Audit Manager
- Recruiter
- Easy Web Recruitment
- Location
- Holcot
- Posted
- 11 Aug 2018
- Closes
- 08 Sep 2018
- Job role
- Accountant
- Sector
- Accounting - Public practice
- Experience level
- Manager
Audit Manager
Our client is a Top 15 firm of chartered accountants who specialise in advising and supporting business owners. They support over 35,000 companies and business owners around the UK, which gives their clients access to a huge amount of business expertise and knowledge. Their fresh thinking and practical business approach underpin their values.
Position: Audit Manager
Location: Northampton (NN4) (Commutable from, Wellingborough, Kettering, Bedford, Milton Keynes and surrounding areas)
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 per week (Part time / flexible working would be considered)
Salary: £40,000 to 50,000 per annum (Plus a generous, flexible benefits package)
About the role:
Working on an extensive and broad portfolio of audit clients, within the owner managed and corporate space, the Audit Manager will work alongside Client Service Directors (CSD) and Audit RI’s on key and mid-tier accounts. The position will be in a client facing role, establishing strong relationships with a significant number of business owners across the region.
Responsibilities:
- Acting as a key point of contact within the firm for their audit clients together with the CSD and Audit RI. This includes reacting quickly to, as well as anticipating, client requests / needs, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the engagement and maintaining regular contact with clients
- Responsible for the financial performance and management of a portfolio of audit clients
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, being a main point of contact throughout the year for queries and support
- Develop a strong commercial understanding of the clients’ businesses and any developments within it
- Complete engagements within agreed budgets and timescales and identify potential opportunities for additional billing
- Manage audit resources to ensure engagements have the right mix of knowledge and skills required within the team assigned
- Ensure that the firm’s risk management and quality control procedures are adhered to at all times
- Identify and recognise service line opportunities with new clients, and inform the CSD as appropriate
- Play an integral role in the recruitment, retention, development and motivation of the team, which includes participating in recruitment, as well as ensuring personal development plans and job feedback documentation is completed within deadlines
- Acting as a representative of the firm, participates in office marketing events, keeps up-to-date of the wide range of services the firm offers
About you:
- Must possess professional qualification: ACCA or ACA. Alternatively, be able to demonstrate significant qualification by experience
- Significant prior experience of managing a portfolio of audit clients
- Significant experience of audit testing, including consolidations, group audits, statutory accounts and disclosures
- Recent and significant accounting experience is essential including knowledge of UK GAAP and Company Law.
- Strong technical ability with a working knowledge of recent developments in relation to audit, accounting and tax compliance (FRS 102 / FRS102 1a / ISA’s)
- Must demonstrate gravitas and impact to earn trust and respect amongst senior management, the wider team and with clients
- Established strong leadership skills and proven ability to provide clear directions and constructive feedback
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Demonstrated ability to think analytically and a high level of attention to detail
- Proven ability to identify and pursue business opportunities whilst maintaining a solution mind-set
- Drive and resilience to deliver high levels of customer service
- Commitment to building the reputation of Haines Watts through the quality of work provided, knowledge demonstrated and client experience
- IT literacy with sound knowledge and experience of Excel / Word / PowerPoint
- The role is Northampton based with regular travel to client sites across the relevant regions and occasional travel further afield, so a full UK driving license and access to a vehicle is essential
What is on offer:
- £40,000 - £50,000 per annum
- Rewards and incentives
- Annual performance related bonus
- Flexible benefits – self-service benefits platform
- Quarterly functions and events
- Parking on site
- Friendly and inclusive working environment
- Regular training and development
You may have experience of the following: Audit Manager, Accountant, Qualified Accountant, Internal Audit Manager, External Audit Manager, Auditor, Management Accountant, Internal Auditor, External Auditor, Corporate Accountant, Client Accountant, ACCA, ACA etc.
This vacancy is being advertised by EasyWeb Recruitment, the UK’s leading Online Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by EasyWeb Recruitment are those of an employment agency. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, and we confirm that we will gladly accept all applications.
