employee benefits

Our goal is to be competitive with other professional service firms, offering a robust package of employee benefits that meet the needs of all our team members. Young staff, just graduating, are saving for a first home, paying off college loans, and looking forward to future growth. As our employees grow and mature their financial needs change just as their professional approach evolves. We take this into consideration as we continue to review and adapt our approach to benefits, which includes experimenting with new summer hours or adding other benefits as they are suggested.

We are proud to present the following distinctive advantages ~

• Competitive compensation
• Substantial benefits package, with features such as:
  • Medical Insurance
  • Prescription Plan
  • 401(k) Plan
  • Life Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Long term Disability Insurance
  • Medical and Dependant Care Flexible Spending
  • Cash payout portion of unused PTO (with balance going into a Family and Medical leave bank)
  • Various Employee Discount Programs and Amenities
• Tuition reimbursement
• "Business Casual" dress policy year-round
• A chance to specialize in a functional or industry niche
• Individual attention including a mentoring program and a "buddy" system
• Participation in incentive bonus plans such as:
  • New business referrals
  • New employee placement bonuses
• A commitment to each person's success
• A unique professional training program
• Condensed summer work week options

We are confident that you will easily see that we provide excellent benefits that reflect the firm’s over all commitment to our staff. The range of advantages address the goals of every employee, for every stage of their own professional life cycle.

Good training is key to your success

We are proud of our low staff turnover and we attribute this to our sincere commitment to staff development, focusing our efforts on both the professional and personal growth of our team. We have implemented two unique programs that have enabled us to build a strong culture that both nurtures and rewards our employees.

The first is Performance and Career Excellence (PACE), a comprehensive and cohesive development process that incorporates two key building blocks of professional success – competencies and contributions - with a natural annual performance cycle. Competencies and contributions work together to build an individual’s performance. Competencies are the enduring traits or characteristics of an individual that help determine job performance while contributions are performance results achieved when one applies his/her competencies. During the performance cycle, our staff sets annual goals with their Development Advisors, receives timely informal feedback, receives formal feedback on every job over 40 hours, checks in with the Development Advisors during mid-year, and receives a formal year-end evaluation. Click here to download the PACE circle, illustrating the fundamentals of this exciting program (downloads a Word document).

The second initiative is Retaining Employees through Active Involvement Now (RETAIN), a continuous improvement process focused on staff retention. It is a process that helps us better understand the motivations and needs of employees and develop an action plan for addressing any retention issues that are identified. The goal of RETAIN is to help us proactively diagnose and address issues that impact staff satisfaction and morale.

Our staff benefits from excellent training opportunities – internal and external as well as local and national - in scope. To accomplish this staff participates in professional development programs offered by the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Institution for Certified Public Accountants, and other related sources. We also take advantage of the training programs that are available through our membership with PKF International. Please feel free to click here to download the PKF training module (downloads a PDF document).

If you want to get some objective opinions, we recommend you ask business owners, the NJSCPA, your professors and other community leaders what they know about Sobel & Co. You will discover that we are a firm that is well-respected at every level. But more than that, you will find out that we are a firm that has figured out how to combine a friendly, family atmosphere with a strong professional approach, a commitment to our employees and a passion for client care.

Life as an Intern at Sobel

To create a world class internship program, we invited accounting students from colleges across New Jersey to a fact-finding focus group. What we learned was that students want an opportunity to learn, grow, and explore while having a good time and working on some meaningful projects.

We heard them, and we responded!

Our interns have fun while learning on the job. From Day One they have a “buddy” who serves as an informal mentor and guide, so they are comfortable right from the start. Every intern has the opportunity to:
• Attend Lunch ‘N Learn programs designed just for them.
• Participate in social networking events.
• Meet regularly with the firm’s senior partners.
• Work in teams on a special project. After conducting the necessary research, the team works on a final presentation.

Sobel & Co. interns spend time on client engagements, working side by side with our staff, supervisors and managers as they learn new technical skills first hand and have the chance to interact with clients. We are pleased to combine having fun with a serious approach to a value-added professional experience.

Here is what our interns tell us:

"Being a high-level college student, working at Sobel & Co. has truly been an enriching experience that has taken my accounting and business knowledge to another level. Having such a talented and friendly staff that trusted me to interact with actual clients allowed me to put my education into practical use. I feel extremely confident heading into the business world."
- Rocco Ignozza, Monmouth University – Senior

"As a college student who has never worked in an accounting firm before, I had no idea what to expect. What makes Sobel stand out from the rest are the people that you see every day. Everyone here went out of their way to make my experience here as productive and enjoyable as possible, from the entry level staff right up to the partners. I learned a great deal and reaffirmed my goal of ultimately becoming a CPA and working in a firm just like Sobel."
- Alex Gordon, Rowan University – Junior

Questions? Click here to contact Molly Lockwood, Director of Human Resources.