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Assurance Experienced Manager

Boos & Associates A Professional Corporation

Long Beach, CA

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JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Accounting, Administrative Skills, Attorney, Auditing, Billing, Budgeting, Business Development, Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Coaching, Communication Skills, Consulting, Control Systems, Credit and Collections, Customer Retention/Renewal, Diversity, Documentation, Economics, Emerging Technology, Finance, Financial Analysis, Financial Audit, Financial Control, Financial Reporting, Financial Statements, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS), Geography, Identify Issues, Licensing, Marketing, Medical Conditions, Microsoft Office, People Management, Presentation/Verbal Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Professional Services, Profit & Loss, Public Accounting, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), Regulations, Research Skills, Risk Management, SEC Filings, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Service Delivery, Staff Training, Statistical Sampling, Statistics, Tax Accounting, Technical Writing, Testing, Time Management, Training/Teaching, Writing Skills
LOCATION
Long Beach, CA
POSTED
5 days ago
Boos & Associates is recognized for the 8th consecutive year as one of the Fastest Growing Companies in the Central San Joaquin Valley.

We are seeking an experienced Assurance Manager to be at the center of our business needs in our Long Beach, CA office.

If you're ready to serve clients, grow professionally, help expand our firm, and lead others, consider applying.

What you will do:

The Exp. Assurance Manager is responsible for supervising, directing, and reviewing the results through the delegation of tasks throughout the planning, field work and "wrap-up" stages of an Audit client engagement. In this role, the Assurance Manager is charged with marketing, networking, and business development within an area of expertise, as well as the responsibility of ensuring engagement profitability involving billings and collections. Traditionally responsibilities of the Assurance Manager will include advising the client on various economic and regulatory risks within their industry, resolving complex accounting issues, apply GAAP and GAAS consistently within complex situations, writing technical consultation memos on GAAP / GAAS issues, and documenting, validating, testing, and assessing various financial reporting control systems.

