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Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit Accountant
Securities and Exchange Commission · Posted 53 days ago
About the Role
The Division of Enforcement, Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit ("FRA Unit") is seeking a Staff Accountant (Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit Accountant). As a Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit Accountant you will investigate potential violations of accounting and auditing professional standards, public company financial disclosures, and related provisions of the federal securities laws.
What You'll Do
- →Developing and executing investigative and litigation strategies, including identifying and marshalling relevant evidence, assessing auditor, accountant, and company conduct, and evaluating compliance with relevant professional auditing and accounting standards.
- →Working alongside Division of Enforcement and Unit attorneys to draft subpoenas and document requests; questioning witnesses - including auditors, audit committee members, and company executives - through interviews, testimony, or depositions; analyzing documentary and testimonial evidence to assess potential violations; and preparing litigation-related documents as needed.
- →Preparing high-quality work product demonstrating command of relevant accounting and auditing standards, and the federal securities laws, including using sound judgment to evaluate evidence, identify patterns of audit or accounting failure or disclosure misconduct, and synthesize complex financial and legal information to reach well-supported conclusions.
- →Collaborating effectively with Commission staff, Division attorneys and accountants, both the Commission's and the Division of Enforcement's Offices of the Chief Accountant, and other regulatory bodies, as well as communicating with courts, opposing counsel, and private industry representatives.
- →Managing multiple complex investigations simultaneously, setting priorities, and developing innovative legal strategies to address novel questions of accounting, auditing, and financial disclosure law.
Requirements
- ✓You MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims.
- ✓Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course.
- ✓If you are qualifying for this position by substituting education or training for experience, you must submit a copy of your unofficial transcripts or equivalent by the closing date of the announcement.
- ✓Qualifying education must have been obtained from an accredited college or university recognized by the U.S.
- ✓Department of Education.
- ✓Internal Applicants: OHR will verify education qualifications for internal applicants using documents in the Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF).
- ✓If required transcripts or certificates are not present in your eOPF, you will be required to provide them to OHR.
- ✓If selected, a start date will not be established until official transcripts are received.
- ✓FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs.
- ✓For more information, click here.
- ✓Applicants may also find the following helpful: National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES) is an association of 19 credential evaluation services with admission standards and an enforced code of good practice.
- ✓Association of International Credentials Evaluators (AICE) is an association of 10 credential evaluation services with a board of advisors and an enforced code of ethics.
Personality Fit
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