Requirements

Performance Senior accountants are expected to:

Accept all responsibility for routine engagements. These responsibilities will include delegation of work to lower-level staff, supervision of lower-level staff and any other decisions relative to the work performed.
Maintain good communication with lower-level staff to make sure all work is being performed in an accurate and timely manner.
Maintain communication with supervisors, managers and partners to ensure the work-process is continuing in an organized, efficient and professional manner.
Begin developing relationships with clients and handling routine responsibilities and engagements while targeting subjects which should be discussed with superiors.

Assignments: Senior accountants are responsible for some portions of regular engagements, with little supervision.

Duties may include the following:

Supervising staff on engagements, including delegation of duties
Participating on several engagements simultaneously
Handling written correspondence with minimal supervision.

Professional Development: Senior accountants are expected to develop professionally by:

Actively pursuing CPA certificate.
Demonstrating ability to sell new services to existing clients and to begin to attract new business to the Firm
Taking an interest in administrative activities: staff evaluations, performance reviews, recruiting and developing office policy
Working with management on in-house training programs, including CPE and other presentations
Continuing participation in civic events, while continuing to reflect Firm image and to attract new business
Working with supervisor, manager or partners on assigning work to staff accountants
Demonstrating some leadership of staff accountants.

Wymagane umiejętności

Staff supervision and delegationCross-level communication with staff, supervisors, managers and partnersClient relationship management and client-facing engagement developmentEngagement management and simultaneous multi-engagement coordinationProfessional written correspondence and business writingBusiness development and selling services to existing and new clientsTraining design and delivery (in-house training, CPE presentations)Recruiting, staff evaluations and office policy developmentLeadership of staff accountants and performance managementIndependent execution of routine accounting engagements with minimal supervisionCPA certification pursuit and exam preparationWorkflow, time management and ensuring accurate, timely completion of work

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