Senior Audit Manager - Insurance - London/Birmingham

Senior Audit Manager – Insurance

Base Location: London or Birmingham

We have an exciting opportunity for an Audit Senior Manager to join our FS Insurance Audit team in either London, Leeds, Birmingham, Manchester, or Bristol.

• In the role, you will be responsible for managing and delivering our largest and most complex audit engagements to a high standard of quality, from planning through to completion.
• You will have your own portfolio of large and/or complex audited entities, with responsibility for agreeing audit timetables, briefing the audit team (including specialists), monitoring budgets, and supervising the KPMG audit process.
• You will manage and nurture stakeholder relationships at audited entities throughout the engagement, working with senior level staff.

As an Audit Senior Manager, you will be responsible for leading teams and supervising the work of junior staff, providing coaching and development to assist them in the effective delivery of engagements. You will also have performance management responsibilities for a small number of employees

· Performing the planning, co-ordination, and control of audit engagements in accordance with KPMG requirements, to ensure the delivery of a quality audit and appropriate profitability.

· Directing and overseeing the work of junior team members, ensuring compliance with KPMG Audit Methodology requirements. This includes reviewing their audit work and providing coaching and mentoring support.

· Project managing all aspects of audit delivery including timelines, team briefings, team supervision and reviews by more senior team members, including Directors and Partners.

· Acting as the initial point of contact throughout the year for your audited entities.

· Managing stakeholder relationships to facilitate the execution of the audit.

· Managing the finances of the engagement, including budgeting, fee negotiation, identifying and communicating overruns, raising fees and agreeing dates for cash collection.

· Managing Partner and/or Director involvement on the audit.

· Identifying, researching, and helping to resolve the most complex audit issues.

· Communicating with audited entities and KPMG specialists on complex, technical matters relevant to the audits.

· Preparing engagement deliverables, such as audit committee papers, and attending audited entity board/audit committee meetings

· Working on audit tenders for potential new audited entities.

· Performance managing junior team members, ensuring that you are having rich development conversations that supports their growth and career progression.

Experience and Knowledge Requirements

Significant and recent experience as an Audit Senior Manager in an external audit capacity working on large and complex audited entities.

This should include experience of systems/controls testing as well as substantive auditing, including consolidations, group audit, and review of statutory accounts and disclosures.

• Audit experience can be within a ‘Big 4’ consultancy, mid-tier firm, or government/public sector audit department. (E)
• Sound working knowledge of IFRS and UK GAAP. (E)
• Sound working knowledge of International Standards on Auditing. (E)
• Sound working knowledge of US GAAS / PCOAB standards. (D)
• Sound working knowledge of US GAAP. (D)
• Experience of presenting at audited entity board/audit committee meetings. (E)
• Proven track record of managing and delivering a portfolio of high quality, complex audits. (E)
• Experience of using proprietary software to manage the audit workflow and document audit evidence. (E)
• Experience of performance managing teams, coaching, and mentoring junior staff. (E)
• IT literate with sound knowledge and experience of MS Tools (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint). (E)

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