An Audit Associate (Part Qualified) is being recruited by Bond Williams Accounting and Finance for a large, highly reputable, established and growing accountancy firm based in Southampton.
Reporting to a Manager, you will be working as part of a team to complete client based audit tasks as allocated right through to signing off evidence and this may include supervision, delegation and monitoring the work of junior staff, highlighting problems for manager attention, liaising with client staff to obtain information or resolve queries and monitoring time allocations against budget.
You will need to have previous audit experience within an accountancy practice, have a good record of academic achievements, be at least part qualified (ACA/ACCA) and continuing professional studies; in addition you will need good commercial awareness, good written and verbal communication skills together with excellent IT skills, particularly in Excel and accounting packages such as Xero, Exact, Sage.
You will also need to have the ability to analyse trends, ratios and relationships between figures to ascertain likely risks and problem areas and the ability to judge whether sample sizes are adequate to form conclusions.
In return you will enjoy an excellent working environment, competitive salary, study support, hybrid/flexible working, good pension, 23 days holiday (rising to 26 after 2 years and the ability to buy up to 5 more days) and...