Assurance Services Senior Manager Job Description
Assurance services senior manager
provides technical accounting guidance in the identification and application of US GAAP, IFRS, SEC, and other authoritative accounting guidance in support of the company’s global finance organization.
Assurance Services Senior Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Building upon your experience and knowledge of the Financial Services industry to develop insight
Chair/participate/research benchmarking against best in class audit practices
Provide expert technical advice related to the development of new approaches, techniques and methodologies related to audit innovation and new assurance and advisory services
You will work closely with senior members of the Corporate Audit Services team to ensure the audit process is executed in the most effective, efficient manner and in accordance with professional audit standards and quality assurance practices
You will monitor, implement and apply industry best practice audit standards, methodologies and tools
You will be responsible for issuing client satisfaction surveys to management and ensuring the team adheres to quality standards
You will also lead initiatives on the team to drive continuous improvement across all areas of the audit process
You will also prepare and improve the monthly 'dashboard' to monitor the team's progress against key performance indicators
You will manage Corporate Audit Services’ training and tools budget
You will be the first point of contact to provide guidance and audit results to middle and senior management, including leading audit opening and closing meetings for the engagements you have responsibility for
Assurance Services Senior Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Assurance Services Senior Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPA, CISA, CIA, CA, CBCP, CISM, CISSP, US, CFE, CGEIT
Education for Assurance Services Senior Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the assurance services senior manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Accounting, Finance, Graduate, Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Economics, Mathematics, Public Accounting
Skills for Assurance Services Senior Manager
Desired skills for assurance services senior manager include:
US auditing and assurance/PCAOB auditing standards is considered an asset
ASPE and IFRS
US GAAP
Public Sector Accounting Standards
Experience working with CAS
SEC and PCAOB rules
Management and incentive fee and carried interest calculations
Partner capital allocations and computations
Technical accounting experience
UK GAAP
Desired experience for assurance services senior manager includes:
Five (5) or more years of experience performing in a senior role within a Federal Contracting and Cost Accounting environment with contract experience in CR, ID/IQ, T&M
Strong knowledge of the attestation standards, and a working knowledge of controls (including ICFR and IT controls)
Ability and willingness to develop sufficient working knowledge of new subject matter areas as needed to facilitate collaboration with member subject matter experts on the development of guidance and thought leadership material
Self-starter able to work without supervision
Good interpersonal skills with proven ability to work collaboratively within a team environment
7+ years of relevant experience that delivers strong understanding of the accounting profession and auditing/assurance services
Assurance Services Senior Manager Examples
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Assurance Services Senior Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of assurance services senior manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for assurance services senior manager
- You will develop and review audit presentations, ensuring that high quality standards for content, form and design are being met consistently
- Assessing the impact of new accounting standards such as IFRSs 15 and 16, and assisting clients with implementation of the standards
- Advising clients on the accounting for new products and structured transactions
- Providing specialist accounting support to transactional diligence teams on complex accounting issues
- Managing key external audit relationships within the Banking, Investment Management and Insurance sectors
- Maintaining your sector knowledge and using it to support proposition development
- Developing and supporting staff and taking an important role in the appraisal and staff development process of the firm
- Understanding and implementing the firm’s commitment to create an inclusive culture
- Managing/manage diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
- Leading and delivering a portfolio of predominantly assurance engagements including external audit, service auditor reports (ISAE3402/SOC1 and SOC2) and integrated audits (Sarbanes Oxley)
Qualifications for assurance services senior manager
- Qualified candidates will have a CPA license and/or have completed an MBA or Masters in Accounting program
- 10+ years developing CPA practitioner guidance
- Ideally have extensive previous audit experience – preferably from practice (Big 4 is a plus) or gained from working in internal audit within a multinational company
- Intermediate to advanced level understanding of financial, process, and control concepts
- Strong written and oral communication skills, excellent organizational and time management skills
- Corporate audit experience
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for an assurance services senior manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for assurance services senior manager
- Owning and delivering initiatives to embed quality through learning and other activity
- Helping in efforts to target a wide range of clients and to build client relationships
- Have a clear understanding of the firm’s commitment to nurturing an inclusive culture and supporting this through your actions
- Develop a flexible, risk-based annual IT audit, assurance and advisory services plan, forming part of the BAS department’s overall annual plan
- Deliver the annual IT audit, assurance and advisory services plan, leading and performing the planning, fieldwork, and reporting of the IT audits and reviews, working with the non-IT BAS team members on integrated audits and other BAS projects
- Become a trusted business advisor by developing deep business relationships and providing value-add assurance, advice and insight to IT and business senior management on IT governance, risk, compliance, and control improvement matters
- Work regularly and communicate effectively with IT and business process owners and senior management to relay findings and recommendations, help drive remediation efforts to closure, advise on control requirements to be included in the design of new systems and processes, identify trends and insights, and continuously seek opportunities for improvement
- Manage outside consulting resources on select engagements to carry out BAS activities and meet BAS objectives – within budget and on schedule for each engagement
- Manage key audit relationships within the Investment Management, Real Estate and Private Equity sectors
- Identify and develop both audit and advisory opportunities with new and existing clients
Qualifications for assurance services senior manager
- Proven project management capabilities in technical accounting
- Significant experience in business development activities
- Candidates should be auditors and hold a relevant accounting qualification, such as the ACA or ACCA
