Principal

Audit Principal

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Withum is a forward-thinking, technology-driven advisory and accounting firm, helping clients to Be in a Position of StrengthSM in today’s modern business landscape. Withum empowers clients with innovative tools and solutions to address their accounting, tax and overall business management needs. Withum is a place where talent thrives. We recruit only the best and brightest people, with a genuine passion for the business. 

Withum’s Auditing and Attest Engagement services are the cornerstone of our firm. Withum’s audit and advisory team possess the expertise necessary to give stakeholders confidence in financial information. This team provides audit services, Review and compilation services and other agreed upon audit procedures to a variety of client sizes and industries. 

This Audit Principal role will be based out of our Providence, RI office. You'll work alongside an integrated team of seasoned, well-known CPAs and industry leaders. In this position, you have an opportunity to build a strong team. This individual will serve as a strategic leader and tactical manager of the firm for market strategy, services and support.  This leader will be directly responsible for their team and continued growth of the firm.  This person will be responsible for collaborating with region, industry and national leadership for the creation of prioritized audit account coverage in designated geographic markets.  This individual will coordinate with numerous firm resources to develop and execute a national business development market growth strategy ensuring their team has the services, strategy, tactics, training and resources to meet the growth objective.  This role will fully understand all aspects of audit, firms' audit strategy, resources and tools.  This role will create best of breed processes in order for the firm and audit team members to achieve their goals in the most efficient and effective manner possible.  

Withum’s brand is a reflection of our people, our culture and our strength. Withum has become synonymous with teamwork and client service excellence. The cornerstone of our success can truly be accredited to the dedicated professionals who work here every day, whose mission is to help our clients grow and thrive - to be in a position of strength. But our commitment goes beyond our clients as we continue to live the Withum Way, promoting personal and professional growth for all team members, clients, and surrounding communities.  

Job duties

Individual Growth

• Achieve booked revenue of up to TBD annually. The booked revenue goal is set as a range since annually your level of involvement with National and Regional audit strategy and National coaching will vary and that level of involvement will impact the booked revenue goal accordingly.
• Open, track, and close opportunities in CRM or track by other means and provide closed-won report to Director of Markets.  Once approved this report will be submitted to the NSO so that booked revenue may be entered and tracked as a contributing component of your incentive compensation.
• Collaborate, coordinate and communicate opportunities with geographic audit partners to position the firm for the highest probability of success.
• Identify and lead a coordinated, cross functional team to pursue all aspects of those audit relationships where you are Client Service Leader or BD
• Drive overall expansion and penetration of priority audit clients and targets.

 Audit Principal Duties

• Thought leader – Provide routine insight in to the audit landscape and devise competitive differentiated strategies and services for the firm and audits to deploy in targeted markets.
• Entrepreneurial team go to market deployment.  Attract, hire and retain top audit-oriented business development talent and train them on Withum, its services, resources and competitive positioning.  Create and deploy common processes for the audit to follow to ensure they are best positioned for success.
• Complete mid-year and annual reviews.
• Create a process of accountability and responsibility in ensuring audit team members communicate, coordinate and collaborate to ensure the highest probability of success for the firm. .  
• National Audit Strategy.  Actively participate in and contribute to the National and Regional Audit and National and regional service line leadership and industry leadership providing perspective and commentary on areas of opportunity and challenge presented to Withum in the audit marketplace. 

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in business, finance or accounting from an accredited institution (MBA strongly preferred)
• Experience auditing hedge funds, private equity funds, Venture Capital Funds, fund of funds, Broker Dealers and SPAC’s
• Minimum of 15+ years of professional services sales experience required
• Minimum of 8 years of industry experience. Demonstrated strategic leadership. Defining market opportunities, creating a strategic plan, process and deployment capabilities
• Demonstrated process creation.  Create, modify and train team members on appropriate processes based on best of breed practices.
• Strong verbal communication. Demonstrate clear verbal communication.
• Strong writing skills. Demonstrate clear written communication.
• Strong presentation skills. Must possess ability to organize and lead meetings with senior firm executives
• Strong leadership skills. Demonstrate ability to set strategy and lead a team of professionals in a variety of capacities and different position responsibilities.
• Project management. Candidate must demonstrate ability to manage time, multi-task, and meet deadlines for themselves and their team.
• Candidate must demonstrate experience in working as a productive member of a team
• Tangible and demonstrated experience in formal sales process deployment, use and training.

General skills & requirements

• Ability to set the tone for the team
• Ability to be a resource to other team members on the firm, audit, overall strategy and tactics.
• Ability to create an environment of accountability and responsibility and be unwavering in addressing breaches of either.
• Ability to constructively monitor, formally (CRM) and informally (personal interaction) individual and team performance.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to present information clearly and concisely
• Creative problem solving & conflict resolution
• Attentiveness to detail
• Strong organizational skills, need to be able to prioritize in a multi-task environment and be outcome oriented
• Outstanding relationship management skills and personal networking skills are essential

Withum will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, disability or because they are a protected veteran.

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