Associate Audit Manager

Milton Keynes

Competitive

Full-Time Permanent

Benefits:

• Salary Sacrifice Pension Scheme all staff are auto enrolled. (Employer: 5%; Employee: 3%) subject to eligibility.
• Annual Christmas Bonus equivalent to 1 week’s salary.
• Discretionary annual Summer Bonus.
• Potential commissions on referral of new work.
• Private Medical Insurance following completion of a 3-month probationary period (this is a taxable benefit).
• Death In Service scheme cover (4x salary).
• Group Income Protection Scheme (non-contributory) following completion of a 3-month probationary period.
• Annual Leave will be 25 days per annum (pro-rata), 3 days are normally taken at Christmas/New Year.
• Recruitment bounty.
• Flexible hours of work
• Payment of one professional subscription per annum.

Our client is looking for an Assistant Audit Manager to help their Milton Keynes team to grow their firm.

Key Responsibilities as Assistant Audit Manager:

• Assisting audit directors, senior managers and managers with audit assignments.
• Booking appropriate staff to conduct audit assignments.
• Managing and assisting with fieldwork.
• Reviewing and completing files and highlighting key issues to the audit RI.
• Liaising with clients in an appropriate manner and style.
• Setting budgets and negotiating fees with clients.
• Raising invoices in accordance with agreed billing profile.
• Tracking delivery against budgets / identifying any cause of overruns.
• Involvement with appraisals/reviews and identifying training needs.
• Engaging in business development and attending networking events.

Key Requirements:

• ACA or ACCA qualified.
• At least 2 year’s post qualified audit experience from a UK Accountancy Firm.
• Technically strong in UK GAAP.
• IT competent and be familiar with computerised packages (ideally CaseWare).
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to prioritise, work under pressure to meet tight deadlines and multi-task effectively.
• Strong ability to identify key risk areas at planning and completion.
• Able to work on own initiative and be flexible. Also being a team player and effective delegator of tasks whilst continuing to accept responsibility for delegated activities.
• Demonstrating a positive attitude and acting as a role model.

Disclaimer: Due to the high amount of interest that we receive for each of our roles, unfortunately we cannot respond to each application individually, therefore if you do not hear back from one of our consultants within 14 days then unfortunately you have not been shortlisted for this role.