Audit Quality Support - Regulatory - Senior Manager in London

Forvis Mazars is a leading global professional services network providing audit & assurance, tax, and advisory services. Forvis Mazars in the UK spans 14 offices across the nation and has over 3,400 professionals, with 190 partners. We have a clear purpose and a shared commitment to shape a better future. You’ll join a collaborative and inclusive team where you’re supported to grow your skills, explore new opportunities, and contribute from day one. You’ll work with a diverse client base, develop meaningful connections, and gain experience that extends beyond your local team. Together, we grow, belong and impact.

The Audit Quality Support Team (AQST) plays a vital role in supporting our audit practice. It forms part of the firm’s system of quality management; is responsible for designing methodologies and tools that ensure compliance with auditing and ethical standards and other requirements applicable to audit and assurance engagements; and supports the delivery of engagements that comply with the firm’s methodologies and related risk management policies and procedures.

Job Purpose

As an Audit Quality Senior Manager, you will specialise in interactions with the regulators (including the FRC, ICAEW and PCAOB); this includes supporting audit partners and audit teams through regulatory inspections with the FRC AQR, ICAEW QAD and PCAOB teams. This will contribute to the delivery of high-quality audits, supporting and coaching our audit teams, with particular focus on the review of responses to regulatory queries throughout the inspection and review of the audit work within the audit file to support this.

Role & Responsibilities

• Support Partners, Directors and audit team members on regulator interactions, managing the administrative aspect of the process and controls in place.
• Review of written and planned responses as part of the inspection process.
• Build strong working relationships with the regulator and with audit teams and coaching them throughout the process.
• Deliver feedback from regulatory reviews to the wider audit practice, including reminders of pitfalls, good practice and common areas of focus identified.
• Work with the Audit Quality Support Team on changes to methodology, training and any other ad hoc non-sector specific projects as a result of regulatory findings and themes.
• Manage other regulator requirements such as monitoring of ad-hoc requests, maintenance of audit data and other aspects of the process to support the work stream.
• Opportunities to support in other parts of the audit quality team such as hot and cold audit file reviews.

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

We are seeking an experienced Audit Senior Manager with a minimum of 5 years of recent UK audit experience with the following skills and attributes:

• ACA / CA / ACCA (or equivalent) qualification.
• Strong experience of working on audits of PIEs and listed entities.
• Experience of working on complex audits and audits of international groups.
• Strong practical and theoretical knowledge of UK auditing, ethical, and accounting standards, including IFRS.
• Currently operating at a senior manager or experienced manager level.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple work commitments, and to meet targets and deadlines.
• Experience of managing others.
• Ability and willingness to challenge and influence more senior individuals and peers.
• Ability to challenge, manage difficult conversations with empathy and balancing coaching with risk management.
• Experience of an external regulator review or interactions with the regulator in another capacity.
• Experience of performing audit file reviews is desirable.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Forvis Mazars, diversity, equity and inclusion are central to our values. We value our people's unique backgrounds, perspectives, and experience, and know this diversity creates better outcomes for our clients. We seek to attract, develop, and retain the best talent, inclusive of sex, ethnicity, disability, socio-economic background, sexual orientation, gender identity, nationality, and faith. We select candidates based on skills, knowledge, qualifications, and experience and aim to support all our team members to reach their potential. At Forvis Mazars, we promote an environment in which you can grow your skills, belong to a team that values your ideas, and make an impact that matters.

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