Seasonal Senior Associate, ISO

Schellman is a Top 50 CPA firm and a leading provider of attestation and compliance services. Our professional services focus on security and privacy audits, assessments, and certifications. Schellman has become one of the largest cybersecurity assessment firms in the United States without providing any traditional accounting services. We are an accredited multi-framework ISO Certification Body for security, privacy, business continuity, and quality; a globally licensed PCI Qualified Security Assessor and a top provider to clients serving the federal DoD space as a leading FedRAMP 3PAO and the first assessment firm authorized as a CMMC C3PAO. Our specialty and expertise remain in providing best in class Cybersecurity and IT Audits and Attestations. Our culture, approach with clients, and dedication to our values has led us to consistently be a Great Places to Work certified company and rated as a Best Firms to Work For by Accounting Today and a Glassdoor Best Places to Work. We deeply appreciate our employees, as shown by our first core value – People Come First. This is demonstrated in our culture, benefits, and how we handle business. Come see what makes Schellman special!

Job Summary

As a Seasonal Senior Associate, you’ll bring the best of your audit/assessor and attestation knowledge to a flexible work environment where you can keep your skills sharp, your experience relevant and together achieve client and company goals. You’ll be primarily responsible for hands-on project execution and will be assigned to a specific service delivery management team and Principal that is responsible for supervising the project.

There is no typical day for our attestation and audit teams. Our teams are mostly remote (yet extremely collaborative) and work together to utilize their unique backgrounds and experience to provide the high level of quality service that our clients have come to expect.

The Essentials

• Comply with Schellman’s code of ethics and professional conduct, methodologies, policies, and procedures
• Adhere to the professional and regulatory standards relevant to assigned service line specialization(s)
• Promote Schellman’s company culture and exemplifying Schellman's values
• Establish high quality relationships and rapport with client personnel
• Manage client expectations to ensure expectations are exceeded
• Complete assigned duties in a timely manner and with a high attention to detail
• Collaborate with fellow project team members in a productive and timely manner throughout the life cycle of each project
• Adhere to project schedules and keeping fellow project team members apprised of the progress of assigned tasks
• Escalate issues internally in a proper and timely manner
• Use discretion and decorum in the timing, form, and content of all client communications
• Perform the essential functions of other service delivery positions when qualified and called upon to do so
• Attend project kick-off and closing meetings
• Execute assigned testing procedures, performing detailed analysis, reaching conclusions, documenting results in accordance with company standards, and suggesting ideas for improvements, where applicable
• Draft project deliverables
• Serve as a contact for clients' basic questions regarding an engagement
• Develop an expert knowledge of professional and regulatory standards relevant to assigned service line specialization(s)