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EXPERIENCED CANDIDATES
Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd., one of Chicago’s top 25 largest public accounting firms (Crain’s), has a team-oriented, client-focused environment encouraging creativity, initiative and the free flow of ideas. Our diverse client base consists of highly successful, privately-held companies in a variety of industries, as well as not-for-profit organizations and high-net worth individuals and families. We have excellent opportunities for bright, ambitious, entrepreneurial individuals with good business sense and we thank you for your interest in ORBA.
Audit Senior
Position Summary:
The Audit Senior is responsible for overseeing audit, review and compilation engagements and is responsible for resolving most accounting issues that arise during these engagements under the guidance of the Audit Manager and or the Audit Director. The individual will perform some engagements with minimal supervision and will direct staff and instruct them in the work to be performed, review the work completed by the staff and direct necessary revisions.
Essential Job Functions:
- Supervising the work of audit staff including reviewing their work and provide on the job training
- Conduct basic, specialized and complex financial, operational and compliance audits under the direction of the audit director.
- Perform risk assessment prior to the beginning of an audit engagement.
- Prepare the most complex work papers, to adequately document accounting & audit work performed and to support the conclusions reached.
- Prepare draft of financial statements and management letters. Will be expected to wrap up the engagement in a timely manner.
- Perform reviews and compilations
- Report progress of the audit, compilation or review engagement to both Audit Manager and Audit Director regularly
- Perform audit or review procedures as assigned by the Audit Managers or Audit Director
- Conduct research, prepare memorandums and summarize findings
- Demonstrate ability to assume responsibility for supervision of the daily fieldwork of engagements and client contact
- Prepare very complex individual, trust and business tax returns
- Prepare an evaluation of the staff on the engagement at the end of the engagement but give guidance to the staff when necessary during the engagement.
- Perform other miscellaneous duties and special projects as assigned.
Education and Experience:
- B.S. in Accounting or Finance
- CPA preferred
- 3-5 years of progressive accounting & audit experience in public accounting
- Minimum of 1 year leading audits
- Experience preparing tax returns is a huge plus
- Experience with for-profit and non-for-profit clients
Skills:
- Outstanding written, interpersonal and presentation skills
- Excellent analytical, technical, and auditing skills
- Exceptional client service and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain outstanding client relationships
- Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced and results based environment
- Strong leadership, business development, training, coaching and mentoring skills
Benefits:
- Very low overnight travel of between 5 to 10%
- Opportunity to partner daily with Directors and work closely with other staff and clients
- Flexible hours
- Dress for your day attire (jeans in the office and appropriate attire at clients)
- Tuition reimbursement on degrees of Masters in Accounting and Masters in Taxation
- Reimbursement for CPA Review course
- Gym in the building
- Payment of CPE and professional membership costs
- Mentoring and Leadership Development Programs
- Fun firm sponsored social events
- Generous paid time off and holiday time
- 15% referral fee for bringing in new clients
- Competitive compensation package and broad range of insurance programs
Apply Now
Tax Senior
Position Summary:
Responsible for organizing and coordinating clients’ tax data for the accurate, timely completion of individual tax returns and all levels of corporate, partnership, S-corp and trust tax returns.
Essential Job Functions:
- Review tax information submitted by client for completeness; meet/call clients with questions
- Possess knowledge of tax regulations in order to answer clients’ questions
- Prepare individual, corporate, partnership, trust and S-corp tax returns of various complexities
- Prepare amended returns of any variety and complexity
- Prepare personal tax projections
- Respond to tax notices of any sort
- Perform tax research projects
- Prepare employee benefit plan tax returns, carryback returns for NOL’s and payroll tax returns
- Make adjusting entries and complete trial balances in order to prepare a tax return.
- Maintain a good understanding of depreciation and depreciation computer software package in order to set up clients and read and understand depreciation reports
- Prepare tax accruals as may be required in preparing corporate tax returns
- Work with confidential client matters
- Begin to participate in firm’s practice development efforts through involvement with referral sources, community and industry activities
- Perform other duties as may be assigned
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required
- Minimum of 2 years of tax experience
- Hold current CPA license or has passed parts of the CPA exam
- Experience preparing individual, corporate and partnership tax returns is required
- Experience preparing trusts, 990s and 5500s are a plus
- Multi-state tax experience is a plus
Skills:
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, in particular Excel and Word
- Proficiency with GoSystem or ProSystem required
- Ability to demonstrate sound judgment and analyzing problems logically and comprehensively, distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant information
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment as well as independently
- Ability to handle sensitive/confidential matters in a tactful and discreet manner
- Ability to interface with a variety of management levels
Benefits:
- Opportunity to partner daily with Directors and work closely with other staff and clients
- Dress for your day attire (jeans in the office and appropriate attire at clients)
- Tuition reimbursement on degrees of Masters in Accounting and Masters in Taxation
- Reimbursement for CPA Review course
- Gym in the building
- Payment of CPE and professional membership costs
- Mentoring and Leadership Development Programs
- Fun firm sponsored social events
- Generous paid time off and holiday time
- 15% referral fee for bringing in new clients
- Competitive compensation package and broad range of insurance programs
Apply Now
Systems / Network Administrator
Certifications:
One of the following IT Industry certifications is required.
