Internal Audit Assistant Manager The Role The Risk Assurance Assistant Manager is responsible for managing client portfolios, ensuring compliance with technical standards, and supporting junior colleagues. The role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and the ability to deliver high-quality work under pressure. Core Skills Client Focus: Takes full responsibility for own clients and resource planning in relation to their client portfolio. Ensure assignments are diarised and delivered in line with client deadlines and expectations. Introduction to fee conversations with clients, with the support of senior management. Ensure up to date engagement terms are in place for all active client services, and revise accordingly for any changes in scope or service lines as and when changes arise. Develops a clear understanding of clients' business, challenges and risks sufficiently to brief more junior colleagues. Identify variations to initial engagement scope at an early stage of an assignment and propose approach and ad-hoc fees for any additional work for director/partner approval, so that full value can be recognised. Demonstrates opportunities to develop value added services for the client. Provides feedback to clients on progress and outcomes of jobs. Holds clients to account on the quality and timeliness of agreed deliverables. Technical Excellence: Has a sound knowledge of technical and professional standards, and can draw on this to enlighten colleagues and clients in specific and relevant areas. Confident in training others in technical knowledge. Be able to develop bid and pricing proposals for non-complex work. Commitment: Undertakes line management responsibilities including performance reviews of appropriate junior colleagues. Supporting junior colleagues in developing action plans based on feedback received. Commitment: Undertakes line management responsibilities including performance reviews of appropriate junior colleagues. Supporting junior colleagues in developing action plans based on feedback received. Key accountabilities Attention to Detail: Performs review of key areas of the assignment ensuring working papers and conclusions reached are presented well and justified. Takes pride in own work and takes personal responsibility for ensuring that the final product is accurate or high quality, and presented well. Decision Making: Confident in taking decisions within agreed remit. Deals with instances of colleagues failing to adopt core values and respect by either addressing or escalating to senior team members when aware. Suggests solutions to problems rather than waiting for suggestions from senior colleagues. Supporting managers in delegated aspects of team management such as resource planning (e.g. managing impact of sickness, study leave and holiday). Participate in the interview and selection process for new junior hires. Efficiency: Communicates effectively when scope or timescales need to change. Review work in progress (WIP) under own control and raise draft fees for approval considering stage of completion and work undertaken. Delivers work within agreed scope and timescales, meeting deadlines efficiently achieving desired recovery rates. Living Our Values: Consistently 'live our values' - demonstrate expected behaviours in line with our company values and Leadership Behaviours. Technical Skills Audit Delivery: Seeks to build on the skills and experience gained in their previous role as an advanced senior to develop further and continue learning. Has managerial responsibility for a number of non-complex clients running concurrently, prioritising workload to meet deadlines. Ensures everyone is clear on approach/responsibilities at the outset of the audit process and drives objectives for the team for their development. Provides timely feedback to individuals on their performance against these objectives. Begins to work directly reporting to partners on jobs within portfolio, taking charge of entire audit and review of audit team work for presentation of both file and client deliverables. Leads points of discussion at client meetings, using knowledge of audit work and emerging issues to obtain client agreement. Able to identify staffing requirements on large jobs/complex groups taking full responsibility of budget and subsequent tracking of progress to budget. Performing manager review of work - ensuring partners/directors are receiving a high-quality final version of output for review. Demonstrates knowledge of current changes within the industry to assist in developing fee proposals for clients, in addition to the use of an informed budget. Can liaise with other teams/service lines as appropriate to support cross-sell. Attendance at audit committee meetings to present audit findings. Begins to act as 'main point' of contact for clients, being a reference point for queries throughout the year. Able to act upon such queries via discussion with relevant team members, and setting out proposed responses. Exhibits good judgement as to when input from manager/partner is required. Qualifications Professional certifications such as Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) or Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) preferred / professional accountancy qualification Essential Experience Strong understanding of risk and controls. Proven track record of building and maintaining client relationships.