Audit & Assurance Manager / Senior Manager

Job title:

Audit & Assurance Manager / Senior Manager

Company

Armstrong Watson

Job description

About Armstrong Watson LLP

As an expanding business with 16 offices at present, Armstrong Watson LLP is a leading independent accountancy firm ranked in the top 35 firms of accountants and business advisers.

With approximately 570 colleagues, our people and our culture are at the heart of what we do. We recognise the unique impact our employees have on not only our clients, but also our colleagues and the communities in which we operate in. Our success is dependent on every colleague behaving consistently across all four of our values: Passion, Trust, Honesty and Humanity.

The Role

Our specialist teams aim is to enhance our clients’ audit experience through gaining a detailed knowledge and understanding of their business. We don’t see audit as a compliance exercise required by law; we go beyond this, exploring opportunities to benefit the business. Utilising our expertise in conjunction with our business knowledge enables us to offer relevant feedback or ideas, identify potential weaknesses or risks, and advise on remedial action.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a full-time Audit and Assurance Manager / Senior Manager to join our Newcastle office.

The key elements of this role will include but not be limited to:

• Ensuring the planning, prioritising and allocation of all relevant client work is done whilst ensuring effective team workflow
• Ensuring establishment of scope and budget for each piece of client work is in place and ensuring adequate briefing to team members is given where relevant
• Ensuring full agreement of client for work to be undertaken is in place and communicating likely fees prior to commencement to maximise fee recovery
• Monitoring work progress and ensuring appropriate levels of communication with all clients and internal stakeholders on progress for each piece of client work, including highlighting key issues and areas for concern on client accounts
• Monitoring individual and team performance versus original objectives and departmental KPIs
• Providing regular feedback to all team members on their performance via informal ‘1:1’ meetings
• Conducting formal appraisals versus original objectives and job specification for each direct team member every six months
• Assisting Armstrong Watson students and trainees with ‘on the job’ training
• Supporting the wider Audit & Assurance team in delivering the required departmental incremental fee target via networking, meeting attendance, business pitches and input into marketing strategy

The Candidate

In order to fulfil the role, we expect you to:

• Be ACA / ACCA / ICAS qualified
• Have a sound knowledge and understanding of all relevant UK taxes such as Corporation Tax, VAT, PAYE etc in order to ensure amounts are accurately presented in the financial statements of a company
• Have excellent knowledge and working experience of the International Standards on Auditing (UK and Ireland) variant
• Be comfortable working within a fast paced working environment
• Be a dedicated team player and willing to assist colleagues within the team where possible
• Be able to prioritise workloads under strict deadlines and work well under pressure
• Be able to use initiative and have great organisation / problem-solving skills

Please note that we will not be accepting candidate submissions from agency suppliers in connection with this position at present.

The Benefits

In return for your hard work helping us shape our future growth and development; we will provide a competitive salary and a positive benefits package which includes:

• 3.1% Employer Contribution Pension Scheme including Life Cover and Income Protection
• Enhanced Annual Leave which will increase throughout your length of service and option an Annual Leave Purchase Scheme allowing you to buy up to 5 additional days annual leave each year
• Flexible & Smart Working – giving you the ability to balance home-working, office location etc.
• Life Cover of 4x your salary
• Health Shield Cash Plan (provides cash back on a range of Health benefits and discounts on fashion, entertainment, holidays etc)
• Employee Assistance Programme (confidential support for emotional wellbeing)
• Detailed and thorough on-the-job training

In addition to all the benefits you would expect from an award winning employer, you will be given the utmost encouragement and support to develop your career further.

When you’re with us… we’re with you.

Expected salary

Location

Newcastle

Job date

Sat, 09 Mar 2024 08:24:49 GMT

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