Description:
Our client is a Top Ten accountancy practice, based in central London. They are now looking to add to their growing external audit team. The ideal candidate will have current/recent prior Big 4/Top 10 audit experience.
Responsibilities include:
- Leading large multi-location, often international, teams using your people and relationship management skills to deliver high-quality audit work from project planning to completion;
- Developing trusted senior client relationships and demonstrating curiosity that allows you to have insightful conversations and provide appropriate challenge during the Audit;
- Building connections across teams and specialist areas within the company to bring insight to the organisations we audit. This includes managing specialist teams supporting the audit, building consensus around conflicting views and making recommendations where appropriate;
- Ensuring the team’s audit documentation meets the highest standards, reviewing financial statements to ensure they comply with relevant requirements;
- Managing the financial and resource aspects of Audit engagements, demonstrating a commercial approach throughout;
Essential Skills And Experience:
- Be Chartered Accountant / ACA / ACCA / ICAS qualified accountant (or international equivalent) or have equivalent work experience in Audit (including international candidates who technically qualify in their home country by experience);
- Significant experience of auditing within the financial services sector including clients within one or more of the asset management, capital markets and insurance sectors
- Excellent working knowledge of UK and International GAAP, IFRS, UK GAAP and Financial Reporting requirements
- A high level of experience of IFRS and/or UK GAAP and be highly skilled in using international standards on auditing;