Were looking for a motivated and detail-oriented Assistant Audit Manager to join our growing team. In this role, youll manage a portfolio of audit and statutory accounts clients, ensuring the delivery of high-quality work and maintaining strong client relationships.
As an Assistant Manager, you will:
1. Oversee the planning and execution of audit engagements across a varied client base
2. Build and maintain trusted client relationships, acting as a key point of contact
3. Support the management of the team, including workload planning and performance appraisals
4. Mentor and develop junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
5. Maintain a clear understanding of the teams financial performance and contribute to its success
This is a great opportunity for an ambitious audit professional ready to take the next step in their career, with the chance to work on a diverse portfolio and grow within a supportive and collaborative environment.
Key Accountabilities
Statutory Accounts
6. Review of statutory financial statements and accompanying working papers.
Audit
7. Manage a mixed portfolio of clients, organising the portfolio and assignments from start to finish.
8. Perform thorough management review of planning, fieldwork and finalisation.
9. Manage own time and manage others time in order to meet internal and external deadlines, Ensure team rearrange plans, invites and deadlines if the client is late with information, including managing job bookings.
10. Keep a good control of budgetary and time constraints ensuring that jobs make at least 90% recoverability, providing explanation where they do not meet this threshold.
11. Visit clients premises to complete reviews when required.
Management Team
12. Attend managers meetings, providing and communicating ideas to improve internal processes and operations within the team
13. Be actively involved in appraising members of the team, providing feedback to direct reports and supporting them in their off the job learning through the apprenticeship scheme with First Intuition
14. Communicate clearly with the team, encouraging key skills such as prioritising, planning and delegation.
15. Actively engage in scheduling and resourcing discussions to ensure that the team runs efficiently
Client Relations
16. Build a strong commercial awareness and understanding of the full service offering of the ZEDRA group. This should include liaising with other departments to ensure good customer service and efficient work
17. Manage the client expectations whilst building relationships with clients. Go the extra mile for client service, solving issues and making recommendations
18. Attend and represent the ZEDRA Group at business development events, promoting the services provided where possible.
Knowledge & Experience
19. Experience of leading audit engagement teams
20. Confident liaising with client contacts and being the main client contact through the course of an audit
21. Preferably both UK GAAP and IFRS experience
22. Ideally experience of using CaseWare audit software
23. Able to act as a mentor for ICAEW students through their training qualification and on the job
24. Able to deliver technical training updates to small groups
25. Qualified, preferably ACA but ACCA or other qualifications may be considered
26. Responsible for a portfolio of low to medium risk audits and statutory accounts clients (80/20 split)