- Microsoft MCSA or better | VMware VCA or better | Cisco CCNA or better
Responsibilities:
Assist with server / network maintenance, upgrades, add/change/deletes, patching, monitoring, troubleshooting and remediation.
Support ORBA’s software and server systems on premise and in the cloud.
Keep ORBA’s endpoints up to date, free of vulnerabilities, patched and virus free.
Help with tickets escalated up the chain when the Help Desk cannot resolve them.
Documenting technical processes and procedures.
Periodic after-hours work may be required to run patches or deploy software.
Required:
Minimum 3 years in a Server / Network Administrator level position.
Minimum 3 year(s) of hands-on experience with Microsoft Server 2012 R2 or later in a production environment including: AD, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Certificate Services, NPS, IIS, File (NTFS including Permissions), Print, ADFS, KMS/Volume Activation, Farmed Remote Desktop Services, NLB / Failover Clustered Resources. ORBA runs a large amount of the Microsoft Server Roles and Features.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience with VMware vSphere 5.5 or later (ESXi) in a production environment including familiarity with concepts like esxtop, CPU Ready, vCenter, Standard Switch, vMotion, multipath I/O, thin/thick provisioning, etc. If you are familiar with VMware Horizon View (VDI) that would be very helpful.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience with an iSCSI SAN in a production environment including familiarity with LUNs, pools, tiering, caching, replication, snapshots, etc.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience utilizing networking concepts like Subnets, VLANs, Firewall Rules and Zones, ACLs, DMZ, VPN.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience using a Package deployment tool/configuration manager (PDQDeploy / SCCM, etc.) Experience using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or another Desktop Image Deployment Tool.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience running, testing, monitoring and configuring server backups and completing file, VMDK/VMX, Active Directory Object, SQL Object and other granular restores. Awareness of Disaster Recovery concepts.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2012+
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience maintaining / configuring Microsoft Office 365 or Exchange 2013/2016.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience maintaining a Voice over IP Telephone System (VoIP) i.e. Cisco Unified Call Manager / Cisco Business 6000 / Cisco Jabber.
We Use The Following Technology – Experience is Nice to Have!
HPE Servers, Nimble Storage SAN Arrays, VMware ESXi 6.5, VMware Horizon 7, Windows 10 Enterprise, Microsoft Server 2016 Datacenter, Microsoft Office 365, Mimecast Spam and Virus, Ivanti Shavlik Patch, Cisco / Cisco Nexus / Cisco Meraki / CUCM (Route/Switch/Wireless/Phone), Next-Gen Firewalls, LogRhythm SIEM, VEEAM Backup and Recovery / Disaster Recovery, OKTA SSO / 2-Factor Authentication, CrowdStrike Next-Gen Antivirus, Goverlan RMM Tool, PRTG Network Monitor, Avecto DefendPoint Privileged Access Manager, Rapid7 InsightVM Vulnerability Manager, SmartDeploy, Thomson Reuters GoSystem Tax Preparation Software, Thomson Reuters GoFileRoom Document Management System, Thomson Reuters AdvanceFlow / Checkpoint Engage, CCH ProSystem fx Practice Management, Atlassian JIRA + Confluence, Intuit QuickBooks, ContactEase
Apply Now
Accounting Manager for Cloud CFO Services
Position Summary:
The Accounting Manager will work closely with assigned small business clients and be a key resource for them. You get to meet each month in-person or via video conference with entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world! ORBA Cloud CFO Services is based in downtown Chicago located in NBC Tower.
Essential Job Functions:
This will be a client-facing role, so you must be good at interacting with people. Duties and tasks include:
- Teach and mentor Associates to help them learn key accounting, budgeting, and forecasting concepts
- Create a high-touch, trusting relationship with your assigned clients
- Review monthly client financials prepared by Associates
- Ensure all balance sheet account reconciliations are in order and be able to dig in and find problems when they’re not
- Explain variances to prior periods and budgets
- Update cash flow projections and ensure your clients understand their cash position and future
- Be a key internal accounting resource for our team when they have questions about other clients.
