Senior Auditor, Quality Management (SQMS) (United States)

Department : Johanson Group LLP (The Firm) Quality Management

Reports to : Manager - Quality Management

Location : Remote

Employment type : Full-time, exempt

Salary Range : $80,000 - $120,000

About the Role

We are hiring a Senior Auditor for our Quality Management function. The role will support

the Firm’s efforts to comply with, and continuously improve our Firm's System of Quality

Management (SOQM) under the AICPA's Statements on Quality Management Standards —

SQMS No. 1 (A Firm's System of Quality Management), SQMS No. 2 (Engagement Quality

Reviews), and SQMS No. 3, together with SAS No. 146, SSARS No. 26, and the related

attestation standards.

This is a high-visibility role with direct access to Firm leadership. It suits someone who

understands that quality management is a risk-based discipline, not a checklist exercise.

Key Responsibilities

Risk Assessment Process

• Assist the Manager – Quality Management in maintaining the Firm's quality objectives, including any additional objectives beyond those specified in SQMS No.
• Identify and work with the Manager – Quality Manager to assess quality risks, including changes in the nature and circumstances of the Firm and its engagements that give rise to new or modified risks.
• Assist with the identification, design and documentation of responses to assessed quality risks; track ownership and operating status of each response.

Monitoring, Remediation, and Annual Evaluation

• Assist with the execution of the Firm’s SOQM monitoring program: ongoing monitoring activities and periodic engagement inspections across the Firm's services.
• Coordinate the selection of engagements and engagement partners for inspection, and manage internal and external inspectors.
• Evaluate identified findings, determine whether deficiencies exist, and assess their severity and pervasiveness.
• Perform root cause analysis that goes past the symptom to the underlying condition.
• Develop, assign, and track remediation actions to closure, and evaluate whether remediation was effective.
• Assist the Manager – Quality Management with the assembly of evidence and analysis supporting the annual evaluation of the SOQM and the required conclusion, and the reporting package for the individual assigned ultimate responsibility.

Governance and Leadership

• Assist the Manager –Quality Management in preparing quality management reporting for Firm leadership.
• Help ensure Firm strategy, resource decisions, and performance evaluation and compensation processes reinforce quality rather than work against it.

Relevant Ethical Requirements and Independence

• Investigate and document potential independence breaches, evaluate significance, and coordinate resolution.
• Monitor compliance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and CO state board of accountancy, and special requirements as applicable.

Acceptance and Continuance

• Perform client acceptance procedures and research.
• Review higher-risk acceptance and continuance decisions and document the basis for conclusions, including client integrity, Firm competence and capacity, and fee and scope pressures.

Engagement Performance and Engagement Quality Reviews

• Under the supervision of the Manager-Quality Management, perform EQRs per Firm policy.
• Assist with the maintenance of the Firm's methodology, engagement templates, checklists, and technical guidance, and update them for new and amended standards.
• Administer the consultation and differences-of-opinion processes and ensure conclusions are documented and implemented.
• Monitor engagement documentation, archiving, and retention requirements.

Resources

• Assess human, technological, and intellectual resources against quality objectives, and flag capacity or competency gaps to leadership.
• Design and deliver quality management and technical training; track CPE compliance.
• Evaluate service providers and network or alliance resources the Firm relies on, and document the Firm's basis for that reliance.

Information and Communication

• Assist the Manager – Quality Management maintains the Firm's quality management policies, procedures and supporting documentation.
• Communicate quality expectations, findings, and changes to Manager – Quality management and Firm management as needed.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field.
• 3+ years of public accounting experience in audit and/or attestation, including 2 years at senior level.
• Working knowledge of AICPA professional standards, including SQMS Nos. 1, 2, and 3, SAS No. 146, the attestation standards, and the AICPA Code of Professional

Conduct

• Demonstrated experience with quality control or quality management, engagement inspection, peer review, or internal monitoring.
• Ability to reduce complex standards into practical, usable policies and to hold people to them without being adversarial.
• Strong written documentation skills.

Preferred

• Active CPA license.
• Experience in a Firm performing SOC 1 and SOC 2 examinations and familiarity with the Trust Services Criteria.
• Prior experience supporting the Quality Control function at a CPA Firm.
• Experience serving as, or supporting an engagement quality reviewer.
• Experience with quality management, GRC, or engagement management technology.

Competencies

Professional skepticism. Sound judgment under ambiguity. Comfort delivering unwelcome

findings to senior people. Project management across many concurrent workstreams.

Discretion with sensitive personnel and client matters.

Benefits

As a full-time employee, you will be eligible to participate in Johanson Group, LLP’s benefit

programs, subject to eligibility requirements and plan terms. Current benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability coverage
• Retirement plan participation
• Flexible Paid Time Off (Flex PTO)
• Paid holidays and other benefits as outlined in firm policies