Audit/Assurance Senior Associate
Cedar Rapids, IAFull-timePosted 1w agoStill listed today
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Job overview
CLA is seeking an Audit Senior to join its Iowa team in Cedar Rapids or Des Moines. The role plans, leads, and executes assurance engagements, works closely with clients, and prepares financial statements and related correspondence. It also assesses internal controls, supports team development, collaborates with managers and principals, and builds client relationships. A bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related field and two years of relevant audit experience are required; CPA exam eligibility is preferred.
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Full job description
CLA is a top 10 national professional services firm where our purpose is to create opportunities every day, for our clients, our people, and our communities through industry-focused wealth advisory, digital, audit, tax, consulting, and outsourcing services. Even with more than 8,500 people, 130 U.S. locations, and a global reach, we promise to know you and help you.
CLA is dedicated to building a culture that invites different beliefs and perspectives to the table, so we can truly know and help our clients, communities, and each other.
CLA is currently seeking an Audit Senior to work with our team in Iowa. Locations include Cedar Rapids and Des Moines.
How you’ll create opportunities in this Audit Senior role:
- Plan, lead, and execute Assurance engagements to provide excellent client service.
- Working closely with clients and decision makers while performing a wide range of assurance procedures.
- Preparing all necessary financial statement and related disclosures and reportable condition correspondence letters
- Assessing the design and implementation of internal controls
- Schedule, delegate, and train team members to help them build inspired careers.
- Collaborate with managers/principals to ensure effective communication and service delivery.
- Get the opportunity to work with many great clients.
- Develop and maintain effective client relationships.
What you will need:
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, or related field required.
- Eligible to sit for CPA exam preferred.
- 2 years of relevant audit experience required.
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Wellness at CLA To support our CLA family members, we focus on their physical, financial, social, and emotional well-being and offer comprehensive benefit options that include health, dental, vision, 401k and much more.
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How this job compares
Set against the 944 open Audit jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$96–149K/yr658 salary ranges
- US median$30–48/hr58 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 944 open Audit jobs across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience — less than three in four Audit postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 842 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a bachelor's degree; 575 of the 944 open Audit jobs (61%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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