Audit Senior – Bristol recruitment
In recent years, the Bristol based audit team has enjoyed significant success and is looking to recruit a talented individual to develop the practice further.
We are seeking to appoint an Audit Senior to assist the team in growing the audit practice. This is an important role, and will give you significant experience and responsibility in all aspects of the audit process including planning, resourcing, managing budgets, client meetings and business development.
As the successful candidate you will act as a Lead Senior reporting to the Audit Senior Managers / Partners; you will be working on a broad range of clients, covering a number of sectors.
As the successful Audit Senior, you will take responsibility for:
Planning:
- Full responsibility for all aspects of planning including budgeting resourcing, coordinating manager and partner, +Vantage, (Mazars audit software), client meetings and visits.
- Perform an assessment of the systems and controls and identify risks as a result of this review.
- Perform preliminary analytical review and highlight risk areas for further audit investigation. Consider expected trends and ensure analytical review addresses this. Communicate expected trends and relevant ratios that should be included in this review to other seniors and assistants.
- In light of the above produce a costed work programme for the assignment tailored to the risks associated with the client.
- Draft the budget and assign audit areas to team members (where applicable) so as to manage the audit risks and develop the team members.
- Produce the Client Audit Plan to detail the above strategy to the client. Be involved in the delivery of the CAP to the client.
- Where applicable, prepare draft statutory financial statements based on the information provided by the client
- Organise, prepare agenda for and chair team meeting and communicate the strategy to the other members of the team. This is to include all team members not just audit.
- Ensure team member’s objectives have been set.
- Ensure all Manager and Partner review points noted and cleared.
Controlling the Assignment:
- Where appropriate, allocates work to team members based on skill and knowledge of team members, ensuring meet development objectives: in particular assigning more responsibility to more junior staff.
- Completes the complex areas of the assignment.
- Provides on the job training to assistants and seniors.
- Reviews the work of assistants and provide informal feedback throughout the fieldwork stage. Encourages other seniors to provide feedback to assistants.
- Ensures work of assistants has been reviewed and any issues highlighted and resolved before manager review (to allow manager to concentrate on key risk areas).
- Act as a point of contact for both manager and client, ensuring both are kept fully informed of any issues arising and the progress of the audit.
- Review actual to budgeted time and inform manager of any issues immediately.
- Build strong working relationships with the client, ensuring any problems or requests are dealt with promptly.
- Communicate with other departments (e.g. tax) and pass on all relevant information.
- Be aware of developments concerning client’s affairs and any opportunities to provide additional services.
Completion:
- Ensure completion of Financial Statements and closedown of audit files.
- Ensure standards and procedures maintained by whole team and complete audit file presented with review points cleared.
- Draft audit opinion summary for the Manager and Partner and draft management letter and any other reporting documents, including group reporting and audit committee papers.
- Provide constructive feedback for the completion of staff appraisals on the assistants and seniors and 360 degree feedback on managers and partners.
Administration:
- Keep technically up to dates
- Ensure awareness of firm’s specialist services and publications.
- To maintain time records and appraisal records.
- Complete assignment reviews within two weeks of the end of engagement and ensure partner sign off (for both own and other members of the team)
As the successful Audit Senior you will be able to demonstrate the following:
- Demonstrates and applies advanced technical, commercial and industry knowledge to the role, identifying issues and solutions.
- Actively seeks to enhance expertise and knowledge.
- Pro-actively identifies client need and keeps them informed of project status as appropriate.
- Develops and maintains relationships with internal and external contacts at all levels.
- Begins to develop a network of client contacts.
- Takes ownership of projects, effectively delegates to others within the team and takes responsibility for quality control.
- Acts as a role model for the team and values others expertise.
- Provides assistance, shares experiences, provides meaningful feedback and proactively supports the development of others.
- Demonstrates commitment to self development.
- Participates in meetings, providing information and ideas with clarity and persuasiveness.
- ACA or ACCA qualified
- Holds a valid full UK driving licence and has access to a car as regular travel to client sites is required.
If this position is the right next step for you, please apply now.
You may have experience in the following positions: Auditor, Audit Senior, Audit Semi-Senior, Audit Assistant Manager, Graduate trainee, Corporate Assistant , Semi-Senior, Audit Corporate assistant, Trainee Auditor.