Assurance Director

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 and are currently hiring for a Director in our Assurance Department.

The Assurance Director title is reserved for professionals who achieve recognition in a technical area of assurance and risk management. The person is qualified to perform certain limited yet critical additional technical functions as an Engagement Director or as a Concurring Reviewer. These additional responsibilities are conferred only as outlined above. This senior role recognizes the person as an expert of great long-term value to the firm.

What You Do

Business Acumen

• Able to apply knowledge of business functions, processes and strategies to provide services, solutions and advice that considers and improves the organization as a whole as evidenced by:
• Ability to understand core business operations/structure of various businesses
• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of business issues, trends and industry economics
• Identifies and discusses key financial and non-financial performance measures
• Demonstrates ease with client communications

Technical Roles a Director may perform

When functioning as Engagement Director

May also be, but not required to be, a Client Service Engagement Director. In this capacity, may sign audit review and compilation reports related to these engagements, as well as engagement letters and other correspondence

The Director must demonstrate the requisite industry experience necessary for the specified engagement

The engagement must be not designated as requiring an IQCR Review in accordance with the BOOS Assurance Manual and may not be associated with or expected to be associated in the foreseeable future, which is generally a two-year horizon, with a public company.

The Director must demonstrate the requisite industry experience necessary to serve as a concurring reviewer for the specified engagement

The engagement may not be associated with or expected to be associated in the foreseeable future, which is generally a two-year horizon, with a public company.

When serving as a concurring reviewer, the Assurance Director should not have worked on the engagement in another capacity for the prior two-year period, and is prohibited from performing work on the engagement in other capacities

GAAP

Has an advanced knowledge of governing principles, applying those principles to client transactions, and documenting and communicating an understanding of these principles as evidenced by:

Advanced technical knowledge in one or more areas of GAAP

Control Environment

• Has a general understanding of the collective effect of various factors on establishing, enhancing, or mitigating the effectiveness of specific policies and procedures as evidenced by:
• Ability to identify critical and control points
• Ability to document and validate internal control system
• Ability to assess effectiveness of internal control system
• Ability to make constructive suggestions to improve client internal controls and accounting procedures

GAAS

• Has an advanced knowledge of professional standards, application of the principles contained in professional standards as evidenced by:
• An ability/experience teaching others GAAS procedures and providing guidance to others and affirms conclusions made by others
• Other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities

• Review work prepared by associates, senior associates, and managers, and provide review comments as appropriate
• Act as a Career Advisor to associates, senior associates, and managers as assigned
• Provide verbal and written performance reviews to associates, senior associates, and managers

What You Bring

Education

Bachelor’s degree, required; major in Accounting, Finance, Economics or Statistics, preferred

Master’s degree in Accountancy, preferred

Experience

• Eight (8) or more years of prior relevant audit experience and/or public accounting, private industry accounting or consulting/professional services experience, required
• Prior significant supervisory experience, required
• Industry expertise in one or more assurance specialty, preferred

License/Certifications

Active licensed US CPA, recognized active International Equivalent or unique qualification as defined by BOOS 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

Proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite, preferred

Experience with assurance applications and research tools, preferred

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Ability to supervise managers, seniors and staff, as the situation dictates, motivate team

Possess strong GAAP and GAAS technical skills and knowledge with possible industry expertise in a specialized and technical field of assurance

Advanced knowledge of SEC reporting rules, if required by specialization

Possess people development and delegation skills, including training/instruction

Possess executive presence - need to be able to be primary contact for the client, prepare and present presentations to clients and potential clients

Possess excellent risk management decision-making skills

Able to function as Engagement Director on certain engagements as set forth by specific policy

Get involved with other areas of practice

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.

More about Boos & Associates

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 130 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.

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.