Senior – Audit

Location: Hybrid / Nottingham, UK
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Accounting & Finance | Audit & Practice
Salary: Competitive salary

As anAudit

Senioryou will becontributingregularly, supporting your assistant managers andmanagerswith their portfolios,and contributing more to meetings with clients.

You willstart to mentor those junior to you andmonitortheir work to ensure quality outputs.

Using your knowledge and experience,you willhave a more initiative-taking mindset when it comes to collaborating with your team and your clients, e.g.recognising and flagging where efficiencies can be created or process improvements canbe made.

You willhave more client exposure more frequently, to model best-in-class client service  this role, the emphasis is less on learning and more on ownership,contributing,and starting to manage.

If you are on the path tobeing fully qualified,then during this role you willlikelyfinaliseyour studies. Affinia can provide ongoing training to develop your‘soft’skills, such as how to be a mentor to others,provide constructive feedback,and an introduction to line management. We provide access to Tolley’s, Mercia and Croner-I for CPD, and Linked In Learning for everyone. Working with your line manager you willcraft a development planthat isbespoke to you and yourgoals.

Accountabilities:

The Audit Senior role will collaborate closely with other Managers and Directors across the Group, responsibilities will include:

• Acting as the lead senior on audits, reporting to the audit manager.
• Being the first point of contact for the client whilst on-site and ensuring any queries are dealt with promptly even after the fieldwork has ended;
• Responsibility for developing and finalising the audit plan, identifying key audit risks based on the background knowledge, thorough research, preliminary results and discussions with the client, and ensure appropriate work is planned to address these;
• Setting and monitoring of budgets, undertake execution of the fieldwork, drafting the financial statements, letter of representation and audit findings reports and assisting the manager and RI to prepare for the closing meeting;
• Lead fieldwork teams on larger or higher risk audit clients.
• Discuss/agree any potential audit journals with the client during fieldwork.
• Raise any potential time overruns with the manager as soon as they are identified;
• Be responsible for clearing review points and addressing any follow up queries until the date the audit report is signed.
• Ensure quality of financial statement disclosures by reference to the applicable checklist.
• Identify any areas of weakness in the clients system & controls and making reasonable recommendations for improvements.
• Keep the manager informed of any issues that arise with the client, e.g. copying them in to all emails.
• Maintain and develop technical ability by attending webinars and keeping abreast of technical development.
• Review audit working papers of junior members of the team during fieldwork and provide support for them to achieve their goals.

Skills/Qualifications

Key characteristics include strong diligence, problem solving and communication skills, a professional approach to clients and colleagues and a firm commitment to providing top quality client services.

You will have experience in:

• Recent experience in Audit and Assurance within an accountancy practice.
• Qualifiedor almost qualified status (we will provide access to the required professional training including examsif relevant)
• Interested in collaborating with people,able to build relationships and networks.
• Experience of leading external audit assignments from planning to completion stages under International Standards on Auditing.
• Experience of preparing accounts in accordance with UK GAAP.
• Able to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Effective communication skills with senior staff and clients.
• Confident user of Microsoft Office suite – Intermediate/Advanced user of Word and Excel.
• Sound knowledge of key risks applicable to specific audits and aware of own. limitations and when to ask for assistance.
• Excellent organisational and time management.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively…