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Senior Staff Accountant

BGHN Associates, P.C., a local CPA firm in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is seeking a highly skilled and detail oriented Senior Accountant to join our team. A Senior Accountant has the primary responsibility for completing client engagements within budget, supervising one or more staff accountant(s) as necessary, and presenting the work for final review. Senior Accountants are CPAs generally with 3-5 years of experience. 

Duties

* Know and understand reasons behind firm policies and procedures.

* Develop sufficient technical knowledge that a minimum amount of supervision is needed. The senior should present work for review that requires minimal changes.

* Coach and develop others. Supervises one or more staff on engagements. This requires effective delegating, progress monitoring, teaching, and giving performance feedback.

* Manage engagements, making sure that quality work is performed within budget and on time, while minimizing stress.

* Begin acquiring skills necessary to develop quality client relationships. Has meaningful, effective, and efficient contact with clients and gains the client's respect.   

* Identify new client leads for managers and partners to close and opportunities for expanded services.

* Begin to develop a specialty in a certain area or market.

* Actions demonstrate alignment with the BGHN core behaviors.

* Be an active member of a BGHN committee.