- Good knowledge and experience of regulation, compliance and operating practices in of the investment management, insurance or banking sectors
- A track record of interpreting those regulations and operating practices to implement solutions for clients
- A proven track record of establishing and maintaining strong client relationships
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Our company is looking for an assurance services senior manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for assurance services senior manager
- Delivery of infrastructure service relating to Hosting & Networks
- Definition and implementation of the service delivery strategy of the future of Hosting & Networks
- Budgetary ownership of circa £25m
- Quality Assurance Planning
- Participate as a subject matter expert in projects guiding adoption of best practices for database solutions
- And other responsibilities as required
- Conducts audits of tax practice engagements for compliance with Firm and practice policies, procedures, and best practices to ensure a consistent, professional, and trusted experience for the client
- Evaluates client service issues and identifies recommendations to policies, procedures, and best practices to ensure clear standards in the client journey are defined
- Reports findings and recommendations to Leadership team and key stakeholders
- Serves as a Quality Assurance Business Partner for assigned practices, collaborating with Service Delivery to recommend improvements to audit and peer review processes, policies, procedures, and best practices to further enhance the overall client experience
Qualifications for assurance services senior manager
- Experience as a self-starter, confidence, and entrepreneurial aptitude for technical writing and managing project deadlines
- Experience develop strong client relationships in corporate accounting
- The ability to identify sales opportunities and drive the business development process
- Strong leadership skills and the ability to work under own initiative in many different and challenging environments
- Strong presentation, business writing and professional standards
- Significant experience of leading complex technology assurance engagements, such as external audit, service auditor reports and integrated audits (Sarbanes Oxley)
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of assurance services senior manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for assurance services senior manager
- Assists with various Firm initiatives
- Develop, deploy or simulate technical test cases, and/or POC, and follow up on control issues for proper implementation, at the same time, develop a mechanism/solution to ensure the issue is also adequately addressed across function and locations
- Lead and conduct sensitive investigations (planning, fieldwork, reporting) including interviews/interrogations, collecting and analyzing data, assessing evidence, drawing conclusions, reporting results, recommending solutions and improvements, and following up to ensure remedial action is taken
- Lead anti-fraud efforts including performing fraud risk assessments, examining and evaluating the adequacy and effectiveness of the fraud-related controls, preparing and delivering fraud training, and advising management in the design and implementation of fraud prevention/detection/mitigation policies and procedures
- Work alongside other BAS team members to incorporate fraud risk assessment procedures into the annual audit planning process and fraud detection procedures into the project planning and fieldwork process
- Develop and deliver forensic capabilities including forensic data analytics and computer assisted audit techniques (CAATs) to assist in investigations, audits, assessments, and monitoring to detect and respond to breaches, fraud, non-compliance, and control gaps
- Be a trusted business advisor to management by developing and maintaining strong relationships and providing value-add assurance, advice and insight on governance, risk, compliance, and control improvement matters
- Stay up to date on trends and technologies, and inform senior leadership of new developments and best practices in investigations and fraud prevention/detection
- Planning and managing significant and complex audits
- Managing and participating in accounting related consulting projects
Qualifications for assurance services senior manager
- You will manage demanding audit engagements in the field of investment management
- You are a Swiss certified auditor (preferably)
- You have minimum 6 years' experience in external auditing in the banking/investment management field, ideally at one of the Big 4
- IT expertise along with ability to learn the business model and the business processes, combining to adeptness at assessing complex IT and business processes environments to identify potential IT, financial, operational, and compliance risks warranting audit attention
- Ability to work in a fast moving, global, complex company environment, to easily adapt between working independently or collaboratively on a team (with various stakeholders and varied personalities), to be effective in new situations, and to work comfortably in ambiguity on unstructured projects and in a multi-tasking environment
- Team player focused on team cohesion and success
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for an assurance services senior manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for assurance services senior manager
- Providing specialist support to external audit teams, including both the accounting and valuations of complex financial instruments, hedge accounting and financial instrument classifications
- Building and managing a team to deliver both assurance and audit engagements on complex financial instruments
- Leading on a variety of business development activities, developing of marketing materials, preparing and delivering client events, identification of new business opportunities
- Leading complex technical accounting discussions with clients that may shape future precedent and industry practice
- Managing and developing new relationships across Banking and Capital Markets and other parts of the business, including through our North South Europe network
- Leading continuous improvement through innovation and transformation, embracing change and challenging the way we do things to develop new ways of working
- Leading practice management activities, including facilitation of internal training courses, in particular to financial instruments specialists
- Leading diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution
- Providing credit measurement modelling and analytics services to clients
- Helping clients with designing and improving their wider credit measurement ecosystems
Qualifications for assurance services senior manager
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both written and verbal) and ability to effect change through collaboration, professionalism, trust, credibility and influence
- Strong analytical skills with ability to quickly evaluate issues and creatively solve complex problems in a solutions-oriented environment
- Commitment to quality, willingness to challenge current practice and innovate, and continuous improvement mindset
- Ability to listen to understand and to bring a balanced perspective, while skillfully managing potentially contentious interactions and standing ground in the face of audit client or internal pressure
- Self-motivated, flexible, proactive, rapid learner and responsive
- Minimum 8 years of experience including 5+ years of IT audit and/or information systems experience