Audit Supervisor

SRLV are a medium-sized independent firm of Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors based in Fitzrovia, a vibrant and exciting hub in Central London.

Our client base has a real strength in the music, media, and entertainments sector, whilst maintaining a broad range of clients including prestigious restaurant groups, luxury retailers, professional services firms, property, travel, and technology businesses.

We focus on people as individuals, allowing and supporting you to grow and develop within our firm. We value our differences and know that diversity across our team is what enables us to deliver the best service for our clients. We are committed to ensuring that everyone at SRLV feels they can bring their full selves to work and can thrive in an inclusive and safe space.

We are seeking an experienced qualified Senior to join our busy Audit team. The ideal candidate will be time and exam qualified, with up to 2 years post qualification experience and a broad client portfolio background.

• Fully responsible for audit jobs from start to finish – including planning, fieldwork, and finalisation
• Review the work completed by junior staff including providing feedback to aid their development
• Delegate suitably ensuring clear instructions are given and objectives and deadlines set. Working with the team to meet these and re-balance as needed
• Ensure good relationships with both internal and external clients
• Assist with managing the expectations of partners and other key staff across the practice to ensure work and projects are completed within reasonable and realistic time frames
• Correspond with clients, both on-site where applicable and via telephone / email to resolve any queries or issues
• Highlight any work or project delivery issues to partners and key staff
• Liaise with managers, partners and key staff on client problems and support team members with client issues
• Interact & co-ordinate with other departments to assist in ensuring seamless delivery of work
• Ensure own compliance with all practice management activities
• Develop and maintain a good level of technical knowledge through appropriate reading and courses, and to fulfil the professional bodies’ CPD requirements where appropriate
• Carry out any other duties as are within the scope, spirit, and purpose of the job

• The Supervisor will be the senior team member supporting management on our complex and technically challenging clients, including international groups
• Planning process for smaller jobs to include materiality determination, identification of risks, design of fieldwork tests applicable to the specific client, elements of timetabling and budgeting
• Allocate work to junior staff with assistance of managers and brief them on the work to be completed, providing guidance to junior staff and be available to answer queries throughout the audit process
• Complete the fieldwork for the more complex sections of audit files (generally to include stock, debtors, creditors, intangibles, investments, provisions, and contingencies)
• Being aware of the progress of audits including performance versus budget, identification of any problem areas encountered and keeping management information of progress. Re-balancing work as required
• Responsible for signing off audit file sections, possibly with the need to pick up any outstanding or complex issues from sections completed by junior staff
• Post reclassification journals to ensure correct financial statement disclosure and propose adjusting journals for client approval to correct material errors discovered
• Finalisation process for smaller jobs to include clearing manager & partner review points, production of an audit highlights memo, final analytical review, assessment of going concern and post balance sheet events, reconciliation of audit work performed and lead schedules to final accounts and review of financial statements
• Statutory account preparation for audit clients, including completion of disclosure checklists to ensure all relevant financial statement disclosures are correct
• Develop relationships with the tax team to resolve any queries they have when preparing…