Audit Senior Manager in Nottingham

The Role

As an Audit Senior Manager, you will oversee large or complex audit engagements, managing client relationships and providing strategic guidance on technical and regulatory matters. You will support the development of teams, contribute to business development, and ensure high-quality audits. Your role bridges operational delivery and leadership, driving firm-wide goals and client satisfaction.

Core Skills

• Client Focus
  • Demonstrates an understanding of client/customer needs not limited to service line.
  • Demonstrates exceptional client service (both internal and external) and understands its importance to Azets as well as clients.
  • Demonstrates the ability to look forward at industry and wider legislative changes which may affect clients and proactively seeks to offer support where appropriate.
  • Is able to tailor services to match client requirements in regard to scope and deliverables, timing and cost of services provided.
  • Understands client core priorities and challenges and is able to advise on ways that their internal process and procedures could be reviewed to assist in their achievement.
  • Is able to confidently lead meetings with stakeholders.
  • Maintains a regular in-person dialogue with clients as a primary point of contact and uses this to improve client service and identify sales opportunities.
• Technical Excellence
  • Takes the lead in ensuring team members possess the necessary skills, knowledge and behaviours required to deliver accurate, high quality work for our clients through identification of and input into development opportunities/training.
  • Able to work collaboratively with other service lines on complex issues in order to reach a solution and takes the lead in communicating outcomes to clients.
  • Proactively communicates news of a technical or topical development within Azets in their areas of specialism.
  • Is aware of upcoming changes to applicable legislation/regulation affecting their service line and how this will affect Azets workflow, processes and the scope and approach to client service delivery.
• Commitment
  • Volunteers to lead or execute tasks that help achievement of departmental or office business plan and strategic objectives.
  • Builds morale in the wider team creating a working environment which fosters a positive approach and feeling of achievement and inclusion.
  • Proactively and professionally puts forward considered views to drive change and improve processes for the better.
• Attention to Detail
  • Responsible for quality and takes pride in it at both a team and personal level.
  • Continuous focus on raising team standards to ensure output is of a high quality and well presented.
  • Gives meaningful and insightful feedback to all members of the team.
  • Acts quickly to resolve quality issues raised and seeks to analyse the cause of such issues to rectify.
• Key Accountabilities
  • Efficiency
    • Role models and motivates others to work efficiently and to embrace new technologies and ways of working to achieve this.
    • Encourages and empowers the ideas of team members on improving efficiency and champions these ideas as appropriate.
    • Identifies ways in which work delivery can be improved and puts ideas into practice, consulting with the wider team as appropriate.
  • Leading People
    • Role models how to celebrate the success of our people.
    • Effectively communicates objectives and motivates and supports people through times of change.
    • Understands and demonstrates the importance of business needs and the needs of individuals – crucially being able to balance each.
    • Is able to deal with poor performance, identifying development needs and supporting individuals to work towards objectives including being responsible for more formal support and monitoring of personal performance plans.
    • Acts as a coach and mentor to more junior team members, supporting their management of their own team.
    • Is able to mediate internal conflicts where they may arise.
    • Demonstrates effective use of delegation and development of staff to achieve departmental strategic goals.
  • Leading Yourself
    • Maintains passion and commitment to goals, in the face of obstacles and frustrations, seeking to understand the reason for these and ways to overcome them.
    • Deals with complex challenges and can move difficult and/or change management strategies forward.
    • Demonstrates an awareness of personal development objectives and actively takes steps to challenge themselves to achieve these, identifying where support is needed.
    • Identifies, welcomes and is receptive to contributions from all levels and is not closed to new learning opportunities.
    • Appreciates and demonstrates the value of delegation to accomplish goals.
    • Is aware that they can't and shouldn't do it all.
  • Driving Business Growth
    • Actively increases knowledge and awareness of business and competitive environment to seek out opportunities.
    • Has an established network of specific professional contacts relevant to their work through which business opportunities can arise.
    • Identifies opportunities to promote their specialist area to clients, prospects and external professional referrers with the aim of generating new referrals and work wins.
    • Is aware of team growth targets and understands their role in achieving these.
    • Demonstrates the ability to look forward at industry and wider legislative changes which may affect clients and proactively seeks to offer support where appropriate.
  • Living Our Values
    • New to Azets: Shows good understanding of our company values, and making good progress towards consistently demonstrating required behaviours.
    • Existing Colleague: Consistently 'lives our values' - demonstrates expected behaviours in line with our company values.
  • Technical Skills
    • Act as leader on all engagement teams limiting director/partner input to focus on high risk areas of assignment.
    • Demonstrate ability to navigate complex technical issues arising on assignments, research, consult, conclude, and present to director/partner in complete form.
    • Utilising robust professional judgement throughout audit process to arrive at own conclusions on audit matters.
    • Proficient at reviewing detailed, and more complex, consolidation work (JVs/mid-year acquisitions etc).
    • Proficient at designing audit approach for new, complex assignments involving specialist teams where appropriate.
    • Able to balance risk assessment against efficiency without compromising quality.
    • Be in control of entirety of service delivery to client relating to audit and associate matters.
    • Have a strong grasp of ethical implications and considerations concerning audit assignments and client services, taking prompt, pre-emptive action where necessary.
    • Be seen as a leader in department and service line matters spearheading initiatives for the wider team.
    • Take active role in internal and external file reviews – responding to challenge and queries professionally, implementing timely change where necessary and appropriate through sharing practice with wider team.
    • Demonstrates ability to manage and direct a large audit team on large and/or complex assignments often including other managers.
    • Clear focus on audit quality takes ownership/responsibility of communicating and monitoring quality within teams.
    • Facilitate and control group assignments under ISA600 ensuring where we act as group (or component auditor) that assignments are undertaken in accordance with ISAs.
    • Confident in raising and discussing significant and/or complex audit findings with client management, working with them to reach a resolution.
    • Oversees and guides robust challenge of material risk areas that involve estimation or judgment, ensuring detailed documentation of challenges raised with management and stand back assessment of findings.
    • Actively engaged in using technical skills to support service line and office business development and growth targets, including cross selling and new label.
    • Build internal network to support other service lines with technical advice and gain better understanding of opportunities to work together for own clients.
  • Other
    • Analyses relevant industry, regulatory, and other external factors that are used to inform audit risk assessments to ensure key risks have been identified, appropriately responded to and are consistent with expectations.
    • Takes lead in ensuring Dayshape and resource planning for local department is up to date and maintained to a good standard, utilising the assistance of wider manager/senior pool and regional resource planners where appropriate and necessary.
    • Responsible for monitoring and managing economics on each job across portfolio, including: Being aware of the firm KPIs on all audit jobs ensuring individual job performance is within these KPIs.
    • Communicating process for managing budget and overruns within the team.
    • Ensuring that all time is booked to audit codes.
    • Identifying appropriate fee increases, scope changes, overruns and providing the partner with timely information to communicate and ensure with the client.
    • Debriefing with client and team to identify efficiencies and improvements going forward.

  Qualifications

  Holds an accountancy qualification or qualified by experience (e.g. ACA/ACCA/CA).

  Essential Experience

  Holds an accountancy qualification or qualified by experience (e.g. ACA/ACCA/CA).