Audit Letter Analyst

Company: Cooley LLP
Location: Washington
Posted on: June 1, 2025

Job Description:

Cooley is seeking an Audit Letter Analyst to join the Risk & Compliance team.Position summary: The Audit Letter Analyst will work with attorneys to respond to and monitor audit letter requests for the firm's clients. The Analyst will oversee the process ensuring all requests are completed in a timely manner and in compliance with ABA guidelines and accordance with firm policies. Specific duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:Position responsibilities:

• Review incoming audit letter requests to ensure all are made in accordance with ABA guidelines and firm policies and procedures
• Review client files for prior responses and/or engagement letters for audit checklist review
• Conduct attorney polls and track attorney responses and disclosures
• Draft audit letter responses for year-end letters and/or update letters for attorney review
• Assemble necessary documentation supporting audit letter responses
• Work with audit letter reviewer, responsible partner and Audit Letter Committee and others as needed to ensure responses satisfy firm policies, ABA guidelines, and any other applicable requirements
• Coordinate delivery of response to auditors
• Assist Audit Letter Committee with annual training of audit letter responses for attorneys
• Assist Audit Letter Committee with updating audit letter response policies and procedures
• Ensure accurate and timely entry of billable and non-billable time and review IntApp entries prior to month-end closing
• All other duties as assigned or requiredSkills and experience:Required:
  • Available to work overtime, as required
  • After orientation at Cooley LLP, exhibit proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite, iManage and other firm applications
  • 3+ years direct experience receiving, responding to and tracking audit lettersPreferred:
    • Bachelor's Degree
    • Prior experience as a legal secretary, paralegal, conflicts or information services related experience
    • Experience working in a law firm
    • Strong organizational skills with attention to detail
    • Excellent written and oral communication skills
    • Good judgment with strong analytical and interpretation skills
    • Ability to work independently with little or no supervision
    • Ability to work within a team and collaborate
    • Strong ability to prioritize, juggle multiple tasks and manage shifting priorities
    • High degree of professionalismCooley LLP offers a competitive compensation and excellent benefits program. EOE.The expected hourly pay range for this position with a work schedule of 40 hours per week is $35.00 - $47.00 ($72,800.00 - $97,760.00 annually). Please note that final offer amount will be dependent on geographic location, applicable experience and skillset of the candidate.We offer a full range of elective benefits including medical, health savings account (with applicable medical plan), dental, vision, health and/or dependent care flexible spending accounts, pre-tax commuter benefits, life insurance, AD&D, long-term care coverage, backup care for children and/or adults and other parental support benefits. In addition to elective benefit options, benefited employees receive firm-paid life insurance, AD&D, LTD, short term medical benefits as well as 20 days of Paid Time Off ("PTO") and 10 paid holidays each year. We provide generous parental leave and fertility benefits. New employees will attend a detailed benefit orientation to learn more about our many benefits and resources.About UsWelcome to Cooley. We are counselors, strategists and advocates for today's and tomorrow's leaders of the business economy. We seek to meet the evolving needs of our clients by building a community of professionals of the highest caliber who share our vision and embrace our values.Working at Cooley provides an opportunity to work in an environment of collaboration, challenge and reward. We are all part of one firm dedicated to maintaining a diverse workplace that values and celebrates differences-from the way we relate to and support each other, to the way we work together to meet the needs of our clients. It is the unique abilities and perspectives of every individual at Cooley that creates a rewarding workplace.For Cooley, this means offering all employees the tools, training and mentoring they need to succeed. It enables every individual to balance work and family obligations. It looks beyond the Firm's four walls, fostering community involvement. It includes becoming leaders and contributors in our communities.Our cooperative spirit is the trademark of the Cooley Culture and every employee in every department is instrumental to the success of the Firm. We invite you to take a look at our open positions.
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