Education and Experience:
- Prior experience as an Accounting Manager/Controller
- Five plus years of experience
- Proficiency in QuickBooks
- Proficiency in Excel.
Skills:
- Outstanding written, interpersonal and presentation skills
- Excellent analytical, technical, and auditing skills
- Exceptional client service and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain outstanding client relationships
- Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced and results based environment
- Strong leadership, business development, training, coaching and mentoring skills
Benefits:
- Opportunity to partner daily with Directors and work closely with other staff and clients
- Dress for your day attire (jeans in the office and appropriate attire at clients)
- Tuition reimbursement on degrees of Masters in Accounting and Masters in Taxation
- Reimbursement for CPA Review course
- Payment of CPE and professional membership costs
- Fun firm sponsored social events
- Generous paid time off and holiday time
- 15% referral fee for bringing in new clients
- Competitive compensation package and broad range of insurance programs
About Us:
ORBA is a full-service audit, tax and consulting firm dedicated to helping clients achieve their goals and build success since 1977. ORBA specializes in accounting, audit, and federal, state and local tax planning and compliance for privately-held businesses and not-for-profit organizations across all industries.
As “The Entrepreneur’s CFO,” ORBA’s Cloud CFO Services offer full-service, cloud-based bookkeeping, accounting and high-level strategic financial advice to entrepreneurs and businesses. We work with growing companies that want to change the world.
Apply Now
To apply, contact:
Sarah Wonnell Email: swonnell@orba.com
Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. Web: www.orba.com
NBC Tower – Suite 1500
455 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, IL 60611
Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, gender, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.
- TOP 100FIRMS TO WATCHAccounting Today's 2014-2018 Rankings
- TOPworkplaceChicago Tribune 2010-2016 Award
- over40 yearsOf High Performing Service To Clients In Chicago & Beyond
EXPERIENCED CANDIDATES
Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd., one of Chicago’s top 25 largest public accounting firms (Crain’s), has a team-oriented, client-focused environment encouraging creativity, initiative and the free flow of ideas. Our diverse client base consists of highly successful, privately-held companies in a variety of industries, as well as not-for-profit organizations and high-net worth individuals and families. We have excellent opportunities for bright, ambitious, entrepreneurial individuals with good business sense and we thank you for your interest in ORBA.
Audit Senior
Position Summary:
The Audit Senior is responsible for overseeing audit, review and compilation engagements and is responsible for resolving most accounting issues that arise during these engagements under the guidance of the Audit Manager and or the Audit Director. The individual will perform some engagements with minimal supervision and will direct staff and instruct them in the work to be performed, review the work completed by the staff and direct necessary revisions.
Essential Job Functions:
- Supervising the work of audit staff including reviewing their work and provide on the job training
- Conduct basic, specialized and complex financial, operational and compliance audits under the direction of the audit director.
- Perform risk assessment prior to the beginning of an audit engagement.
- Prepare the most complex work papers, to adequately document accounting & audit work performed and to support the conclusions reached.
- Prepare draft of financial statements and management letters. Will be expected to wrap up the engagement in a timely manner.
- Perform reviews and compilations
- Report progress of the audit, compilation or review engagement to both Audit Manager and Audit Director regularly
- Perform audit or review procedures as assigned by the Audit Managers or Audit Director
- Conduct research, prepare memorandums and summarize findings
- Demonstrate ability to assume responsibility for supervision of the daily fieldwork of engagements and client contact
- Prepare very complex individual, trust and business tax returns
- Prepare an evaluation of the staff on the engagement at the end of the engagement but give guidance to the staff when necessary during the engagement.
- Perform other miscellaneous duties and special projects as assigned.