Control Environment:
  • Applies knowledge and understanding of the collective effect of various factors on establishing or enhancing effectiveness, or mitigating the risks, of specific policies and procedures
  • Applies a broad understanding of objectives and components of the overall control environment and organization, and supervisory controls
  • Validates and assesses effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting
  • Identifies and communicates to management and audit committee suggestions to improve client internal controls and accounting procedures
  • Identify and delegates functions of the audit to the auditor in charge as deemed appropriate
  • Supervise the work of audit team and review workpapers and conclusions preferably onsite during audit field work
  • Provide on-the-job-training to the engagement staff during audit field work
GAAP:
  • Applies knowledge and understanding of governing principles; applying these principles to client transactions; and documenting and communicating an understanding and application of these principles
  • Identifies and consults with clients on the impact of new accounting pronouncements
  • Monitors and communicates important professional, industry pronouncements
  • Presents and discusses alternative generally accepted accounting principles and arguments for/against such alternatives
  • Drafts complex financial statements and related footnote disclosures and effectively communicates these to client
  • Identifies complex accounting issues and forms and documents resolution, seeking counsel of BDO technical experts as needed
GAAS:
  • Applies knowledge and understanding of professional standards; application of the principles contained in professional standards; and the ability to document and communicate an understanding and application of professional standards on an engagement
  • Applies a thorough knowledge of professional standards/practices, including GAAS and PCAOB in performing and supervising work
  • Provides guidance to others and affirms conclusions made by others
  • Communicates matters required to be reported to the Audit Committee/Board and those charged with governance
  • Applies the use of efficiency tools such as statistical sampling, CAATS, etc.
Methodology:
  • Applies knowledge and application of BDO standards that guide effective and efficient delivery of quality services and products
  • Conducts detailed review to assure audit is completed in accordance with assurance manual standards
  • Prepares or reviews required communications to management and audit committees, ensuring timeliness and completeness
  • Recommends appropriate outcomes to critical issues
  • Initiates and prepares client acceptance/retention procedures where appropriate
  • Plans the audit process and oversees the execution of procedures with quality, efficiency, and completeness despite pressures of deadlines.
  • Executes proper BDO methodology including but not limited to proper archiving procedures
  • Considers Sarbanes-Oxley rules in understanding and executing service plans for combined 404 and financial statement audits for public clients
Research:
  • Applies methodology used to seek or maintain information from authoritative sources and to draw conclusions regarding a target issue based on that information
  • Defines methodology to conduct research projects and completes in a timely manner
  • Applies comprehensive knowledge of all appropriate research tools and draws conclusions based upon appropriate research
  • Prepares memo supporting research/conclusions and consults with others if appropriate
  • Presents issues to RTD or concurring reviewer effectively and accurately
Other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities:
  • Responsible for supervision of Associates and Senior Associates on all projects
  • Review work prepared by Associates and Senior Associates and provide review comments
  • Act as a Career Advisor to Associates and Senior Associates
  • Schedule and manage workload of Associates and Senior Associates
  • Provide verbal and written performance feedback to Associates and Senior Associates
  • Teach/coach Seniors and Associates to provide on the job learning
What you bring to the role:
  • Bachelor's degree, required; major in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Statistics, preferred
  • Master's degree in Accountancy, preferred
  • Six (6) or more years of prior relevant audit experience and/or public accounting, private industry accounting or consulting/professional services experience, required
  • Prior significant supervisory experience, required
  • Industry expertise in one or more assurance specialty, preferred
License/Certifications:
  • Active licensed US CPA, recognized active International Equivalent or unique qualification as defined by BDO's Assurance Licensing Policy, required
  • If active international equivalent or unique qualifications, required to obtain an active US CPA license within approved timeframe as defined by firm licensing requirement guidelines
Software:
  • Proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite, preferred
  • Experience with assurance applications and research tools, preferred
Other Knowledge, Skills Abilities
  • Sound GAAP and GAAS knowledge
  • Familiarity with SEC reporting rules
  • Possess proven solid verbal and written communication skills
  • Possess excellent people development and delegation skills, including training/instruction and engagement scheduling and budgeting
  • Possess executive presence - need to be able to be primary contact for the client, prepare and present presentations to clients and potential clients
  • Possess client development/relationship-building skills
  • Possess solid decision-making skills
  • Ability to resolve complex accounting issues
  • Ability to be responsible for business development and marketing
  • Ability to be responsible for engagement profitability including billings and collections
Compensation Information: Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate's qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

More About Boos & Associates, a Professional Corporation is a Certified Public Accountant and Consulting firm established in February 2004. Prior to founding the firm our Managing Director was a Tax Director with a Big 4 accounting firm with over 30 years public accounting experience. We currently have a staff of approximately 117 and anticipate significant expansion opportunities in the near and long term. Our greatest strength is our people. We foster and support innovative, strategic ideas that can transform developments in accounting, tax, and consulting into practical solutions for our clients. Our Fresno office is a first-class facility located in the Fig Garden Financial Center. The firm is paperless and uses the latest in technology to assist our associates in performing in a more efficient and effective manner. The firm provides above market performance-based compensation and provides competitive employer paid employee benefits and a generous personal time off policy. We continually invest in our people by providing extensive training and career advisor programs.

We recognize our unique opportunity to embrace the cultural and ethnic opportunity our clients and people have to offer. We are committed to optimizing this opportunity to hire outstanding individuals of diverse backgrounds, and to offer them a dynamic, challenging environment to develop their skills as trusted advisors to our clients. Our commitment to diversity encompasses all people within our firm, professionals, and administrative support alike, including people of different races, religions, cultural backgrounds, national origins, disabilities or medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and ages.

We are an independent member of the BDO Alliance USA.

As an independent member of BDO Alliance USA, our shared Core Purpose is Helping People Thrive Every Day. Our Core Values reflect how we manage our work, our relationships and ourselves. As an employee of the firm . click apply for full job details

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