Audit – Senior Manager – Technical Issues

Senior Managers will typically have five to seven years of public accounting experience and possess a high degree of knowledge of professional pronouncements.  Audit Senior Managers must be certified public accountants an advanced degree, MBA a plus.  The individual must have several years experience reviewing working papers and audit/review reports and footnotes.  The position includes involvement in firm management from client billing, staff evaluations, as well as mentoring and committee assignments.  This position reports to the firm’s audit committee and will oversee the firm’s annual inspection and peer review process.  Senior Managers are client servers, spending 65% to 75% of their time doing client work.  Serving on civic or charitable boards, speaking and/or publishing articles is a requirement of the position.

Audit Manager

Audit Managers are CPAs with four to six years of, primarily, public accounting experience.  They may have an MBA or other professional designation.  The Audit Manager should have experience supervising several accountants and engagements at the same time.  Managers should have a wide variety of client contact and have begun to develop new business through existing clients and/or referral network.  Community involvement, public speaking, and/or publishing are an important part of being promoted to Senior Manager.

Audit Senior Accountant

Senior Accountants have developed the ability to handle more complex technical assignments and have assumed supervisory responsibilities for other staff accountants’ fieldwork.  Senior accountants will be representing the company in meetings with clients, referral sources, and while providing community service.  Senior Accountants will typically hold a CPA license or have passed most parts of the CPA examination.  Senior Accountants will typically have two or three years of experience.  Public accounting experience is a definite plus.

Auditor – Zanesville

The candidate should have a minimum of three years of progressive work experience with a certified public accounting firm working on primarily audit and/or review engagements.  The individual will be a certified public accountant who has supervised others doing fieldwork.  Strong communication skills, both oral and written are important.

 Profile of
Norman, Jones, Enlow & Co.
Professional Staff Member

The profiles of individuals that have thrived at Norman, Jones, Enlow & Co. have demonstrated academic success by attaining a grade point average (GPA) of 3.2 or better in their accounting curriculum and an overall GPA of 3.0.  The individuals join Norman, Jones, Enlow & Co. with forty-five (45) quarter hours or thirty (30) semester hours of accounting, which is the minimum requirement to take the CPA examination and be successful doing the work.  The individuals are goal oriented; if they do not have the CPA certificate, they have a goal to get it in a specific period of time.  If the individual is a CPA, he/she has a goal to earn an advanced degree or other designation.

The successful candidates at Norman, Jones, Enlow & Co. “get involved” and have been involved in the past, earning varsity letters during high school, were involved in student government during high school and/or college, participated in bands, choral groups or theater.  After college, they stayed involved in non-accounting civic or charitable organizations, for example the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis, or their college alumni association.

Successful individuals at Norman, Jones, Enlow & Co. are high-energy individuals.  High energy is required to meet personal and professional goals, and to commit to the hours that are required to meet our clients’ expectations, while giving back to the community in which the individual lives and works.  Developed oral communication skills are another trait of individuals that grow professionally at Norman, Jones, Enlow & Co.  Because they worked successfully on group projects in high school and college, they communicate easily, without fear, in internal planning sessions and in discussions with clients.