Education and Experience:
- B.S. in Accounting or Finance
- CPA preferred
- 3-5 years of progressive accounting & audit experience in public accounting
- Minimum of 1 year leading audits
- Experience preparing tax returns is a huge plus
- Experience with for-profit and non-for-profit clients
Skills:
- Outstanding written, interpersonal and presentation skills
- Excellent analytical, technical, and auditing skills
- Exceptional client service and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain outstanding client relationships
- Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced and results based environment
- Strong leadership, business development, training, coaching and mentoring skills
Benefits:
- Very low overnight travel of between 5 to 10%
- Opportunity to partner daily with Directors and work closely with other staff and clients
- Flexible hours
- Dress for your day attire (jeans in the office and appropriate attire at clients)
- Tuition reimbursement on degrees of Masters in Accounting and Masters in Taxation
- Reimbursement for CPA Review course
- Gym in the building
- Payment of CPE and professional membership costs
- Mentoring and Leadership Development Programs
- Fun firm sponsored social events
- Generous paid time off and holiday time
- 15% referral fee for bringing in new clients
- Competitive compensation package and broad range of insurance programs
Apply Now
Tax Senior
Position Summary:
Responsible for organizing and coordinating clients’ tax data for the accurate, timely completion of individual tax returns and all levels of corporate, partnership, S-corp and trust tax returns.
Essential Job Functions:
- Review tax information submitted by client for completeness; meet/call clients with questions
- Possess knowledge of tax regulations in order to answer clients’ questions
- Prepare individual, corporate, partnership, trust and S-corp tax returns of various complexities
- Prepare amended returns of any variety and complexity
- Prepare personal tax projections
- Respond to tax notices of any sort
- Perform tax research projects
- Prepare employee benefit plan tax returns, carryback returns for NOL’s and payroll tax returns
- Make adjusting entries and complete trial balances in order to prepare a tax return.
- Maintain a good understanding of depreciation and depreciation computer software package in order to set up clients and read and understand depreciation reports
- Prepare tax accruals as may be required in preparing corporate tax returns
- Work with confidential client matters
- Begin to participate in firm’s practice development efforts through involvement with referral sources, community and industry activities
- Perform other duties as may be assigned
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting required
- Minimum of 2 years of tax experience
- Hold current CPA license or has passed parts of the CPA exam
- Experience preparing individual, corporate and partnership tax returns is required
- Experience preparing trusts, 990s and 5500s are a plus
- Multi-state tax experience is a plus
Skills:
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, in particular Excel and Word
- Proficiency with GoSystem or ProSystem required
- Ability to demonstrate sound judgment and analyzing problems logically and comprehensively, distinguishing between relevant and irrelevant information
- Ability to work effectively in a team environment as well as independently
- Ability to handle sensitive/confidential matters in a tactful and discreet manner
- Ability to interface with a variety of management levels
Benefits:
- Opportunity to partner daily with Directors and work closely with other staff and clients
- Dress for your day attire (jeans in the office and appropriate attire at clients)
- Tuition reimbursement on degrees of Masters in Accounting and Masters in Taxation
- Reimbursement for CPA Review course
- Gym in the building
- Payment of CPE and professional membership costs
- Mentoring and Leadership Development Programs
- Fun firm sponsored social events
- Generous paid time off and holiday time
- 15% referral fee for bringing in new clients
- Competitive compensation package and broad range of insurance programs
Apply Now
Systems / Network Administrator
Certifications:
One of the following IT Industry certifications is required.
- Microsoft MCSA or better | VMware VCA or better | Cisco CCNA or better
Responsibilities:
Assist with server / network maintenance, upgrades, add/change/deletes, patching, monitoring, troubleshooting and remediation.
Support ORBA’s software and server systems on premise and in the cloud.
Keep ORBA’s endpoints up to date, free of vulnerabilities, patched and virus free.
Help with tickets escalated up the chain when the Help Desk cannot resolve them.
Documenting technical processes and procedures.
Periodic after-hours work may be required to run patches or deploy software.
Required:
Minimum 3 years in a Server / Network Administrator level position.
Minimum 3 year(s) of hands-on experience with Microsoft Server 2012 R2 or later in a production environment including: AD, DNS, DHCP, Group Policy, Certificate Services, NPS, IIS, File (NTFS including Permissions), Print, ADFS, KMS/Volume Activation, Farmed Remote Desktop Services, NLB / Failover Clustered Resources. ORBA runs a large amount of the Microsoft Server Roles and Features.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience with VMware vSphere 5.5 or later (ESXi) in a production environment including familiarity with concepts like esxtop, CPU Ready, vCenter, Standard Switch, vMotion, multipath I/O, thin/thick provisioning, etc. If you are familiar with VMware Horizon View (VDI) that would be very helpful.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience with an iSCSI SAN in a production environment including familiarity with LUNs, pools, tiering, caching, replication, snapshots, etc.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience utilizing networking concepts like Subnets, VLANs, Firewall Rules and Zones, ACLs, DMZ, VPN.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience using a Package deployment tool/configuration manager (PDQDeploy / SCCM, etc.) Experience using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit or another Desktop Image Deployment Tool.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience running, testing, monitoring and configuring server backups and completing file, VMDK/VMX, Active Directory Object, SQL Object and other granular restores. Awareness of Disaster Recovery concepts.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience with Microsoft SQL Server 2012+
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience maintaining / configuring Microsoft Office 365 or Exchange 2013/2016.
