Audit Manager

Audit Manager

Irvine, CA; Pasadena, CA

At Lucas Horsfall, an Audit Manager oversees assurance engagements and engagement teams for clients across a variety of industries. The position carries overall responsibility for engagement execution, including planning and risk assessment, fieldwork, analysis of financial statements, and final documentation, while managing client relationships and developing staff in a close team environment. The Audit Manager serves as a primary client contact, manages engagement economics, researches complex audit and accounting issues, and ensures that all work is completed accurately and in accordance with US GAAP, GAAS, and firm standards. Reporting to the firm's partners, this role leads, trains, and develops audit staff and seniors. This role will be performed in a hybrid environment out of either our Pasadena, CA or Irvine, CA office location.

Key responsibilities include holding overall responsibility for planning, execution, and completion of multiple concurrent assurance engagements, managing engagement economics, serving as the primary client relationship owner, leading proposal development and business development activities, sourcing new business, providing final review of engagement files, supervising, developing, and evaluating audit staff and seniors, contributing to firm-wide technical training, publishing technical thought leadership content, applying and interpreting GAAP/GAAS independently, maintaining quality standards, maintaining professional and technical knowledge, and contributing to firm culture and growth initiatives.

Required qualifications include 5+ years of experience in an assurance department at a public accounting firm, an active CPA license, a BA/BS degree in accounting or business, experience working with privately held clients, demonstrated ability to manage multiple engagements and lead engagement teams, ability to travel to client locations, strategic thinker with strong organizational and project management skills, and excellent oral and written communication skills.

Preferred qualifications include a master's degree in accounting, industry experience in manufacturing, construction, service industry, and consolidations, applied working knowledge of U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and U.S. Generally Accepted Auditing Standards (GAAS), experience with Dynamic Audit Solutions (DAS), OnPoint PCR, OnPoint EBP, Suralink, DataSnipper, Trullion and AI platforms.

What we offer includes great benefits, a competitive salary, tuition reimbursement for advanced education, flexible PTO, excellent voluntary insurance options, 401(k) matching, discretionary bonus, commitment to professional development, and meaningful work that makes a difference in our clients' lives.