Audit Manager - Public Sector & Health
Job Description
The Team KPMG is one of the foremost Audit and Assurance practices in the UK whose success and reputation depends upon the quality and integrity of our services - and our people. The Public Sector, is one of a number of key strategic growth areas for the firm, with ambitious targets for increasing the size of our business in the next three years. To support this growth, we are looking for a qualified accountant to join our Public Sector department in Southampton. The team are excited and passionate about working in the Public Sector and are looking to recruit a similarly passionate qualified accountants to join the team. In our South Coast Public Sector department, you can really make a difference, ensuring that taxpayers' money and other public funds are well spent. You will be working as part of a large client facing team delivering a range of audit and advisory engagements across a range of clients spanning the healthcare, charity, housing, education, local government and central government sectors. These organisations have a real effect on many people's lives, particularly the most vulnerable, so your expertise and drive are crucial, especially as public sector organisations are under ever increasing levels of scrutiny. We have a diverse and rapidly expanding portfolio of public sector clients, offering significant opportunities to experience audit in different areas of the sector and to be involved in advisory engagements. The quality of our service is a reflection of our people and we will work with you to ensure that you have every available opportunity to learn new skills and gain new experiences. The Role Responsibilities Manage and deliver audit engagements from planning through to completion. The role will require proficiency in IFRS, UK GAAP and US GAAP (not essential). You will have your own portfolio of clients with responsibility for agreeing audit timetables, briefing the audit team, including other specialists, monitoring budgets and supervising the KPMG audit process. This will include: · To manage engagements, overseeing in-charge and audit assistants work ensuring compliance with client, statutory and KPMG Audit Methodology requirements, appreciating relevant internal and external market factors, ensuring the effective and timely delivery of engagements · Oversee and direct the budgeting, planning, co-ordination and control of engagements in accordance with client, statutory, KPMG Audit Methodology and business requirements to ensure effective service delivery and maximised recoverability · Direct, coach and mentor Assistant Managers to assist them in the effective delivery of engagements and the direction of their subordinates ensuring cost effective, timely completion and effective service delivery to the required standard on each engagement · Nurture and seek worthwhile relationships with clients, business departments and staff, for the sharing of information and to identify and progress current and future Audit requirements - Prepare and negotiate fee proposals for our existing client base, and assist in forming propositions for new business. · Contributes towards the creation, implementation and delivery of the Audit Business Plan and offer support in relation to issues identified as a result of organisational or client focus change · Assist the Senior Managers, Directors and Partners in monitoring the effectiveness of Audit services delivered, providing feedback and reflection on the quality of service accordingly · Preparation of reports to senior management and audit committees Qualifications, Skills and Experience - Time and Exam Qualified Accountant - ACA, ACCA or equivalent - Significant and recent experience as a Manager in an external audit capacity - Current accounting and financial reporting standards including IFRS and GAAP standards - Leadership skills and ability to act as a role model - Drive and resilience and ability to thrive in a pressured environment - Knowledge and experience of auditing and experience of systems/controls testing as well as substantive auditing, including consolidations, group audit, review of statutory accounts and disclosures - Sound working knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP and US GAAP - Well-developed supervisory skills e.g. coaching and motivation - Strong project management techniques including decision-making ability, analytical skills, time management, organisation and evaluative skills. - Strong communication and inter-personal skills, both verbal and written - IT literacy with sound knowledge and experience of Excel/Word - Proven research skills e.g. information seeking and knowledge sharing, understanding and interpreting information/applying knowledge - Able to demonstrate strong business development acumen
The Team KPMG is one of the foremost Audit and Assurance practices in the UK whose success and reputation depends upon the quality and integrity of our services - and our people. The Public Sector, is one of a number of key strategic growth areas for the firm, with ambitious targets for increasing the size of our business in the next three years. To support this growth, we are looking for a qualified accountant to join our Public Sector department in Southampton. The team are excited and passionate about working in the Public Sector and are looking to recruit a similarly passionate qualified accountants to join the team. In our South Coast Public Sector department, you can really make a difference, ensuring that taxpayers' money and other public funds are well spent. You will be working as part of a large client facing team delivering a range of audit and advisory engagements across a range of clients spanning the healthcare, charity, housing, education, local government and central government sectors. These organisations have a real effect on many people's lives, particularly the most vulnerable, so your expertise and drive are crucial, especially as public sector organisations are under ever increasing levels of scrutiny. We have a diverse and rapidly expanding portfolio of public sector clients, offering significant opportunities to experience audit in different areas of the sector and to be involved in advisory engagements. The quality of our service is a reflection of our people and we will work with you to ensure that you have every available opportunity to learn new skills and gain new experiences. The Role Responsibilities Manage and deliver audit engagements from planning through to completion. The role will require proficiency in IFRS, UK GAAP and US GAAP (not essential). You will have your own portfolio of clients with responsibility for agreeing audit timetables, briefing the audit team, including other specialists, monitoring budgets and supervising the KPMG audit process. This will include: · To manage engagements, overseeing in-charge and audit assistants work ensuring compliance with client, statutory and KPMG Audit Methodology requirements, appreciating relevant internal and external market factors, ensuring the effective and timely delivery of engagements · Oversee and direct the budgeting, planning, co-ordination and control of engagements in accordance with client, statutory, KPMG Audit Methodology and business requirements to ensure effective service delivery and maximised recoverability · Direct, coach and mentor Assistant Managers to assist them in the effective delivery of engagements and the direction of their subordinates ensuring cost effective, timely completion and effective service delivery to the required standard on each engagement · Nurture and seek worthwhile relationships with clients, business departments and staff, for the sharing of information and to identify and progress current and future Audit requirements - Prepare and negotiate fee proposals for our existing client base, and assist in forming propositions for new business. · Contributes towards the creation, implementation and delivery of the Audit Business Plan and offer support in relation to issues identified as a result of organisational or client focus change · Assist the Senior Managers, Directors and Partners in monitoring the effectiveness of Audit services delivered, providing feedback and reflection on the quality of service accordingly · Preparation of reports to senior management and audit committees Qualifications, Skills and Experience - Time and Exam Qualified Accountant - ACA, ACCA or equivalent - Significant and recent experience as a Manager in an external audit capacity - Current accounting and financial reporting standards including IFRS and GAAP standards - Leadership skills and ability to act as a role model - Drive and resilience and ability to thrive in a pressured environment - Knowledge and experience of auditing and experience of systems/controls testing as well as substantive auditing, including consolidations, group audit, review of statutory accounts and disclosures - Sound working knowledge of IFRS, UK GAAP and US GAAP - Well-developed supervisory skills e.g. coaching and motivation - Strong project management techniques including decision-making ability, analytical skills, time management, organisation and evaluative skills. - Strong communication and inter-personal skills, both verbal and written - IT literacy with sound knowledge and experience of Excel/Word - Proven research skills e.g. information seeking and knowledge sharing, understanding and interpreting information/applying knowledge - Able to demonstrate strong business development acumen