Associate/Sr. Associate- US Audit

Job Title: Senior- US Audit

Location: Gurgaon / Hyderabad

Mode of Work: WFO/Hybrid/Remote

Experience: 2-5 years

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 businesscritical information or processes. We work with Audit firms in USA.

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.

Industry: Candidate must possess prior experience in United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Audit. OR US Commercial / Manufacturing Audit.

Job Summary:

The role of an Audit Senior 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 is growing, and we need an experienced, motivated, and dedicated Audit & Assurance- Senior with a background of strong

public accounting & audit experience working under External Audits of US GAAP or IFRS 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 Audit Senior role is defined for you to be working with our member firms & clients in onshore. You shallbe 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 businesspractices are in place with client satisfaction.

A successful candidate should:

• Possess technical knowledge sufficient to supervise lower-level associates and lead engagements,

including coordinating workflow & tasks with client; resolve experience to advanced 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 seeking and

offering on the job coaching and audit engagement experiences.

• Execution of complex parts 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 skepticism 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).
• Participate in client engagements during a transaction (e.g., initial public offering (IPO), business

combination or debt offering.

• Contribute ideas/opinions to the audit teams.
• Develop an understanding of AKM service offerings.
• Prepare draft financial statements under US GAAP, IFRS and audit complex areas such as debt,

derivatives and/or unusual transactions.

• 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 US GAAP or IFRS and any other common audit

techniques.

To qualify, candidates must have:

• A bachelors degree with minimum of 3 years of related work experience in a similar audit practice firm.

Experience of working with Big 4 or Big 10 will be an advantage.

• An immediate joiner will be preferred.
• A degree in accounting, finance, or related field will be preferred. OR a graduate degree with

approximately 35 years of related work experience in fields of stat audits under US GAAP, IFRS.

• Experience working in US HUD Audit is mandatory.
• 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 supervising, planning, execution, and reporting on audits of financial statements prepared in accordance with US GAAP and US GAAS, IFRS.
• Excellent project management skills.
• Advanced written and verbal communications skills.
• Dedicated team player and reports effectively to leadership.
• Integrity within a professional work environment.

Salary:

As per industry standards.

Why AKM?

AKM Global is a premier professional services firm, with specialization in tax, consulting and outsourcing services. We advise our clients on a wide range of matters from M&A, India entry strategy, transaction advisory, valuation, transfer pricing, tax litigation among many others. We are the partners of choice for many global corporations. We are a young and dynamic, mid-sized firm passionate about serving our clients. With around 500 people, we service some of the top companies from over 30 countries. We enjoy excellent reputation in the market especially in the tax and transfer pricing area where we have been ranked by ITR for last 9 years.

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