We are seeking a Senior Associate to join our high-performing Internal Controls and SOX Advisory team in California. We offer a remote work environment that will allow you to continue working with the flexibility that you have grown accustomed to over the past few years while also continuing to provide onsite service to our fantastic clients.
Senior Associates collaborate with project team members to successfully deliver internal control advisory projects, ranging from SOX readiness to first-year implementations and ongoing compliance.
Requierement:
- At least 2.5 years of experience at one of the “Big Four,” with no more than two years since the end date of the last experience at these companies.
Responsibilities:
- Provide excellent, timely client service, deliver high-quality work, and foster client relationships.
- Assist in the design and implementation of the internal control framework, identifying risks and corresponding key controls surrounding internal controls over financial reporting.
- Collaborate with process owners to create process narratives, risk and control matrices, and flowcharts and ensure documentation is kept up-to-date for scoping testing and remediation activities.
- Lead process walkthrough inquiries with management, develop probing questions and identify relevant control attributes.
- Evaluate, synthesize, organize, and interpret data and information to conclude on the design and operating effectiveness of key controls.
- Identify control deficiencies and develop value add solutions that are actionable by leveraging your knowledge, prior experiences, and leading practices.
- Assist Active Project Manager with project management activities, including status tracking, reporting, and oversight of the offshore delivery team.
- Demonstrate clear and concise writing and verbal skills to communicate complex issues to clients and team members in simple terms.
- Active effort in improving technical and project management skills by leveraging on-the-job feedback, performance evaluations, mentoring, and firm-sponsored formal training programs, including monthly CPE and Subject Matter Expert (SME) training.
- Be a trusted advisor and intermediary between our clients and their auditors, responding timely to client needs and acting as a key contact with clients.
- Balance competing priorities with minimal client disruptions, managing time effectively to maintain project progress.
Please note: all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law. We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws.