Senior Associate, Audit – Financial Services

Crowe

Audit Senior Associate providing financial services audit at Crowe. Transitioning between industry verticals in Audit & Assurance, maintaining strong client relationships.

Posted 4/25/2026full-timeColumbus • Illinois, Missouri, Ohio • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $70,600 - $139,800 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Running client engagements from start to finish.
Supervising, training, and mentoring staff and interns on audit process and assess performance of staff for engagement reviews.
Maintaining an outstanding relationship with clients to increase customer happiness and working with client management and staff at all levels to perform audit services.
Work with your audit team to identify and resolve client issues discovered during the audit process.
Researching and analyzing financial statements and audit issues using electronic databases, and employing audit software to review and compile financial information.
Engage with key client management to collect information, resolve audit-related problems, and make recommendations for business and process improvements.

Requirements

What you’ll need

2+ years of recent and relevant public accounting external audit experience.
Your background should have experience in external audit working with Banking, Private Equity, Asset Management, Insurance, & Fintech clients.
Organization, social, technical, and accounting and auditing skills to work efficiently with clients and staff as well as build positive relationships.
Experience with engagement management, reviews, and staff supervision.
Ability to perform research on technical matters prior to submitting for manager review is important.
This position requires meeting the education requirement for CPA certification in your aligned home office state.
Having a CPA license in that state already is even better.
Ability to work additional hours as needed and travel to various client sites.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Your exceptional people experience starts here.
We care about our people and offer employees a comprehensive total rewards package.

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Hard Skills & Tools

external auditfinancial statement analysisaudit softwareengagement managementstaff supervisionresearch on technical mattersperformance assessment

Soft Skills

organizationcommunicationrelationship buildingmentoringproblem-solving

Certifications

CPA certificationCPA license