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By joining our newly created National Internal Controls Advisory Team (“Internal Controls Team”), you will serve as a trusted partner to our clients helping them work through their most challenging and complex internal control areas of the company.
Internal control over financial reporting ("ICFR") continues to attract the attention of clients, auditors and regulators. Recurring deficiencies identified by the PCAOB in their inspections of audit firms continues to produce unacceptable results. The most prevalent issued identified continues to be “controls-related” deficiencies. Audit firms have taken varying actions to address the problems with their clients. The quality of a client’s processes, controls and related documentation have come under intense scrutiny from the auditor resulting in increased client issued significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.
The Internal Controls Team specializes in assisting our clients in creating and enhancing internal control documentation focused on complex and significant transactions that have their own unique internal control considerations. Our team is comprised of former Big-4 national office representatives that have provided oversight, leadership, and direction to teams over internal controls. Our team members have regularly engaged with regulators and standard setters such as the PCAOB through inspections and understand the level of internal control documentation that is required in these complex areas. Our unique insights, experiences and prospectives provide unmatched experience in preparing internal control documentation that has stood up to the rigors of PCAOB inspections.
What You'll Do:
- Lead the Internal Controls Team, leveraging your significance expertise in internal controls, interactions with regulators, standard setters and auditors, to expand our client base and team
- Oversee accounts and client relationships across various industries, including emerging growth companies
- Drive development of solutions and deliverables, combining internal controls depth and experience with management consulting skills to influence and deliver results to clients
- Serve as a coach and mentor to team members, fostering their professional growth and development
- Provide hands-on project leadership and apply specialized knowledge across a diverse range of engagements designed at creating the highest quality internal controls documentation
- Manage teams and people by tracking and directing performance against objectives, while encouraging continuous improvement and innovation
- Act as role model, supervisor, coach, and mentor to team members
What You'll Bring:
- 15+ years prior experience in public accounting firm serving public clients and (or) advising or providing coaching to audit teams on internal control documentation, audit methodology, and various risk management and quality control procedures
- Experience with monitoring, or supporting team with external PCAOB and internal firm-related inspections covering internal control over financial reporting
- Experience mentoring and developing junior team members and helping project teams resolve multifaceted issues
- Demonstrated desire for continued learning about new and emerging regulatory standards
- Consistent success in building and developing strong client relationships
- Identify new growth and shared revenue opportunities, collaborating with sales leadership to originate new business, grow existing relationships and increase bookings
- A passion for mentoring and leading teams while efficiently implementing new ideas and initiatives
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in accounting from an accredited university
- Professional certification (CPA)
- Willingness to travel domestically up to 20%-30% (varies by client).
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For applicants located in New York, CrossCountry Consulting is required to include an estimate of the compensation range for this role. The following range takes into account a wide range of factors including but not limited to, skills, experience, education, licenses, certifications, business needs, and internal equity. An estimate of the current range is $160,000 - $326,000 per year + annual bonus + additional benefits.
Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)
CrossCountry provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment and believes that respect and fair treatment are critical to creating a productive, diverse, and inclusive workplace.
As an equal employer, CrossCountry is fully committed to comply with all federal, state, and local laws and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, pregnancy, genetics, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy also complies with pay transparency and labor laws and applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
