What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accounting + Advisory Services Supervisor position at Smith + Howard?
Accounting Advisory Services Supervisor
Do you want a career without limits? Do you want to shape your own future and be surrounded by people who listen? If so, we have the perfect opportunity for you at Smith Howard.
Smith Howard is a full-service public accounting firm that offers tax, accounting, and advisory services. We are headquartered in Atlanta with a national reach while still offering a local firm flavor.
We offer competitive pay, excellent training opportunities, and great benefits. You can help influence our culture and have the support and dedication from our leaders to help you achieve your career goals. Smith Howard provides a great opportunity for professional growth and advancement within one of Atlanta’s top companies.
If you are ready to make a career move and join a firm consistently named an “AJC Top Workplace” and a “Best of the Best Firms” (Inside Public Accounting), we invite you to complete our employment application.
Summary
The Smith and Howard Accounting and Advisory Services team provides an entrepreneurial environment for individuals to improve their skills, think creatively, and take ownership of their career development. Your desire for new experiences, team achievement, and client service will fuel your career advancement within our Advisory Services practice. Make your career and office environment what you want it to be.
As a Supervisor within Accounting and Advisory Services, you will be a client liaison with a team of accountants who fulfill outsourced accounting, business processes, controllership, and financial planning and analysis engagements. Your clients span a broad range of industries and have complex needs, including consolidations, foreign currency accounting, and consulting on best practices.
Essential Functions
Supervise client accounting and advisory engagements by effectively communicating needs, technical accounting knowledge, and practical solutions to client, staff, and management challenges.
Lead and oversee many recurring outsourced controllership engagements, business advisory services, and ad hoc projects using organizational skills to keep up with due dates and changing timelines.
Review the work of team members and train them in the learning and development of balance sheet account reconciliations, financial statement preparation, payroll taxes, and other responsibilities.
Hold implementation meetings with new clients to design and execute engagement deliverables and ensure team accountability for client service.
Collaboratively communicate with stakeholders to identify and solve complex problems around client-specific operational and accounting matters.
Prepare financial statements under multiple bases of accounting, including cash and accrual for the Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Statement of Cash Flows, and other supporting schedules.
Knowledge of U.S. GAAP and ability to learn and keep up with industry changes.
Use data extraction and reporting tools to demonstrate trends and develop meaningful conclusions for management consideration.
Knowledge of financial ratios, analytical techniques, and the relationship between accounts to create and maintain ad hoc reporting, modeling, and performance metrics.
Prepare payroll tax return forms 1099, W-2, 941, 940, and required state forms.
Proficient learner of concepts, client business environment, and software applications as required by the firm or client to assist with coaching the firm or client staff when necessary.
Adhere to the professional ethics of the firm, the AICPA, and the Georgia Society of CPAs.
Adhere to firm policy regarding client confidentiality.
Position Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting/Finance or another relevant degree program.
CPA license preferred.
Three to five years of accounting experience, including three or more years of public accounting in client accounting and advisory services.
