Senior Auditor, Quality Management (SQMS)

Senior Auditor – Internal Audit Quality & Compliance
100% Remote | $80,000–$120,000 | Full-Time

About the Organization

Our client is an established CPA and assurance firm specializing in security, compliance, audit, and attestation services. The organization works with companies across multiple industries and supports SOC examinations and other complex compliance and assurance engagements.

This is a highly collaborative, entrepreneurial environment where employees are expected to work independently, exercise strong professional judgment, and continuously improve audit quality and compliance processes.

Description of the Position

Our client is seeking a Senior Auditor with a strong public accounting audit background to join its internal Quality Management team.

Public accounting audit experience is required for this position.

This is not simply an external audit execution role. This individual will work internally with audit and assurance professionals to help ensure engagements performed for the organization's clients comply with applicable professional standards, internal methodologies, quality requirements, and regulatory expectations.

The position is ideal for someone who has worked in public accounting audit and is interested in applying that experience from an internal audit, quality assurance, audit compliance, and risk-management perspective.

You will review audit work, identify quality and compliance risks, perform internal inspections, evaluate deficiencies, conduct root cause analysis, recommend remediation, and help ensure the firm's audit and assurance practices remain compliant with AICPA standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform internal quality reviews and inspections of completed and in-process audit and assurance engagements.
• Evaluate whether audit documentation and engagement execution comply with professional standards and internal firm policies.
• Review audit files with an internal auditor and quality-control mindset, identifying areas of noncompliance, audit risk, documentation deficiencies, and process weaknesses.
• Support the organization's System of Quality Management (SOQM).
• Identify and assess quality risks affecting audit and assurance engagements.
• Evaluate inspection findings and determine whether deficiencies exist.
• Assess the severity and pervasiveness of identified audit or quality deficiencies.
• Perform root cause analysis to determine why audit-quality issues occurred.
• Develop, document, and track corrective and remediation actions.
• Evaluate whether remediation efforts have effectively addressed identified issues.
• Participate in internal monitoring and engagement inspection programs.
• Support Engagement Quality Reviews (EQRs).
• Review compliance with independence and professional ethics requirements.
• Assist with client acceptance and continuance procedures, including higher-risk engagements.
• Maintain and update audit methodologies, policies, procedures, templates, checklists, and technical guidance.
• Monitor new and revised accounting, auditing, attestation, and quality-management standards.
• Support the annual evaluation of the organization's System of Quality Management.
• Prepare quality-management findings and reports for leadership.
• Communicate audit-quality issues and recommendations to senior professionals in a constructive and professional manner.
• Assist with internal technical and quality-management training.

Required Qualifications

Candidates must have public accounting audit experience to be considered.

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field.
• 3+ years of public accounting audit experience.
• At least 2 years operating at the Senior Auditor level or above.
• Strong understanding of audit methodology, audit documentation, professional skepticism, and engagement-quality requirements.
• Working knowledge of AICPA professional standards.
• Experience reviewing audit work for quality, compliance, or adherence to professional standards.
• Experience with one or more of the following:
  • Internal audit or internal monitoring
  • Audit quality control or quality management
  • Engagement inspections
  • Peer review
  • Engagement Quality Reviews
  • Audit compliance
• Strong understanding of risk assessment, internal controls, audit evidence, documentation standards, and audit conclusions.
• Ability to identify deficiencies and determine appropriate corrective action.
• Strong written documentation and report-writing skills.
• Ability to communicate audit findings to senior-level professionals.
• Strong professional judgment and analytical skills.
• Ability to independently manage multiple reviews and quality initiatives in a remote environment.

Highly Preferred

• Active CPA license.
• Public accounting experience performing SOC 1 and/or SOC 2 examinations.
• Experience with the Trust Services Criteria.
• Previous experience within a CPA firm's Audit Quality, Professional Practice, Quality Control, Internal Inspection, or Quality Management function.
• Experience supporting peer reviews or internal engagement inspections.
• Experience performing root cause analysis and remediation.
• Familiarity with SQMS Nos. 1, 2, and 3.
• Familiarity with SAS No. 146 and applicable attestation standards.
• Strong understanding of the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct.

Benefits

Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, unlimited Flex PTO, 10 paid holidays, 401(k) eligibility beginning on Day 1 with employer matching, company-paid short- and long-term disability coverage, and home-office assistance.