Senior Audit Associate

Fort Wayne, IN | 4+ years public accounting experience What would you do with an extra Friday every week outside of busy season? Once your 40 hours are complete here, you’re done. Work 4 longer days? That’s you heading into a 3 day weekend. And this isn’t a tiny team where becoming more senior just means picking up everything nobody else has time to do. This is an independent firm and they’ve been investing heavily in the next generation of their team. They recently welcomed 8 new graduates into the firm. 6 of them were returning interns who chose to come back full time. So for an experienced Audit Senior, this is what life can look like here - You’ll still be hands on with your own audit work, but you’ll also have plenty of junior people around you to support, train and mentor. If you enjoy that side of being a Senior and want to start building your leadership skills, you’ll actually get the chance to do it. The audit work itself is varied, with manufacturing their largest industry. You won’t be boxed into one narrow area, and because the client base is overwhelmingly local, you’ll spend more time actually getting to know your clients without constantly travelling. Around 90% of their clients are within an hour of Fort Wayne, and 95% are within 2. They’ve deliberately kept their work local too. There’s no offshore model here. The team doing the work is the team meeting the clients, learning their businesses and building those relationships. What they’re looking for: 4+ years of audit experience within public accounting Experience taking responsibility across audit engagements Someone comfortable working directly with clients An interest in supporting and developing more junior staff CPA preferred, or someone working towards it Busy season is busy. I’m not going to pretend otherwise. The minimum is around 55 hours, increasing to around 60 for a few weeks at the peak. After that, things come back down pretty quickly and once 4/15 passes, flexible Fridays kick in. Technology is another area they’re investing heavily in. They’re continually looking at how they can streamline processes, work more efficiently and use new technology, including AI, rather than doing things a certain way because that’s how they’ve always been done. And people tend to stay. It’s a down to earth, very Midwest firm with a lot of younger people coming through, experienced people around to learn from and plenty of opportunity to keep developing as the team grows. If you’re at the point where you want to be more than just the person getting the audit done, but you’re not looking to disappear into layers of management either, this is a really good middle ground. #J-18808-Ljbffr Distinct | North America