At S&W, we help our clients thrive by simplifying the complex, illuminating new paths, and shaping solutions that make a difference. As one of the UK’s top 10 fastest-growing accountancy firms, we have been a trusted partner since 1881—helping businesses and individuals meet challenges and seize opportunities across generations.
Built on expertise and driven by ambition, we provide a comprehensive range of services, including tax and accountancy, advisory and assurance, corporate finance, and restructuring. We are defined by our purpose—to help navigate challenges, unlock potential, and achieve the extraordinary.
Job Description
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.
Responsibilities
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 provide 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
To be successful in this role, you should possess:
* 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.
* Exposure to IFRS desirable, but not essential.
Additional Information
As a colleague here at S&W you will have access to benefits that include:
* Private medical insurance
* Life assurance
* Pension contribution
* 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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