Assurance Senior, Healthcare

Assurance Senior, Healthcare at BDO USA

BDO USA invites you to apply for the Assurance Senior, Healthcare role.

The Assurance Senior will coordinate day‑to‑day planning, fieldwork, and wrap‑up activities, including preparing financial statements with disclosures, applying relevant GAAP, documenting, validating, testing, and assessing various control systems. The role also serves as the client contact for basic questions and may be involved in reviews and agreed‑upon procedure engagements.

This position engages in all phases of assurance work, from planning through finalization, ensuring high quality financial reporting and compliance with professional standards.

• Apply knowledge of the collective effect of factors on policies and procedures to enhance effectiveness or mitigate risks.
• Apply knowledge of transactional flow and key transactional cycles to complete audit work.
• Document, validate, and assess the design and operating effectiveness of client internal control systems.
• Identify and communicate suggested improvements to client internal controls and accounting procedures to reduce risk.
• Supervise and review the work of audit staff.

• Communicate financial statement disclosure requirements to clients.
• Draft complex sets of financial statements with disclosures.
• Recognize and apply new pronouncements to client situations.
• Analyze and discuss alternative GAAP with managers and clients as needed.
• Identify complex accounting issues and bring them to the attention of superiors for resolution.
• Coaching less experienced team members on new areas.

• Read and review clients’ SEC filings, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
• Prepare required communications to the client and audit committee.
• Plan and execute Section 404 internal control audits, including obtaining an understanding of the control environment, designing test plans, evaluating deficiencies, and assessing overall financial reporting control environment.

• Formulate and communicate the audit plan.
• Apply GAAS to a variety of complex issues and consult others as appropriate.
• Employ audit skepticism and determine when to reduce or expand testing.
• Utilize BDO audit manuals as appropriate for the situation.
• Document deviations from BDO policy with approval.

• Coordinate day‑to‑day conduct of the audit plan, ensuring field work is executed and completed on time, within budget, and in accordance with firm policies.
• Apply BDO audit approach and methodologies, including tools and technology.
• Identify and propose outcomes for critical issues.

• Utilize internal and external research tools and select methodology for routine research requests.
• Research complex accounting areas, independently form an initial opinion, and document impact on the client and engagement.
• Document and organize findings in a usable format.
• Assist the engagement manager with gathering information about the business and information system.
• Develop the draft Audit Engagement Planning Memorandum, audit programs, and budgets.
• Collaborate with the engagement manager to assign responsibilities to audit staff.
• Other duties as required.

• Provide verbal and written performance feedback to audit associates.
• Supervise the work assignments of audit associates within the engagement team.

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, or Statistics, required.
• Alternatively, a bachelor’s degree in another focus area with CPA certification, required.
• Master’s degree in Accountancy, preferred.

• Solid understanding and experience planning and coordinating audit stages for basic public and/or private companies.
• Knowledge of internal accounting controls and professional standards (GAAP, GAAS, Sarbanes‑Oxley, etc.).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, adaptable to professionals at all levels.
• Ability to multi‑task independently and in a group environment.
• Superior analytical and diagnostic skills, breaking down complex issues and implementing appropriate resolutions.
• Ability to work in a demanding, deadline‑driven environment with a focus on detail…