strong verbal and written communication, with ability to adapt messaging to different levels within client organizations and the firm
• Ability to multi-task, work independently and in a team; strong analytical and diagnostic skills
• Ability to work in a demanding, deadline-driven environment with attention to detail and accuracy
• Solid project management skills

• Two or more years of relevant audit experience; prior supervisory experience preferred

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Statistics, required; CPA candidate/CPA preferred

• Eligible to sit for the CPA exams upon starting employment, required and actively…