As an Audit Manager you will lead and manage multiple audit engagements, ensuring they are completed efficiently, on time, and in compliance with standards. You will develop client relationships, oversee teams, and provide technical guidance on complex issues. Your role ensures high-quality service delivery and supports business growth and team development.
Core Skills
Client Focus
- Is able to respond to client queries relating to role with minimal input from others
- Demonstrates a clear understanding of clients’ business, objectives, challenges and risks sufficient to brief more junior colleagues on assignment and direct work accordingly
- Demonstrates a broad understanding of client/customer market and environment and understands the importance of driving new business
- Manage flexible working of self and assistants based around client needs and business deadlines
- Reviews WIP on a monthly basis to ensure that fees are raised for any work that is completed or at a billable stage and that any doubtful time that may not be recovered is adequately provided, by updating CCH with the required provision
- Gain experience of winning new work through input into the preparation of proposals, fee quotes and attending client tenders.
Technical Excellence
- Committed to developing knowledge in specialist area and actively communicates/feeds back salient areas to team members
- Delivers departmental training and development initiatives
- Maintains up to date technical knowledge and awareness of wider business advisory opportunities through technical reading and attending in house departmental seminars, to identify potential issues and emerging opportunities in own and other service areas of the business
Key accountabilities
Attention to Detail
- Demonstrates a commitment to developing team members by assigning challenging work ensuring to give support where appropriate and necessary
- Empowers team members to think independently
- Is able to make rational and informed decisions even if they may appear unpopular
- Is able to process constructive feedback and take ownership of their mistakes and performance.
Decision Making
- Confident in taking decisions within agreed remit
- Deals with instances of colleagues failing to adopt core values and respect by either addressing or escalating to senior team members when aware
- Suggests solutions to problems rather than waiting for suggestions from senior colleagues
- Supporting managers in delegated aspects of team management such as sickness reporting and holiday approvals. Participate in the interview and selection process for new junior hires.
Efficiency
- Challenges and assesses client fee levels against job recovery trends
- Challenges existing approaches and offers alternative suggestions to deliver work more efficiently without compromising of quality of output
- Champions new technologies aimed at improving quality and efficiency and takes the lead in departmental implementation of them.
Technical Skills
- Able to compile audit instructions where we act as group auditors, for dissemination to component auditors. Directing the approach of component auditors and assessing risk
- Able to review audit work of overseas subsidiaries / IFRS / contract accounting / acquisitions / disposals / restructures and other higher level complexities within both file and financial statements
- Ensure delivery of high-quality audit files, capable of achieving a 1 or 2 rating (as a minimum) in both internal and external file quality reviews
- Seeks to widen commercial knowledge and understand how this will impact clients and therefore audit risk assessment and approach
- Maintains commitment to producing high quality work in all aspects of audit work.
Qualifications
Holds an accountancy qualification or qualified by experience (e.g. ACA/ACCA/CA).
Essential Experience
It is expected that the above core and technical skills will have been developed through study alongside work experience in an accountancy practice.
