Justin Grose
Huntington,NY
Summary
Experienced audit professional with accomplished ability to work in a fast paced environment, independently, and as a team member to successfully achieve engagement goals and objectives.
Seeking to maintain full-time position that offers professional challenges utilizing interpersonal skills, excellent time management and problem-solving skills.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Audit Associate
First National Bank Of L.I.
10.2023 - Current
- Executed five departmental internal audits aligned with the audit program. These consist of the Investment Management Division, Administration Functions, Compliance Department & Corporate Governance, Loan Review & Treasury.
- Collaborate with IA senior management daily to tackle questions and concerns about each audit to uphold the adequacy and effectiveness of internal controls over various functions/activities throughout the Bank.
- Assisted in a bank wide system conversion through a pre and post conversion interest rate comparison test, customer account information comparison test and online password help desk.
- Reviewed and Prepared Year-End 2023 Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) 404 testing over New Deposit Setup, Expense Checks, Loan Booking Verification, GL Reconciliation Checklist and Finance Journal Entries.
- Communicated with internal and branch management with follow up questions in a timely manner.
Audit Associate
KPMG
09.2022 - 07.2023
- Experienced 7 different engagement teams for clients in the retail, not-for-profit, higher education, and advertising industries
- Completed substantive procedures from start to finish including areas in equity, cash & cash equivalents, grants & investments, and procurement
- Lead multiple Quarterly and Year-End reviews ensuring all documents provided by the client tied to the appropriate financial statements
- Set-up and reviewed journal entry advanced capabilities portal for multiple quarters leveraging this database to select high risk quarterly journal entries for further client review ensuring the entries were complete and accurate
- Assisted and reviewed the work completed over 75 offshore Global Delivery Center (GDC) requests. These included cash standardization procedures, project plan updates, importing account balances, various lead sheets, investment rollforward, and leases recalculations
- Reviewed and prepared the entire list of Board of Directors minutes throughout the year for 2 engagement teams
Bookkeeper
Lighthouse Court Reporting
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Processed over 5,000 invoices to ensure payments for each case deposition in the months of April 2021 to January 2022
- Created weekly payroll spreadsheets to ensure the correct bi-weekly salary was allocated to our assigned lawyers while improving the processes speed for review by my lead team member
- Followed up with insurance companies to reduce the accounts payable life cycle achieving a 10% decrease in the overall outstanding payments from its original 30% owed
- Created sales reports for multiple line items through Square (for items, reports, transactions, and customer sections)
- Developed an understanding of QuickBooks customer center, A/R aging report, invoicing section, payroll section and developed a foundation on how to create invoices, how to view overdue payments, and what customers were most active
Audit Intern
KPMG
01.2021 - 03.2021
- Performed audit test work: substantive testing, populating samples, vouching lease payments to their respective contracts
- Completed reconciliations for accounts payable, customer advances, accounts receivable, unbilled AR and payroll
- Assisted a year-end network analytic by inputting revenue, severance compensation and other direct labor costs
- Experienced a fast pass environment for 3 different client year-end audit engagement teams
Supervisor
Jonathan Grose Painting Inc.
01.2013 - 08.2019
- Communicated with clients to ensure interior and exterior projects were completed in a satisfactory manner
- Assisted in creating project cost plans and budgets in Excel to reduce unnecessary expenses
Education
Master of Science - Accounting
State University of New York (SUNY) At Oswego
Oswego, NY 05.2022
Bachelor of Science - Public Accounting
State University of New York (SUNY) At Oswego
Oswego, NY05.2021
Skills
- Knowledge of GAAP guidelines
- Experience with SEC filings
- Internal and external auditing
- Actively pursing CPA licensing
- Supervision and leadership
- Interpersonal Communication
- Data Entry
- Confirmationcom
- Automated Routines
- Virtual Audit Room
- Microsoft 360
- DataSnipper
- Adobe including DocuSign
- KPMG Proprietary Software (KCfc and KCW)
Timeline
Audit Associate
First National Bank Of L.I.
10.2023 - Current
Audit Associate
KPMG
09.2022 - 07.2023
Bookkeeper
Lighthouse Court Reporting
01.2021 - 01.2022
Audit Intern
KPMG
01.2021 - 03.2021
Supervisor
Jonathan Grose Painting Inc.
01.2013 - 08.2019
Master of Science - Accounting
State University of New York (SUNY) At Oswego
Bachelor of Science - Public Accounting
State University of New York (SUNY) At Oswego