Description
The Accounting & Auditing Specialist Editor applies broad technical accounting and auditing knowledge, practical audit experience, and strong research and writing skills to develop and improve audit methodology across the audit product line.
Key Responsibilities:
- Turn complex accounting and auditing guidance into clear narrative content and practical, workflow-ready checklists and practice aids.
- Manage multiple assignments and deliver work by established deadlines.
- Recommend updates, practical insights, and improvements to products.
- Help determine how audit methodology and content should evolve for AI-native workflows.
- Apply judgment when assessing the reliability and limitations of automated or AI-assisted tools and when designing procedures that satisfy standards, documentation, and professional skepticism requirements.
Required Qualifications:
- CPA certification.
- At least 7 years of practical audit experience, preferably at the Manager or Senior Manager level in public accounting.
- Broad technical accounting and auditing knowledge, strong research skills, and working knowledge of current auditing standards, such as PCAOB, AICPA, and Uniform Guidance standards, as applicable.
- Experience applying, reviewing, or updating audit methodology, including engagement methodology, quality management, or technical guidance.
- Hands-on experience using automated or AI-assisted tools in engagements, such as data analytics or document analysis.
- Judgment to assess a tool's reliability and limitations and to design procedures around it that satisfy standards, documentation, and professional skepticism requirements.
- Strong writing skills, including the ability to turn complex guidance into clear narrative content and practical, workflow-ready checklists and practice aids.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments to deadlines and recommend updates, practical insights, and product improvements, including how audit methodology and content should evolve for AI-native workflows.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with generative AI or machine learning in audit or assurance, including validating AI-generated output.
- Audit or accounting experience with employee benefit plan, nonprofit, government, or single audit clients.
- Experience with compilation and review engagements.
What's in it For You?:
- Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
- Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset.
- Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions.
- Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headstock app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
- Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more.
- Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute.
- Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency.