Audit & Assurance: Senior Associate/Senior

Job Description

Audit & Assurance: Senior Associate/Senior - US GAAP, UK GAAP, IFRS, FRS 102

Our Audit & Assurance team is one of the growing teams in our office. As part of our team, you will provide our clients’ your valuable inputs by using your skills and experience to give companies, investors, and regulators confidence in the validity of financial statements and business-critical information or processes. We work with Audit firms in USA, UK, Canada, and Australia.

Join our Statutory Audit team and you will help our clients meet their reporting requirements by providing an objective and independent examination of their financial statements, timely and constructive discussion with management on accounting and reporting matters, and a robust and clear perspective to audit committees. You will experience ongoing professional development through diverse experiences, different trainings, and coaching.

Job Summary: The role of an Audit: Senior Associate is to perform audit procedures in complex areas, while building technical competence and function as the primary day to day contact for the audit client. AKM Global Corp Advisors is growing, and we need an experienced, motivated, and dedicated Audit & Assurance - Senior Associate with a background of strong public accounting & audit experience working under External Audits of US GAAP or IFRS or UK GAAP clients to join the team. A career in our audit & assurance sector will provide you with the opportunities to develop advanced technical auditing skills in a variety of industries & clients.

This Senior Associate role is defined for you to be working with our member firms & clients in onshore. You shall be responsible for reporting to, working and coordinating & timely communicating with engagement teams by developing and exhibiting a command of audit techniques and methods, all while ensuring best business practices are in place with client satisfaction.

A successful Audit & Assurance: Senior Associate should:

• Possess technical knowledge sufficient to work on an individual level in audit engagements, including coordinating workflow & tasks with clients/engagement teams; resolve intermediate to experienced audit, accounting, and client service issues; updating work papers and other products produced with utmost quality for engagement teams; and keep engagement progressing as planned and budgeted.
• Possess significant knowledge on audit methodology and techniques in performing and assisting in external, internal, or statutory audits.
• Take ownership for delivery of high-quality audit work. Develop self and others through engagement experiences.
• Execution of fairly larger areas of an audit engagement from assisting in Planning to Risk Assessment to execution of substantive testing and working on test of details of significant accounts.
• Demonstrate professional scepticism and compliance with our risk management and independence policies.
• Start to build relationships across our client offerings and seek opportunities to work together.
• Build strong credibility through displaying good insight and business acumen, applying technical competence, and engaging in relevant discussions with clients and engagement teams.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with audit clients and engagement team.
• Direct field work, inform engagement leaders of audit engagement status timely.
• Complete audit procedures and documentation for higher risk areas to broaden your technical skills (e.g., revenue, expenses, PPE, financial instruments, and income taxes).
• Contribute ideas/opinions to the audit teams.
• Develop an understanding of AKM service offerings.
• Prepare draft financial statements under US GAAP, IFRS, UK GAAP (FRS 102).
• Ensure all work papers are complete, consistent, and contain procedures performed, evidence obtained, and conclusions reached with appropriate documentations.
• Identify key issues facing clients and discuss possible solutions to increase quality and efficiency.
• Develop a command of GAAP, GAAS, GAGAS** or UK GAAP or IFRS and any other common audit techniques.

To qualify, candidates must have:

• A bachelor’s degree with minimum of 1-5 years of related work experience in a similar audit practice firm. Experience of working with Big 4 or Big 10 will be an advantage.
• A degree in accounting, finance, or related field will be preferred. OR a graduate degree with approximately 1-5 years of related work experience in fields of statutory audits under US GAAP, UK GAAP, IFRS.
• Experience in Accounts preparation under FRS 102 and relevant applicable standards will be an advantage.
• Experience working on 401k - Employee Benefit Plans and Pension plans will be an advantage.
• A qualified U.S. Certified Public Accounting (CPA) license or sufficient coursework to achieve US CPA certification in the US state of primary work location.
• Experience in planning, execution and reporting on audits of financial statements prepared in accordance with US GAAP and US GAAS, IFRS UK GAAP.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Advanced written and verbal communications skills.
• Dedicated team player and reports effectively to leadership.
• Integrity within a professional work environment.