Audit Senior

THE ROLE

We are seeking a part qualified Senior to join our busy Audit team. The ideal candidate will be studying towards their ACA or ACCA qualification.

• Fully responsible for smaller audit jobs from start to finish including planning, fieldwork, and finalisation
• Assisting with review of the work completed by junior staff by supporting and providing feedback to aid their development
• Delegate suitably ensuring clear instructions are given and objectives and deadlines set
• Ensure good relationships with both internal and external clients
• Being aware of 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 simple client issues
• Interact 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

• 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
• 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 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 Corporation Tax computations
• Take on a supervisory or assistant manager role for the audit of smaller, straight forward clients where the audit work can be completed by semi-senior and junior staff
• Any other ad hoc tasks as required

• Exceptional, effective, and appropriate communication skills both verbally and in writing
• Strong technical, commercial and risk awareness alongside thorough understanding of policies, procedures, and processes, applying own technical excellence regularly whilst appreciative of when to refer more complex technical issues up
• Frequently seeks feedback on own performance, is able to respond positively to constructive criticism, pursues ways to develop own skills further and strives for additional responsibility
• Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times and remain mindful of sensitive issues
• Excellent IT skills along with the ability to use software effectively
• Strong attention to detail
• Confident, professional, and coherent in dealings with partners, staff and directly with clients and is responsive to the needs of others
• Excellent work ethic and desire to provide a superior client service, with an in-depth understanding of clients and their needs as well as the environment they operate in
• A solid team player with a strong ability to work in a team environment as well as being a self-starter with the ability to work well using own initiative
• Demonstrates high levels of commitment and flexibility, actively offering assistance to other colleagues and takes ownership for own tasks assigned
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to manage relationships both internally and externally to a high standard, dealing with most first line issues
• Strong ability to cope in a fast paced environment, taking responsibility for own workload and working closely with manager and wider team / firm to deliver quality work to agreed, often tight, deadlines and timescales
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