Minimum 2 year(s) of hands-on experience maintaining a Voice over IP Telephone System (VoIP) i.e. Cisco Unified Call Manager / Cisco Business 6000 / Cisco Jabber.
We Use The Following Technology – Experience is Nice to Have!
HPE Servers, Nimble Storage SAN Arrays, VMware ESXi 6.5, VMware Horizon 7, Windows 10 Enterprise, Microsoft Server 2016 Datacenter, Microsoft Office 365, Mimecast Spam and Virus, Ivanti Shavlik Patch, Cisco / Cisco Nexus / Cisco Meraki / CUCM (Route/Switch/Wireless/Phone), Next-Gen Firewalls, LogRhythm SIEM, VEEAM Backup and Recovery / Disaster Recovery, OKTA SSO / 2-Factor Authentication, CrowdStrike Next-Gen Antivirus, Goverlan RMM Tool, PRTG Network Monitor, Avecto DefendPoint Privileged Access Manager, Rapid7 InsightVM Vulnerability Manager, SmartDeploy, Thomson Reuters GoSystem Tax Preparation Software, Thomson Reuters GoFileRoom Document Management System, Thomson Reuters AdvanceFlow / Checkpoint Engage, CCH ProSystem fx Practice Management, Atlassian JIRA + Confluence, Intuit QuickBooks, ContactEase
Apply Now
Accounting Manager for Cloud CFO Services
Position Summary:
The Accounting Manager will work closely with assigned small business clients and be a key resource for them. You get to meet each month in-person or via video conference with entrepreneurs who are trying to change the world! ORBA Cloud CFO Services is based in downtown Chicago located in NBC Tower.
Essential Job Functions:
This will be a client-facing role, so you must be good at interacting with people. Duties and tasks include:
- Teach and mentor Associates to help them learn key accounting, budgeting, and forecasting concepts
- Create a high-touch, trusting relationship with your assigned clients
- Review monthly client financials prepared by Associates
- Ensure all balance sheet account reconciliations are in order and be able to dig in and find problems when they’re not
- Explain variances to prior periods and budgets
- Update cash flow projections and ensure your clients understand their cash position and future
- Be a key internal accounting resource for our team when they have questions about other clients.
Education and Experience:
- Prior experience as an Accounting Manager/Controller
- Five plus years of experience
- Proficiency in QuickBooks
- Proficiency in Excel.
Skills:
- Outstanding written, interpersonal and presentation skills
- Excellent analytical, technical, and auditing skills
- Exceptional client service and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to develop and maintain outstanding client relationships
- Ability to manage multiple engagements and competing priorities in a rapidly growing, fast-paced and results based environment
- Strong leadership, business development, training, coaching and mentoring skills
Benefits:
- Opportunity to partner daily with Directors and work closely with other staff and clients
- Dress for your day attire (jeans in the office and appropriate attire at clients)
- Tuition reimbursement on degrees of Masters in Accounting and Masters in Taxation
- Reimbursement for CPA Review course
- Payment of CPE and professional membership costs
- Fun firm sponsored social events
- Generous paid time off and holiday time
- 15% referral fee for bringing in new clients
- Competitive compensation package and broad range of insurance programs
About Us:
ORBA is a full-service audit, tax and consulting firm dedicated to helping clients achieve their goals and build success since 1977. ORBA specializes in accounting, audit, and federal, state and local tax planning and compliance for privately-held businesses and not-for-profit organizations across all industries.
As “The Entrepreneur’s CFO,” ORBA’s Cloud CFO Services offer full-service, cloud-based bookkeeping, accounting and high-level strategic financial advice to entrepreneurs and businesses. We work with growing companies that want to change the world.
Apply Now
To apply, contact:
Sarah Wonnell Email: swonnell@orba.com
Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. Web: www.orba.com
NBC Tower – Suite 1500
455 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, IL 60611
Ostrow Reisin Berk & Abrams, Ltd. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, age, sex, gender, disability or any other characteristic protected by law.
- TOP 100FIRMS TO WATCHAccounting Today's 2014-2018 Rankings
- TOPworkplaceChicago Tribune 2010-2016 Award
- over40 yearsOf High Performing Service To Clients In Chicago & Beyond