Audit Senior Associate

Audit Senior Associate

A detail-oriented accounting professional with 13 years of public accounting audit experience is needed to perform audit procedures, evaluate internal controls, prepare report sections, and support audit engagements for a confidential firm. The position is open now for candidates ready to join a growing audit team. Based in a professional hybrid work environment with local travel in the Atlanta metro area, the firm is expanding its audit team and seeks someone who can deliver high-quality audit work and grow into supervising engagements. Office environment is flexible, collaborative, offering hybrid schedules, casual dress, and strong career-development support. Salary is competitive with bonus potential and comprehensive benefits.

We are seeking an Audit Associate to support audit engagements and contribute to high-quality assurance services. This role performs audit procedures, evaluates internal control systems, and assists in preparing sections of reports and communications. You will apply accounting and auditing principles to client situations while gaining insight into diverse client industries and systems.

Responsibilities include performing audit procedures supporting the auditor's report on client financial statements, assessing internal control systems and evaluating the reasonableness of recorded financial information, preparing assigned sections of audit reports, management letters, and related communications, applying accounting theory, audit standards, and firm procedures to real client situations, developing understanding of client systems, processes, and business operations to inform audit work, ensuring all work meets technical standards established by current AICPA and FASB guidance, completing assignments on time and in a format ready for review, handling more complex audit areas and reviewing the work of interns and entry-level staff, and beginning supervising small engagements as an "in-charge" as experience grows.

Requirements include a bachelor's degree in accounting, 13 years of audit experience in public accounting, exposure to a variety of industries is a plus, strong knowledge of GAAP and audit procedures, ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines, strong verbal and written communication skills, experience in a paperless environment; ProSystems preferred, and ability to travel within the Atlanta metro area, with occasional limited out-of-state travel.

Summary of benefits includes competitive compensation with performance bonuses and healthcare benefits, flexible hybrid schedules, compressed workweeks, and reduced hours during non-busy season, casual dress environment, maternity and paternity leave, generous PTO and firm-paid holidays, firm-provided childcare, life insurance, and disability coverage, 401(k) with match and profit-sharing contributions, career development programs, mentorship, and potential path to partner.