External Audit Senior Manager - AWM
Employer Location London, United Kingdom Salary Competitive Closing date 27 Mar 2026 View more categoriesView less categories Sector Salary band Contract type Hours Where will they be working You need to or to save a job.
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About the role
PwC's Asset and Wealth Management (AWM) practice is the market leading AWM audit business. Our business is a national practice comprising over 600 staff with a presence in 8 offices across the UK, and comprises both financial audit and non-audit assurance businesses.
Working in AWM will provide opportunities to gain experience working across a variety of clients including FTSE listed, global private companies, private partnerships, funds and Private Equity and Venture Capitalist backed companies. You'll work across a wide variety of industry sectors including, Real Estate, Hedge Funds, Pensions, Private Equity, traditional Asset and Wealth management, as well as technology and asset servicing businesses. This breadth of client base gives our people an unmatchable opportunity to gain deep understanding and experience across the whole AWM sector.
Key Responsibilities include, but not limited to;
1. Leading complex audit engagements by managing large, multi‑location (often international) teams from planning through to completion, overseeing complex and judgemental audit areas, ensuring high‑quality documentation, and reviewing financial statements for compliance with relevant standards.
2. Building trusted client relationships through strong people and relationship management skills, demonstrating curiosity and insight, providing appropriate challenge during audits, and clearly articulating conclusions and recommendations to senior stakeholders both verbally and in writing.
3. Collaborating across PwC by building strong connections with internal teams and specialist areas, managing specialist contributors, navigating differing viewpoints, and leading internal projects that support PwC and the wider lines of service.
4. Developing high‑performing, inclusive teams by managing financial and resource aspects of engagements with a commercial mindset, coaching and mentoring junior staff, role‑modelling PwC values, fostering an inclusive environment, and supporting individuals' long‑term development and aspirations.
The skills and experience we're looking for:
5. Must possess a Chartered Accountant / ACA / ACCA / ICAS qualification (or an international equivalent) or have equivalent work experience. This includes international candidates who qualify through experience in their home country;
6. A high level of experience of IFRS and/or UK GAAP and be highly skilled in using international standards on auditing;
7. Highly developed project management skills and a strong track record of managing larger or more complex audits to the highest standard from planning to completion;
8. Has the ability to communicate complex or contentious audit matters clearly and concisely in both verbal and written form to colleagues and senior client stakeholders;
9. Has the ability to offer considered points of view in client conversations around broader industry topics and provide knowledgeable challenge to senior clients in the context of an audit;
10. Takes pride in their work and in the Audit profession. Shows resilience and demonstrates dedication to self development including being agile and innovative in the digital world; and
11. Has extensive asset management experience specifically in the traditional asset and wealth management, real assets or alternatives sectors.
What you'll receive from us:
No matter where you may be in your career or personal life, our benefits are designed to add value and support, recognising and rewarding you fairly for your contributions.
We offer a range of benefits including empowered flexibility and a working week split between office, home and client site; private medical cover and 24/7 access to a qualified virtual GP; six volunteering days a year and much more.
Company
In order to be the leading professional services firm it's important we have the right values, culture and behaviours embedded throughout our organisation, so our work reflects our purpose and we can successfully deliver our strategy.
Our set the expectations for the way we interact with each other, our clients, and in the communities in which we operate. These values, and the behaviours that they require from us, are relevant to all our people regardless of grade.
They support a culture that empowers our people to be the best they can be, through challenging experiences and encouraging our people to speak up to make the firm a better place. We want all our people to understand and embrace the culture and personally feel part of the legacy this will create for our future employees.
We’re a hugely diverse business, bound together by our purpose - to build trust in society and solve important problems for our clients and the communities in which we operate. We believe we can make the biggest impact when our purpose is embedded within everything we do.
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