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SalaryYou will be part of a tight-knit team, working directly with partners and directors, providing client focused and commercially aware services in an efficient and professional manner.
You will mentor, train and manage junior members of staff to enable them to develop and progress with the option of being involved in formal training if desired.
You will be assigned a partner mentor to help you work on your personal career development with progression opportunities available at all levels.
You will actively promote and market the firm and its services, to attract new clients and retain and develop relationships with existing clients, with the opportunity to specialise in specific sectors.
Your role will be audit focused while getting exposure to wider business advisory work as required.
Key responsibilities
- Involvement in planning, supervising, and carrying out full end-to-end audit
- Responsibility for achieving agreed budgets and meeting deadlines
- Delivery of a complete audit file for manager review.
- Supervision of the audit team on-site, which includes reviewing the work of juniors and assisting junior team members with technical accounting and audit questions.
- Delivery of work carried out under the primary accounting frameworks
- Experience in both substantive & controls-based audits. -
- Expertise in delivery of the primary accounting frameworks.
- Drafting recommendations to management following audit fieldwork completion.
- Drafting of close out audit meeting agenda and points for discussion.
- Close liaison with clients, and other stakeholders, often direct contact at Partner and Director Levels.
- Motivation and encouragement of team.
- Promoting the interests of the firm with all employed by the firm, clients, prospective clients and other third parties.
- Generally to provide a personal, professional, speedy and efficient service to the firm's clients.
- Any other special work as required e.g. benchmarking reports, management information reviews & proposal pitches.
- Working alongside current office management to assist and supervise junior team members.
- Attending client gatherings or client seminars on an ad hoc basis.
- Identifying business development opportunities with clients and progressing these in liaison with partner/director.
- Internal networking to get to know your team and the wider firm including specialist services
- Qualified to ACA/ACCA or internationally recognised chartered accounting qualification
- Experience leading audits
- Top 50 firm.
- Technically competent
- Experience of Pro-audit, CCH Accounts Production, Xero accounting, Quickbooks and Alphatax, Office 365 would be desirable
- High level of personal motivation.
- Excellent communicator- able to get on with clients and your team
- Adaptable
- Initiative
- Ability to organise and good motivator and encourager of team
- Personable and confident - clients should feel confident of their ability to relate to them
- Ability to multi task and prioritise work - time management
- Ability to meet deadlines
