Audit Partner Quality Control

Audit Partner Quality Control at BPM LLP

BPM is a firm where caring and community are central to our company's DNA, always striving for excellence and driven by an innovative spirit. As a senior leader within BPM’s Assurance practice, you will provide strategic oversight of the firm’s audit quality management system, championing a culture of audit excellence. You will play a crucial role in shaping the firm’s long-term quality strategy, influencing audit methodology, and guiding the development of future leaders.

Working with BPM means leveraging your experiences, broadening your skills, and reaching your full potential both professionally and personally, all while making a positive impact on your clients, colleagues, and communities. Our shared entrepreneurial spirit encourages us to approach challenges with fresh perspectives. Our commitment to people ensures BPM is a place where everyone feels welcome, valued, and part of something greater. Because People Matter.

What you get:

• Total rewards package: featuring flexible work arrangements, personalized benefit structures, and financial compensation options that provide choice and flexibility.
• Well-being resources: including an interactive wellness platform with incentives, an employee assistance program, mental health resources, and Colleague Resource Groups (CRGs).
• Balance & flexibility: 14 Firm Holidays (including 2 floating), Flex PTO, paid family leave, winter break, summer hours, and remote work options, enabling you to balance professional challenges with personal well-being.
• Professional development opportunities: BPM cultivates a strong learning culture focused on continuous leadership development, offering executive coaching and access to BPM University—our internal learning platform with live classes, workshops, and seminars supporting technical excellence, people leadership, and firm-wide impact.

Who is successful at BPM:

• Caring people who prioritize others.
• Self-starters who embody the BPM entrepreneurial spirit.
• Authentic individuals with diverse points of view.
• Lifelong learners with a drive to excel.
• Resilient people who consistently rise to the occasion.

Responsibilities

• Provide firmwide leadership over quality management in accordance with PCAOB, AICPA, international standards, firm policies, and relevant state board of accountancy and SEC regulations.
• Oversee quality management systems, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with APLR for the firm’s international operations, growth, and the international BPM Network.
• Lead the quality control team performing internal inspection processes, including pre-issuance and post-issuance reviews, to assess compliance with professional standards and firm methodology.
• Evaluate audit execution quality, identify systemic issues, and recommend corrective actions to enhance audit quality and consistency.
• Lead root-cause analyses of audit deficiencies and oversee remediation plans, including policy updates, training initiatives, and process improvements.
• Serve as a key liaison for external regulatory inspections (e.g., PCAOB, peer review), managing preparation, coordination, developing responses to findings, and handling periodic reporting requirements.
• Provide consultative guidance to engagement teams on complex or high-risk audit matters, including independence questions.
• Review and approve audit quality-related policies, procedures, and guidance in collaboration with the Quality Control committee and Audit Methodology leadership.
• Report audit quality trends, inspection results, and remediation progress to firm leadership and governance committees.
• Promote a culture of audit quality, professional skepticism, and accountability across the assurance practice.
• Mentor and develop assurance team members related to audit quality.

Requirements

• CPA license required; advanced credentials or certifications are a plus.
• Minimum of 12–15+ years of public accounting audit experience, including senior leadership responsibility.
• Prior experience in audit quality control, internal inspection, professional practice, or regulatory review roles.
• Deep knowledge of PCAOB and AICPA standards, quality control frameworks, and inspection processes; international compliance exposure preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to independently assess audit quality and exercise sound professional judgment on complex technical matters.
• Strong leadership presence with the ability to influence senior partners and firm leadership.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including experience communicating inspection results and recommendations at the executive level.
• Proven ability to balance independence with collaboration in a firmwide oversight role.
• High level of integrity, discretion, and commitment to quality and professional standards, laws and regulations.

This position is not eligible for third-party or agency submissions. We will not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or staffing agencies.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.

Key skills/competency

• Audit Quality Management
• PCAOB Standards
• AICPA Standards
• SEC Regulations
• Internal Inspection Processes
• Regulatory Compliance
• Audit Methodology
• Leadership & Mentorship
• Professional Skepticism
• Risk Management