Senior Audit

As an Audit Senior you will be contributing regularly, supporting your assistant managers and managers with their portfolios, and contributing more to meetings with clients. You will start to mentor those junior to you and monitor their work to ensure quality outputs. Using your knowledge and experience, you will have a more initiative-taking mindset when it comes to collaborating with your team and your clients, e.g. recognising and flagging where efficiencies can be created or process improvements can be made. You will have more client exposure more frequently, to model best-in-class client service principles. In this role, the emphasis is less on learning and more on ownership, contributing, and starting to manage. If you are on the path to being fully qualified, then during this role you will likely finalise your studies. Affinia can provide ongoing training to develop your ‘soft’ skills, such as how to be a mentor to others, provide constructive feedback, and an introduction to line management. We provide access to Tolley’s, Mercia and Croner-I for CPD, and LinkedIn Learning for everyone. Working with your line manager you will craft a development plan that is bespoke to you and your goals.

Accountabilities

• The Audit Senior role will collaborate closely with other Managers and Directors across the Group, responsibilities will include:
• Finalise professional studies and exams, achieving qualified status (if not already).
• Start to mentor those junior to you, monitoring their work for quality, providing guidance and feedback.
• Continue to support assistant managers and managers and others senior to you in the creation and quality of work, identifying strategic insights and ways to create efficiencies.
• Lead meetings with clients, ensuring we are managing and meeting their expectations.
• Apply risk management techniques during audit planning and fieldwork, in line with compliance.
• Learn how to manage audit assignments and team resources.
• Complete WIP and timesheets accurately and on time, as per company policy.
• Function as an ambassador for Affinia, internally and externally.

Skills/Qualifications

• Key characteristics include strong diligence, problem solving and communication skills, a professional approach to clients and colleagues and a firm commitment to providing top quality client services.
• Ideally You Will Have Experience In:
• Recent experience in Audit and Assurance within an accountancy practice.
• Qualified or almost qualified status (we will provide access to the required professional training including exams if relevant).
• Interested in collaborating with people, able to build relationships and networks.
• Experience of leading external audit assignments from planning to completion stages under International Standards on Auditing.
• Experience of preparing accounts in accordance with UK GAAP.
• Able to work independently as well as part of a team.
• Effective communication skills with senior staff and clients.
• Confident user of Microsoft Office suite – Intermediate/Advanced user of Word and Excel.
• Sound knowledge of key risks applicable to specific audits and aware of own limitations and when to ask for assistance.
• Excellent organisational and time management.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment.