Audit and Accounts Senior Manager
Ambition is partnering with one of the UK's most established firms to find a Senior Audit and Accounts Manager. This firm has been growing significantly, recently securing several notable clients. As an accredited Investor in People, they have a robust succession planning structure to help you achieve your goals while ensuring your team is well-supported to meet high standards.
Key Benefits:
- Access to a national network of offices and one of the largest global networks
- Comprehensive range of financial and business strategy services for clients
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
Purpose of the Role:
- Manage a portfolio of clients.
- Maximise the fee income of the portfolio.
- Plan, control, and review client work to ensure jobs are completed as efficiently and effectively as possible by allocating available resources.
- Hold pre-audit meetings with clients, where appropriate, to establish events that have impacted the business and any areas needing particular attention.
- Prepare a time budget for each assignment, ensuring it is set at a level that enables the office to make a profit, considering the level of fees and other non-audit work included within that fee.
- Ensure a detailed audit or accounts planning memorandum is completed by the senior, with the information needed to approach the audit work efficiently. This includes details of any potential anomalies or difficulties encountered during previous audits.
- Brief audit or accounts staff on the client and the nature of its business, ensuring the most cost-effective approach to the job is clearly communicated. Conduct debriefs and provide feedback at the end of assignments.
- Review all work received as soon as possible, ensuring any issues arising are referred back to the audit staff for completion before any outstanding issues are brought to the Partner's attention.
- Ensure files are complete and that audit or accounts work is sufficient to enable the Partner to form an opinion on the accounts, balancing cost and benefit.
- Monitor work in progress on all jobs within the portfolio, communicating any potential problems and write-offs to the Partner on a timely basis.
- Ensure all hours worked on any client are recorded correctly, providing a true reflection of the job's profitability.
- Prepare fee schedules and bills for Partner review and approval, explaining any extra charges and identifying and explaining any write-offs or profits.
- Draft all management letters, finalising accounts, letters of engagement, etc.
- Attend client meetings, where appropriate.
- Ensure trainees are allocated a variety of jobs to provide a broad range of training and maximise their experience.
- Complete six-monthly appraisals and sign off training records for all allocated staff, ensuring these are completed to develop staff and enhance their effectiveness.
- Complete staff review forms after each job, identifying areas needing further development and providing feedback to ensure improved future performance.
- Deal with day-to-day staff issues, including holidays, courses, conflicts, quality of work, motivation, and monitoring chargeable and non-chargeable hours.
- Handle specific office responsibilities, such as technical contact, specific technical area expert, office accounts, client bank accounts, IT contact, marketing committee, client care committee, and maintenance of the office work planner.
- Identify and target new clients.
- Undertake ad-hoc project work, which may include compliance or value-added services.
- Be involved in tenders and presentations.
- Decide which staff and at what level should be allocated to an assignment.
- Set the budget for individual jobs.
- Recommend to the Partner the fee to quote a client for a job.
- Once the job is completed, decide what to bill above the original quote and what to write off.
- Make decisions on the treatment of technical issues.
- Refer any contentious issues to the Partner.
- Decide whether to remain on-site if the client is not ready.
Qualifications and Skills:
- Fully qualified ACA/ACCA or equivalent with a minimum of 3 years post-qualification experience
- Recent, up-to-date experience in external audit, accounts, and general practice in the UK
- Right to work in the UK (sponsorship not available)
- Desirable: Exposure to corporate tax
- Experience working with OMBs and clients across various industries
Benefits:
- Genuine work-life balance
- 33 days holiday, including bank holidays
- Option to buy up to 5 additional days
- Bonus scheme
- Car lease scheme
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