Audit Senior

A top 15 accountancy practice are currently recruiting for Audit Senior within their Flagship London Office. You will be supporting partners and associate partners in delivery of statutory audit and accounts preparation services, and managing/allocating work to audit trainees. The split will be audit 80% and accounts 20%.

Professional responsibilities

The Audit Senior duties will be:

• Planning and delivery of audit/accounts assignments
• Plan assignments in conjunction with the client partner or manager
• Lead some of our largest and most complex assignments
• Supervise junior staff during the audit and review their work
• Deliver the audit file to the assignment manager in timely manner
• Identify cross-selling opportunities and potential management letter points
• Monitor your chargeability and your assignment budgets pro-actively
• Coach other staff for improved performance and technical development
• Develop specialist sector knowledge and keep abreast of industry developments
• Mentor audit and accounts trainees and contribute to the office's training and development

Personal requirements

The successful candidate will have:

• ACA, ACCA qualification or overseas equivalent
• Experience of OMB/SME private company audits: planning, budget preparation, identifying key risks, developing an audit plan, executing the audit on site
• Knowledge of and experience of current auditing standards and approaches: analytical review, documenting systems and controls, sampling techniques
• Experience preparing audit and accounts files using an electronic working paper system such as Caseware
• Experience of preparing and auditing consolidated accounts and component auditor issues
• Leadership experience -experience supervising teams on-site and reviewing their work
• Experience of preparing budgets and monitoring actual time against budget