This role includes:
- Involvement in planning, supervising, and carrying out full end-to-end audits
- Responsibility for achieving agreed budgets and meeting deadlines
- Setting objectives for more junior staff and supervise on site, reviewing their work and coaching on the job where necessary.
Key responsibilities:
- Responsible for auditing large companies including planning, execution and completion.
- Delivery of a complete audit file for manager review.
- Supervision of the audit team on-site, which includes reviewing the work of juniors and assisting junior team members with technical accounting and audit questions.
- Delivery of work carried out under the primary accounting frameworks (UK GAAP, FRS 101, FRS 102 and IFRS).
- Responsibility for identifying and delivering complex areas of audits, with the assistance of the senior manager/director.
- Drafting recommendations to management for improvements to internal controls following audit fieldwork completion.
- Drafting of audit close meeting agenda and points for discussion.
- Close liaison with clients and other stakeholders, often with direct contact at partner and director levels.
- Motivation and encouragement of team.
- Promoting the interests of the firm with all employed by the firm, clients, prospective clients and other third parties.
- Generally, to provide a personal, professional, speedy, and efficient service to the firm's clients.
- Assisting with internal training courses.
- Any other special work as required e.g. company valuations, HMRC investigations & proposal pitches.
- Working alongside current office management to assist and supervise junior team members in their wider career development.
Practice Development:
- Attending client gatherings or client seminars on an ad hoc basis.
- Identifying business development opportunities with clients and progressing these in liaison with partner/director.
- Internal networking to get to know your team and the wider firm including specialist services. Administration
- Using initiative to come up with innovative ideas to improve systems currently in practice with regards to client or staff matters.
Audit Skills and expertise:
- Qualified to ACA/ACCA or internationally recognised chartered accounting qualification
- Experience leading audit teams including group audits
- Experience of substantive and controls based audit testing
- Trained in a top 20 firm
- Technically competent, including solid experience and understanding of UK GAAP and auditing standards
- Practical IFRS experience is desirable but not essential
- High level of personal motivation and initiative
- Excellent communicator - able to get on with clients and motivate teams
- Strong organisational skills - ability to multi-task and prioritise work
- Personable and confident - clients and team members able to relate with you
- Ability to meet deadlines