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Job Description
What you will be doing ?
We are seeking a talented Audit Assistant Manager to join our Audit team in our Tunbridge Wells office. In your role, you will lead audits of companies from a variety of sectors and industries. You will be responsible for the planning, fieldwork and completion stages of the audit, reporting to the audit manager and managing your team during the fieldwork stage, reviewing their work and supporting them with their learning.
As Audit Assistant Manager, some of your responsibilities will include:
* Regular discussions with the client to confirm progress, identify solutions to any hurdles and ensure reasonable expectations are met.
* Identify and highlight any opportunities for Evelyn Partners apparent from work undertaken.
* Assist and perform training of junior staff.
* Complete assessment forms of audit team.
* Perform work in accordance with Evelyn Partners audit and assignment procedures.
* Prepare draft accounts/report and completion memo (including identification of control weaknesses or areas of improvement) for review by manager
Why Tunbridge Wells?
* In our Tunbridge Wells office, you'll benefit from being in a fantastic open-plan space. We are also just five minutes' walk from the town centre, where there are plenty of shops, restaurants and bars. There are also lots of green spaces around us for walks at lunchtime and so on.
* In the Audit team, you'll have regular training sessions, delivered in-house by our Technical Team, so that you stay up to date and are aware of topical issues.
* You will also benefit from using the latest audit software and data analytics tools.
* In Tunbridge Wells, we have weekly audit team catch-ups, so you will be clear on your work schedule and have the opportunity to get to know your colleagues.
* Your line manager will also meet you regularly and support you from a pastoral perspective.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you should have:
* ACA/ACCA qualified or equivalent
* Demonstrable audit and accounts experience gained within a professional services firm
* Excellent communication skills, both internally and directly with clients.
* Capacity to manage projects and to generate engagement with the stakeholders
* Demonstrable experience of supervising others and delegation of work.
* Clear ability to organize self and others, such that you can work on several different assignments at one time.
Desired
* Drivers license as you will need to visit clients on-site
Additional Information
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 for your needs throughout the application process. Please let your Recruiter know.