Audit Administrator

At ABIP, our mission is to help our clients accomplish their goals by providing a wide variety of quality services. As an Audit Assistant, you will provide administrative support to the audit department in addition to assisting with client services and performing audit-related work. ABIP is seeking a hardworking team player who knows what it takes to help meet deadlines and exceed client expectations—even during the busiest of times.

The ideal candidate will treat this as more of a client concierge role leaning into the client engagement elements of the job. Prior public accounting administration work is preferred for this role. Bookkeeping abilities would be a plus!

Responsibilities

Client Engagement

• Proof and process prepared deliverables such as engagement letters
• Facilitate the audit confirmation process from start to finish
• Prioritize client engagement and processing deliverables
• Proof and format all client engagement reports for clarity and grammar; foot and ensure appropriate schedules and financial statements tie; confirm all calculations (e.g. percentages) are correct
• Client onboarding
• Ensure clients get updates throughout the audit process

Administrative

• Read through documents to spot errors without relying on technology to highlight errors
• Completes assigned work and wraps up loose ends timely; meets deadlines
• Resolves and clears reviewer comments efficiently and effectively
• Adheres to firm policies and procedures
• Exhibits creativity (suggests new ideas or “thinks outside the box”)
• Demonstrates a positive attitude toward our firm and our profession as well as accepts inconveniences of the profession.

Executive Support

• Manage assigned calendars
• Keeps partners, managers, and staff informed of the status of work
• Register for events for partners, managers, and staff
• Format and proof documents with great attention to detail
• Prepare and/or review expense reports for partners and managers to ensure receipts are included prior to providing them for approval
• Ensure that all CPE documents are completed in the appropriate time frame
• Set up meeting rooms before each scheduled meeting
• Order lunch before each scheduled meeting in our office over lunch, cleaning up as needed

Education and Experience

• Associate’s degree or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of administrative experience preferably in public accounting, ideally supporting the audit department or processes
• Proven abilities in Microsoft Word and Excel

Skills

• Client services/customer service
• Microsoft Word
• Proofreading
• Attention to detail
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Organization
• Listening and communication
• Microsoft Excel

Abilities

• Light bookkeeping preferred
• Ability to adapt to a changing work environment
• Comfortable working with all levels of staff and management
• Good judgment abilities with the ability to find sound conclusions
• Demonstrate ethical behavior in accordance with professional standards
• Assumes responsibility for his or her work
• Gets along well with others and promotes positively
• Willingness to perform various other administrative duties as may be assigned