Audit Manager, Assurance

The opportunity

To manage multiple engagements whilst providing support and encouragement to your team/s and reporting directly to the director/Partner. The role requires commitment, as you’ll be expected to deliver on a variety of challenging audit engagements in the Financial Services industry, but also contribute to the wider goals of the firm, by coaching your team/s and seeking out business development opportunities, whilst working on your personal development and achieving your own career goals. You will play a vital for in helping us Build a Better Working World for the future of assurance.

Your key responsibilities 

Your responsibilities will be split across two areas; your clients and your people/teams: 

Client responsibilities: 

• Translate the planned audit strategy into effect audit procedures with input from your team, whilst providing explanations as to why you have opted for your strategic decisions.
• Manage and deliver the allocated audit area(s) on your clients, with the support of your team.
• To develop and maintain a portfolio of clients and advise on strategy of the audit procedure, delegating areas of the engagement to your team/s.
• Take time to build and develop a relationship with your client/s, understanding their needs and any potential concerns, establishing yourself as a trusted business advisor.
• Use in-depth knowledge of the client (and from prior years) to anticipate and address any potential issues.
• Identify areas of risk within clients’ businesses, defining the appropriate audit approach and know when to refer upwards.
• Be proactive in your approach to business development, winning work by understanding your existing clients needs and targeting new audit and non-audit clients for other areas of the business.
• Establish a strong network internally and externally, demonstrating the EY values at all times.

People responsibilities: 

• Be a proactive leader of your team/s, ensuring team members are well managed, motivated and satisfied that their needs are being met, for example up to date with their training and development, receiving regular feedback.
• Portray a clear sense of vision and direction, promoting the firm’s values.
• Create a high-performance culture in your team/s, taking pride and producing high quality work and delivering on the clients’ needs, with high engagement levels internally.
• Recognise and align your personal motivation and inspiration with our strategy.
• Counsel and assist your team/s with their personal development, providing guidance about how to reach their next career goals and ambitions.
• Identify and drive forward initiatives that you recognise have made a difference in teams/cultures, whether it be internally or externally.
• Ensure you take responsibility for providing your team/s and feedback requesters with timely and honest feedback.

To qualify for the role you must have:

• Professionally recognised charted/certified accountant qualification (ACA, ACCA, ICAEW, ICAS, CA or equivalent international qualification)
• Recent external audit experience, with financial services expertise

Ideally, you’ll also have 

• Experience with a Big 4 firm
• Project and financial management skills
• Experience working on audits for US GAAP and IFRS reporting listed clients
• Experience of both ISA and US GAAS / PCAOB auditing frameworks
• Team and leadership skills
• Understanding of controls and experience of control-based audits
• Business development skills

Who we are

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.

About EY

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.

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