Job Duties
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
- Written pre-approval by the Client Service Assurance Partner and the Practice Region RTD and RBLL and the Practice Office OBLL for the specific assignment before a Director may perform duties of Engagement Director of that specific assignment
- The Director must demonstrate the requisite industry experience necessary for the specified engagement
- The final review of only the financial statements and MRC must be performed by an Assurance Partner. When functioning as Concurring Reviewer where the engagement is sensitive but non-public:
- 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
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
Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- 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