Semi Senior Audit

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Semi Senior Audit (3982483)
Reference
3982483
Salary
£Market rate
Job Location
- United Kingdom -- England -- South East England -- Hampshire -- Southampton
Job Type
Permanent
Posted
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Closing date
24 Dec 2021 23:59

Tilney Smith & Williamson's personal wealth management services include financial planning, investment management and advice, online execution-only investing and personal tax advice. For businesses, its range of services include assurance and accounting, business tax advice, employee benefits, forensic advice, fund administration, recovery and restructuring, as well as corporate finance and transaction services.
Southampton
Our Southampton office specialises in providing tax and audit services to businesses, as well as corporate finance and restructuring & recovery. We also provide services to professional practices, business owners and private clients, including personal tax, trust and financial planning advice. Our teams are Partner led and coordinated across disciplines allowing us to provide clients with a professional service and all-round advice.
Whether you're looking to relocate or work from home, with our new smart working policy you can be based from your office space at home and/or at one of our office locations across the UK&I.
Assurance & Business Services
We provide a range of services including external audit, finance due diligence, valuations, and payroll services to a diverse client base ranging from small businesses and startups to substantial international groups. Our client portfolio includes businesses from a variety of different industry sectors, across both private and AIM listed companies.
Job Description
Purpose of role:
Completion of audit and accountancy tasks as set out in planning memo, audit programmes and direction of managers.
Key responsibilities:
Technical

• Complete audit programmes by undertaking tasks allocated and signing off to evidence completion
• Document fully work done to a level agreed with manager
• Conclude on
• each individual test
• sections completed
• Highlight issues and problems for attention of manager
• Review working papers of more junior staff where agreed with manager
• Ensure work completed to a level agreed with manager

Client liaison

• Obtain information and explanations from client staff
• Establishing relationship point as for trainee
• Resolution of queries whether of an audit or accountancy nature

Communication with other staff

• Understand from manager, scope of tasks allocated and objectives to be achieved
• Coach more junior staff (where work delegated) giving more constructive feedback.
• Record clearly and concisely work done
• Keep manager/director informed of:

• Problems encountered
• Issues needing urgent resolution/risks identified
• time over-runs
• areas where additional work required/client non-performance

• Suggest to manager solutions to any issues/problems encountered

Organisational

• Monitor time against budget
• Prioritise tasks
• Ascertain client procedures and practices and organise affairs to their timetables and availabilities
• Supervise, delegate, monitor and review work of more junior staff

S taff development

• Development of business understanding
• Development of communications, inter-personal and interview skills
• Development of written communication skills
• Technical reading

Key Competencies:

Commercial awareness - an understanding of the organisation, the industry and business in general assists in putting the assignment into perspective and in identifying potential risks

Technical skills - development of full range of audit skills

Teamwork - Assisting the team to complete the assignment. Supervise, delegate, monitor and review work of more junior staff and provide on the job training as appropriate. Recognise the need to seek advice from seniors when appropriate and work to achieve deadlines

Written skills - write working papers, letters and other documents in standard form concisely and accurately - including method, findings and conclusions

Analytical review and thinking - analyse trends, ratios and relationships between figures to ascertain likely risks and problem areas. Obtain explanations for exceptions and variations

Judgement - ability to assess what gives rise to a risk and the size of that risk. Prioritise conflicting pressures within a tight timetable. Ability to consider overall risk of assignment not just the risk of a specific test. Assessment of whether sample sizes are adequate to form conclusions

Candidate Profile
Education/Qualifications:

• Part Qualified Accountant, ideally ACA or AAT.
• Track record of strong academic performance.

Key Experience/Skills:
Demonstrable audit experience gained within a professional services firm.