We're really proud of our highly successful Evelyn Partners Audit department. We hold ourselves to high standards and work together to produce quality, incisive audit work in a collegiate environment. We're focused on working with an expanding client base of dynamic mid-market businesses that are evolving and changing, which gives our team continual development opportunities and new experiences.
As an Audit Manager, you will be responsible for a portfolio of clients, including managing the relationship between the client and the engagement team. Your focus is on engagement management and supervising others to deliver excellent client service and a high-quality audit. If required, you will also assist with the management of the team, department, and potentially the wider firm. Where appropriate, you may become involved in non-audit assignments on an ad hoc basis.
Principal duties/activities:
Quality:
* Demonstrate and promote commitment to audit quality and professional standards, future developments and their impact.
* Monitor quality and manage risk at the engagement level, whilst still focusing on high-quality service.
* Leverage ideas, perspectives, and tools to deliver and promote technical excellence within the team.
Client and project Management:
* Identify issues, propose solutions, and agree resolutions with clients, more senior managers, and RIs.
* Track the work status of each audit engagement, keeping clients, more senior managers, and RIs up to date with progress.
* Effectively communicate to clients, more senior managers, and RIs any difficulties faced which may impact delivery.
* Maintain relationships with clients throughout the year via open and proactive communication.
* Build credibility by developing awareness of client sector and competitors, and impact on our work.
* Ensure clients receive an efficient and proactive service and expectations are exceeded.
Team management:
* Take ownership of coaching and development of more junior team members, prepare and present training as required.
* Give timely, detailed, and constructive feedback, both informally and via Job Assessment Forms.
* As the Appraiser of more junior team members, take responsibility for their appraisal process.
* Complete delegated administrative responsibilities (e.g., timesheet authorisations, IT software updates, carry out first interviews and providing recruitment recommendations, etc.) by required deadlines.
Client management:
* Build professional client relationships.
* Complete client service requirements to the required standards.
* Plan and delegate client-related work to internal, external, and/or statutory deadlines.
* Ensure compliance with assignment budgets and deadlines.
* Work with other departments as necessary to service clients' needs.
Decision making:
* A high level of personal pride in own work, responsibility, and initiative would be expected.
* Where appropriate, this should be balanced with the need to report back to Directors to keep them informed of job progression and additional client requirements and ensure their agreement.
* A high degree of autonomy would be expected, whilst still operating within expected firm procedures and processes.
Business Development:
* Prepare proposals for new work.
* Attend relevant marketing events.
* Present at seminars if required.
* Attend relevant client segment focus group meetings.
* Develop personal contacts.
* Identify and develop opportunities for Evelyn Partners with current clients.
Qualifications
* An accounting Qualification such as ACA, CA, ACCA.
* Significant external audit experience gained within a professional services environment at Manager level.
* Experience of reviewing and overseeing a wide variety of accounting assignments under FRS 102, FRS 102 Section 1A, and FRS 105, of varying sizes and complexity.
* Experience of reviewing and overseeing a variety of statutory audit assignments, compliant with ISAs.
* Experience of working with entrepreneurial, OMB, SME, and AIM listed clients.
* Experience of (and appetite for) business development activities such as targeting, preparation of proposal documents.
* Exceptional technical competence and experience and demonstrable strong analytical and logical skills.
* Very strong planning skills to provide high standards of client care within tight deadlines. Assessing staff needs and preparing budgets.
* Demonstrable working knowledge of accounting and auditing standards, industry specifics, and their application.
* Strong communication skills in order to liaise with clients, Partners, staff, and other professionals.
* Ability to work well within a highly professional team environment, training junior staff, assessing and meeting their training needs to develop well-rounded, highly skilled seniors.
* Very good IT skills.
Desirable skills
* Exposure to IFRS desirable, but not essential.
As a colleague here at S&W you will have access to benefits that include:
* Competitive salary
* Private medical insurance
* Life assurance
* Pension contribution
* Hybrid working model (role dependent)
* Generous holiday package
* Option to purchase additional holiday
* Shared parental leave
* Fully funded training towards professional qualifications
* Cycle to work scheme
* Season ticket loan
* Eye care support
We are proud to value the differences that a diverse workforce brings, representative of society and our clients. At S&W we have a wide range of highly active employee resource groups and we’re delivering multiple diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across the organisation. It is our commitment to provide a workplace where all colleagues, regardless of identity, background, or circumstance, feel respected as individuals and feel that they can achieve their full potential and work in a safe, supportive, and inclusive environment.
We are happy to make any reasonable adjustments to accommodate your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.
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