Senior Auditor, Quality Management (SQMS)
100% Remote | $80,000–$120,000 Base Salary | Full-Time
About the Organization
Our client is an established professional services organization specializing in audit and compliance services, supporting organizations across technology, manufacturing, and other industries. Their work includes SOC examinations and a broad range of security, assurance, and regulatory compliance frameworks.
What’s Great About Working for this Organization
The organization offers an entrepreneurial, collaborative, and highly autonomous culture where professionals are trusted to take ownership of their work and contribute ideas that improve quality, processes, and efficiency. For professionals who enjoy working independently while still being part of a collaborative team, this environment offers a strong combination of remote flexibility, meaningful technical work, exposure to leadership, and opportunities to influence how quality initiatives are developed and implemented. Team members have the opportunity to solve complex issues, continuously expand their technical knowledge, and make a visible impact across the organization.
What you will be doing as the Senior Auditor, Quality Management
This position will support the organization's firm-wide Quality Management function and play an important role in maintaining and continuously improving its System of Quality Management (SOQM). This is a high-visibility opportunity with exposure to senior leadership and is ideal for an audit professional who approaches quality management as a risk-based discipline rather than simply a compliance checklist.
The Senior Auditor will support the implementation and ongoing compliance requirements associated with AICPA Statements on Quality Management Standards (SQMS Nos. 1, 2, and 3), SAS No. 146, SSARS No. 26, applicable attestation standards, and the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct.
Candidates should be comfortable operating independently, managing multiple priorities, communicating effectively across a distributed team, and taking ownership of projects from identification through resolution.
Bonus opportunity is available; specific bonus details have not been provided.
Key Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
- Support the ongoing implementation, maintenance, and improvement of the organization's System of Quality Management.
- Maintain quality objectives and identify new or changing quality risks.
- Evaluate changes in services and engagements that could create or modify quality risks.
- Help design, document, assign, and track responses to identified quality risks.
- Perform ongoing monitoring activities and periodic engagement inspections.
- Coordinate the selection of engagements and engagement partners for inspection.
- Work with internal and external inspectors.
- Evaluate inspection findings and determine whether quality deficiencies exist.
- Assess the severity and pervasiveness of identified deficiencies.
- Conduct root cause analyses to identify underlying quality issues.
- Develop and track remediation activities through completion.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of remediation efforts.
- Support the annual evaluation of the organization's SOQM.
- Prepare quality management reporting for leadership.
- Investigate and document potential independence matters and assist with resolution.
- Monitor compliance with the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct and applicable state accountancy requirements.
- Perform client acceptance procedures and related research.
- Review higher-risk client acceptance and continuance matters.
- Perform or support Engagement Quality Reviews (EQRs).
- Maintain and update methodologies, engagement templates, checklists, policies, procedures, and technical guidance.
- Monitor new and amended professional standards and incorporate appropriate changes into methodology.
- Support consultation and differences-of-opinion processes.
- Monitor engagement documentation, archiving, and retention requirements.
- Evaluate resource competency and capacity against organizational quality objectives.
- Develop and deliver quality management and technical training.
- Monitor continuing professional education requirements.
- Evaluate third-party service providers and other resources relied upon by the organization.
- Communicate quality expectations, inspection findings, emerging issues, and professional standards updates to management.
What is Required to be Successful as the Senior Auditor, SQMS
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or a related field.
- 3+ years of public accounting experience in audit and/or attestation.
- At least 2 years of experience at the Senior level.
- Working knowledge of AICPA professional standards.
- Familiarity with SQMS Nos. 1, 2, and 3.
- Familiarity with SAS No. 146.
- Knowledge of applicable attestation standards.
- Strong understanding of the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct.
- Experience in one or more of the following:
- Quality control or quality management
- Engagement inspections
- Peer review
- Internal monitoring
- Ability to translate complex professional standards into practical policies and procedures.
- Strong written communication and documentation skills.
- Ability to communicate findings effectively and professionally.
- Strong professional judgment when working through complex or ambiguous issues.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities in a remote environment.
Highly Preferred
- Active CPA license
- Experience with a CPA firm performing SOC 1 and SOC 2 examinations
- Familiarity with the Trust Services Criteria
- Experience supporting a CPA firm's Quality Control or Quality Management function
- Experience serving as or supporting an Engagement Quality Reviewer
- Experience with quality management, GRC, or engagement-management technology
- Experience conducting root cause analysis and tracking remediation activities
- Experience supporting organization-wide quality management reporting
What Makes This Opportunity Stand Out
This opportunity may be especially attractive to an experienced audit professional who wants to move beyond traditional engagement execution and have a broader impact on audit and assurance quality.
Benefits Include
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage for eligible family members
- Unlimited Flex PTO
- Paid holidays
- 401(k) eligibility beginning Day 1 + Employer Match
- Company-paid short-term disability
- Company-paid long-term disability
- Hospital and critical illness insurance
- Home-office setup and office-expense assistance
Financial Talent Group provides equal employment and recruiting opportunities to all employees, applicants, and recruits for employment for Financial Talent Group and in recruiting employees for its clients, and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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