Our client is a Top 15 firm of chartered accountants who specialise in advising and supporting business owners. They support over 35,000 companies and business owners around the UK, which gives their clients access to a huge amount of business expertise and knowledge. Their fresh thinking and practical business approach underpin their values.
Position: Audit Manager
Location: Northampton (NN4) (Commutable from, Wellingborough, Kettering, Bedford, Milton Keynes and surrounding areas)
Job Type: Full Time, Permanent
Hours: 37.5 per week (Part time / flexible working would be considered)
Salary: £40,000 to 50,000 per annum (Plus a generous, flexible benefits package)
About the role:
Working on an extensive and broad portfolio of audit clients, within the owner managed and corporate space, the Audit Manager will work alongside Client Service Directors (CSD) and Audit RI’s on key and mid-tier accounts. The position will be in a client facing role, establishing strong relationships with a significant number of business owners across the region.
Responsibilities:
- Acting as a key point of contact within the firm for their audit clients together with the CSD and Audit RI. This includes reacting quickly to, as well as anticipating, client requests / needs, keeping clients informed of progress in relation to all aspects of the engagement and maintaining regular contact with clients
- Responsible for the financial performance and management of a portfolio of audit clients
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, being a main point of contact throughout the year for queries and support
- Develop a strong commercial understanding of the clients’ businesses and any developments within it
- Complete engagements within agreed budgets and timescales and identify potential opportunities for additional billing
- Manage audit resources to ensure engagements have the right mix of knowledge and skills required within the team assigned
- Ensure that the firm’s risk management and quality control procedures are adhered to at all times
- Identify and recognise service line opportunities with new clients, and inform the CSD as appropriate
- Play an integral role in the recruitment, retention, development and motivation of the team, which includes participating in recruitment, as well as ensuring personal development plans and job feedback documentation is completed within deadlines
- Acting as a representative of the firm, participates in office marketing events, keeps up-to-date of the wide range of services the firm offers
About you:
- Must possess professional qualification: ACCA or ACA. Alternatively, be able to demonstrate significant qualification by experience
- Significant prior experience of managing a portfolio of audit clients
- Significant experience of audit testing, including consolidations, group audits, statutory accounts and disclosures
- Recent and significant accounting experience is essential including knowledge of UK GAAP and Company Law.
- Strong technical ability with a working knowledge of recent developments in relation to audit, accounting and tax compliance (FRS 102 / FRS102 1a / ISA’s)
- Must demonstrate gravitas and impact to earn trust and respect amongst senior management, the wider team and with clients
- Established strong leadership skills and proven ability to provide clear directions and constructive feedback
- Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
- Demonstrated ability to think analytically and a high level of attention to detail
- Proven ability to identify and pursue business opportunities whilst maintaining a solution mind-set
- Drive and resilience to deliver high levels of customer service
- Commitment to building the reputation of Haines Watts through the quality of work provided, knowledge demonstrated and client experience
- IT literacy with sound knowledge and experience of Excel / Word / PowerPoint
- The role is Northampton based with regular travel to client sites across the relevant regions and occasional travel further afield, so a full UK driving license and access to a vehicle is essential
What is on offer:
- £40,000 - £50,000 per annum
- Rewards and incentives
- Annual performance related bonus
- Flexible benefits – self-service benefits platform
- Quarterly functions and events
- Parking on site
- Friendly and inclusive working environment
- Regular training and development
You may have experience of the following: Audit Manager, Accountant, Qualified Accountant, Internal Audit Manager, External Audit Manager, Auditor, Management Accountant, Internal Auditor, External Auditor, Corporate Accountant, Client Accountant, ACCA, ACA etc.
This vacancy is being advertised by EasyWeb Recruitment, the UK’s leading Online Recruitment Agency. The services advertised by EasyWeb Recruitment are those of an employment agency. No terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, religion, or belief, and we confirm that we will gladly accept all applications.