Assurance Senior Manager

Boos & Associates, a Professional Corp.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Boos & Associates, a Professional Corporation, seeks an Assurance Senior Manager for its San Francisco Bay Area office. The role focuses on overseeing audits for privately held clients, guiding staff, and delivering reliable financial reporting.

Strong leadership, GAAP/GAAS knowledge, and client relationship skills are essential. The candidate should have extensive external auditing experience (Big 4 or national firm preferred), 10+ years in public accounting, and an active US CPA license, with

Qualifications

• Extensive external auditing experience, preferably in Big 4 or national firm.
• Ten+ years public accounting experience.
• Active licensed US CPA; international equivalent acceptable with path to US license.

Responsibilities

• Oversee and manage multiple audit engagements for privately held clients across industries.
• Advise clients on economic and regulatory risks; apply GAAP/GAAS consistently.
• Prepare technical memos on GAAP/GAAS; document and assess internal controls.
• Lead and develop staff; manage client relationships and engagement profitability.

Skills

External auditing

Leadership

Client relations

GAAP GAAS

Engagement profitability

Communication skills

People development

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's in Accounting

Tools

Microsoft Office

Audit software

Job description

Boos & Associates is growing, we were recently named one of the Fastest Growing Accounting Firms and Businesses in the Fresno area by the Fresno Business Journal. That growth has led us to expand to different markets and we are in need of an Assurance Senior Manager to be at the center of our business needs in the San Francisco Bay Area office.

If you are looking for an opportunity to help grow our firm, have an entrepreneur spirit, and enjoy leading and developing professional individuals this might be the role for you!

What you will do:

As the Assurance Senior Manager, you will play a critical role in overseeing and managing multiple audit engagements for a wide range of clients, focusing primarily on privately held companies in a variety of industries. Your leadership and expertise will be instrumental in ensuring the accuracy and reliability of financial statements and disclosures, providing clients with valuable insights, and fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders.

Traditionally responsibilities of the Senior Assurance Manager will include advising the client on various economic and regulatory risks within their industry, resolving complex accounting issues, apply GAAP and GAAS consistently within complex situations, writing technical consultation memos on GAAP / GAAS issues, and documenting, validating, testing and assessing various financial reporting control systems.

What you bring to the role:

Education:

Bachelors in Accounting or equivalent required

Experiences, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

*Extensive experience in external auditing, preferably in Big 4 or National accounting firm.

• Ten (10) or more years prior work experience in public accounting required.
• Prior significant supervisory experience.
• Excellent leadership and team management skills, with a track record of successfully leading and motivating diverse teams.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills to build strong client relationship and interact effectively with stakeholders.

License/Certifications:

• Active licensed US CPA, recognized active International Equivalent or unique qualification as defined by Firm’s Assurance Licensing Policy, required
• If active international equivalent or unique qualifications, required to obtain an active US CPA license within approved timeframe as defined by firm licensing requirement guidelines

Software:

• Experience in the use of various assurance applications and research tools as is appropriate for this level
• Microsoft Office Products, including Windows, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
• Sound GAAP and GAAS knowledge
• Possess proven solid verbal and written communication skills
• Possess excellent people development and delegation skills, including training/instruction and engagement scheduling and budgeting
• Possess executive presence - need to be able to be primary contact for the client, prepare and present presentations to clients and potential clients
• Possess solid decision-making skills
• Able to resolve complex accounting issues
• Able to be responsible for business development and marketing
• Able to be responsible for engagement profitability including billings and collections

More About Boos & Associates, a Professional Corporation is a Certified Public Accountant and Consulting firm established in February 2004. Prior to founding the firm our Managing Director was a Tax Director with a Big 4 accounting firm with over 30 years public accounting experience. We currently have a staff of approximately 90 and anticipate significant expansion opportunities in the near and long term. Our greatest strength is our people. We foster and support innovative, strategic ideas that can transform developments in accounting, tax and consulting into practical solutions for our clients. Our Fresno office is a first-class facility located in the Fig Garden Financial Center. The firm is paperless and uses the latest in technology to assist our associates in performing in a more efficient and effective manner. The firm provides above market performance-based compensation and provides competitive employer paid employee benefits and a generous personal time off policy. We continually invest in our people by providing extensive training and career advisor programs.

We recognize our unique opportunity to embrace the cultural and ethnic opportunity our clients and people have to offer. We are committed to optimizing this opportunity to hire outstanding individuals of diverse backgrounds, and to offer them a dynamic, challenging environment to develop their skills as trusted advisors to our clients. Our commitment to diversity encompasses all people within our firm, professionals, and administrative support alike, including people of different races, religions, cultural backgrounds, national origins, disabilities or medical conditions, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity and ages.

Compensation Information:

Individual salaries that are offered to a candidate are determined after consideration of numerous factors including but not limited to the candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and geography.

We are an independent member of the BDO Alliance USA.

As an independent member of BDO Alliance USA, our shared Core Purpose is Helping People Thrive Every Day. Our Core Values reflect how we manage our work, our relationships and ourselves. As an employee of the firm, you will live true to our Core Values of people first, being exceptional every day in every way, embracing change, feeling empowered through knowledge, and choosing accountability. Our Core Values are the standards by which we conduct ourselves day in and day out, both internally and externally.