Sewell Wallis are working with an advanced Top 20 firm of Chartered Accountants, who are looking to appoint an Audit Senior at their offices in Nottingham. This role can be for someone who is looking for full-time or part-time.
This practice has a main focus on culture and their vision is to help you prosper throughout your career with them.
Everyone from the Partners and people at this firm helps to provide a range of audit, taxation and business advisory services to a varied portfolio of clients, predominantly Owner-Managed Businesses. As well as the affairs of some large businesses with much more complex, technical requirements.
What you will be doing:
- Acting as the lead senior on audits, reporting to the audit manager;
- Being the first point of contact for the client whilst on-site and ensuring any queries are dealt with promptly even after the fieldwork has ended;
- Responsibility for developing and finalising the audit plan, identifying key audit risks based on the background knowledge, thorough research, preliminary results and discussions with the client, and ensuring appropriate work is planned to address these;
- Setting and monitoring of budgets, undertaking execution of the fieldwork, drafting the financial statements, letter of representation and audit findings reports and assisting the Manager and RI in preparing for the closing meeting;
- Lead fieldwork teams on larger or higher risk audit clients;
- Discuss/agree on any potential audit journals with the client during fieldwork;
- Raise any potential time overruns with the manager as soon as they are identified;
- Be responsible for clearing review points and addressing any follow up queries until the date the audit report is signed;
- Ensure quality of financial statement disclosures by reference to the applicable checklist;
- Identify any areas of weakness in the clients system & controls and making reasonable recommendations for improvements;
- Keep the manager informed of any issues that arise with the client, e.g. copying them into all emails;
- Maintain and develop technical ability by attending webinars and keeping abreast of technical development;
- Review audit working papers of junior members of the team during fieldwork and provide support for them to achieve their goals.
What skills are we looking for:
- Be approachable to members of the audit team;
- Clearly explain audit testing and technical points to the audit team.
- Excellent communication skills
- Manage the fieldwork team, allocating the appropriate level of work to more junior members of staff;
- Manage your workload effectively.
What's on offer:
- Career mentoring and coaching
- 31 days holiday (including bank holiday)
- Christmas shutdown this is counted as part of holiday entitlement (3 days)
- The ability to purchase extra days leave in salary sacrifice
- Private medical insurance at discounted rates
- Private dental cover at discounted rates
- Life assurance (4x salary)
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Pension scheme arrangements
- Mobile phone contribution costs
- Reimbursement of one professional subscription each year
- Employee referral bonus
- Access to our wellbeing portal and Employee assistance programme
- Subsidised corporate gym membership
- Season ticket loan (for travel)
For more information, please contact Olivia Oxley.
To apply please send your CV, quoting our reference and specifying which website you saw this position advertised on. Due to the high volume of applications please accept that if we have not responded to your application within seven days, your application has not been successful. Sewell Wallis is a specialist recruitment company with a vast amount of experience in our industry we offer permanent, temporary and interim recruitment support for accounting and finance, human resources and business support positions. We recruit at all levels within finance from Purchase Ledger Administrator and Credit Controller level through to Financial Controller and Director positions. With offices in Sheffield and Leeds, we are well situated to cover all of South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire and Manchester. Please visit our website for more information on accountancy and finance jobs and human resources or business support positions.