Audit and Assurance Senior Manager

CCK Strategies; Frisco (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

CCK Strategies is seeking an Audit & Assurance Senior Manager to identify strategic consulting opportunities, develop talent, and cultivate client relationships across industries. The role emphasizes leveraging cross-project knowledge, staff training, client communication, root cause analysis, and expanding service offerings.

The candidate will supervise assurance engagements, mentor staff, and coordinate with Partners to deliver high-quality financial statement audits, reviews, and

Qualifications

• CPA license is required.
• Minimum 5 years in public accounting/internal audit or related field.
• Experience with all levels of assurance products (compilations, reviews, audits).
• Completion of firm quality management program to sign compilations/reviews.

Responsibilities

• Manage assurance engagements from initiation to completion.
• Lead and develop Audit Staff and Seniors on engagements.
• Coordinate with teams to ensure timely project delivery.
• Provide detailed technical reviews and sign reports when appropriate.
• Conduct quality management reviews and ensure compliance with standards.
• Maintain client relationships and handle firm contacts.
• Research accounting standards and train the team.
• Travel to client locations as needed.

Skills

Adaptability

Communication

Root-cause analysis

Time management

Feedback delivery

Customer service

Leadership

Presentation skills

Travel to clients

Office tools (Excel, Word, Teams)

Analytics tools (Teammate Analytics, D

Education

CPA License

Tools

Teammate Analytics

DataSnipper

Fieldguide

Autire

Strongbox

Job description

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Description

CCK provides challenging work, professional development, and generous compensation packages. CCK’s collaborative environment spans firmwide, where individuals work together to deliver value to the client by providing solutions within teams and across firm departments. Collaboration at CCK means a group of people coming together to provide a better solution. Within CCK, Audit & Assurance focuses on partnering with clients in every stage of their organization’s life cycle to add value and provide quality assurance services This is includes financial statement audits, reviews, and compilations, as well as internal audit, SOC examinations, fraud examinations, and more.

Job Description:

The Audit & Assurance Senior Manager is responsible for identifying strategic consulting opportunities, developing next generation talent, and cultivating existing and developing new client relationships. CCK appreciates individuals with an advisory mindset who enjoy working with entrepreneurial clients across a wide range of industries. The audit & assurance manager will achieve success through demonstrating an ability to leverage knowledge from one project or industry to the next regardless of obvious similarities, competency in training staff and seniors, communicating with clients and leadership on project status and complications, applying root cause analysis to solve problems, proposing solutions, and identifying opportunities to expand service offerings with the client.

Responsibilities:

• Managing assurance engagements Including initiation of the project, updates, and coordinating review and timing through completion.
• Leading and developing Audit Staff and Seniors assigned to engagements.
• Working with Audit Staff, Seniors, Managers and Partners to ensure timely completion of projects.
• Providing detail review for assurance projects when not fulfilling the technical review role. This includes all levels of assurance products.
• Performing technical reviews, including signing the report once approved by the quality management program.
• Conducting the quality management review for managers who have not completed the quality management process and are not yet authorized to sign a report independently.
• Managing the assurance relationship with a client as needed to support all firm Contacts.
• Researching accounting standards, writing conclusions, proposing solutions, and training the team.
• Maintaining an up to date understanding of the AICPA Audit standards and recommending changes to the firm’s system of quality management as needed.
• Identifying procedures based on auditing standards which includes challenging “normal” procedures applied by other firms.
• Coaching and mentoring Seniors and Staff to develop their technical competence and advance them in their career.
• Engaging with the team across a range of platforms including MS Teams and in person.
• Proposing billing on assurance projects in a manner that makes billing simple and easy for contacts.
• Providing updates to contacts as needed regarding the status of the engagement.
• Supervising assigned interns, staff, and seniors on a weekly basis and conducting the firm expected one on one meetings.
• Fostering and engaging and interactive team environment to promote retention and employee satisfaction.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Ability to adapt to a wide variety of projects and industries.
• Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Root cause analysis with corresponding corrective action recommendations
• Effective time management – working in a dynamic environment with changing priorities and deadlines.
• Ability to provide feedback to all team members – both positive and constructive – in a manner that promotes the expected behaviors of each role. This includes providing feedback to contacts as needed to ensure an engagement is successful.
• Customer service focus, for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong Leadership and management skills.
• Presentation skills – for internal and external audiences, technical and non-technical in nature
• Ability to travel to client locations both locally and out of state as needed.
• Comfort with Microsoft Office products including, but not limited to, Excel, Word, and Teams.
• Experience with Teammate Analytics, DataSnipper, Fieldguide, Autire, Strongbox, preferred.

Requirements

• Current CPA License in any US State
• Experience (minimum 5 years) in public accounting, internal audit, or other field that demonstrates audit or examination knowledge is preferred.
• Qualified to work in the US.
• Experience with all levels of assurance products – compilations, reviews, and audits.
• Completion of the firm quality management program to sign financial statement compilations and financial statement reviews as approved by the Division Leader

This role is hybrid. Can be remote if needed.

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CCK Strategies, PLLC provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.