Audit Senior

About the Company:

The client is one of the most highly thought of practices and has been recently ranked as a top ten employers at the British Accountancy Awards. They have over 30 years of experience within the field and in this time have accrued a significant amount of knowledge in that time, covering an enormous range of clients in many sectors.

They possess a culture which is centred around developing staff, and this includes significant investment in the people. This comprises encouraging continuous training, offering brand new opportunities, and tailoring personal development plans. The focus is strongly on staff development, and this is clearly exhibited through the major number of internal promotions, which are over 50%.

They strongly encourage individuals to have a flexible and agile working approach, in which all individuals are able to have a healthy work life balance and individuals have a high-level of flexibility in their role. The firm is also very environmentally conscious, with many programmes in place which ensure a significant level of recycling and minimal consumption of wasteful resources.

About the Role:

They are looking for an initiative-taking and skilled individual to join the fast-growing team as an Audit Senior. The chosen individual must be creative, be independent and highly confident. They will be able to build relationships with clients and management, as well as meeting extremely strict deadlines. The client base is truly diverse covering property, construction, professional services, insurance, and retail.

Benefits:

There are many different benefits to joining this highly prestigious firm. This includes the fantastic work life balance on offer from being able to work anywhere and choose your own working time. This allows you to work all your days from home as well as choosing your own time throughout the day to complete your seven hours of work. The team you will work with will be friendly and collaborative, and the salary will be highly competitive. There is paid staff volunteering day’s available each year to help give back to the community. Parking spaces are available, and the offices are modern. You will also be entitled to several bonuses including a yearly performance bonus, Christmas bonus and a loyalty bonus. Additionally, for those who are not fully qualified there will be study support, with a pay rise & bonus following each blockage of exams that are passed.

Responsibilities:

• Be positive, independent, and progressive at all times
• Possess excellent communication skills and be confident to liaise and build relationships with clients and key personnel
• Approach your work commercially, allowing you to meet deadlines and budgets, multitask and work accurately
• Be a good collaborator, self-motivated and able to motivate other members of the team
• Can work well under pressure, use initiative, and possess good organisation skills
• Can manage and add value to the firm’s business relationships
• Able to identify and develop new business opportunities or build and develop new opportunities for business development
• Must be IT literate and a working knowledge of the following software would be ideal:
  • o CCH
  • o CaseWare
  • o Xero
  • o Word, Excel and Outlook and Teams

Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years practice experience, ideally within a medium sized practice
• Possess a working knowledge of UK GAAP and International Auditing Standards
• Has good knowledge of FRS102 and FRS102A
• Is either ACA or ACCA qualified
• Ideally a 70-75% audit, 25-30% accounts split of work currently being conducted but not mandatory
• Some experience in leading audit and non-audit assignments, from planning to completion
• Complex/group audit experience is preferred
• Able to delegate and supervise team members on audit assignments
• Record of delivering results and meeting client/Partner/Manager expectations