National Audit Support - Director

At Grant Thornton we believe we’re best positioned to make a meaningful impact on the economy. Our ideas and insight empower our clients to make big decisions about the future and unlock sustainable growth. We are currently looking for an exceptional Director to join our Quality Audit team to drive our relentless focus on quality and integrity, to help businesses, communities and our people to flourish.

A look into the role:

Our commitment to audit excellence remains constant. Audit quality isn’t left to chance; as a member of the Quality Audit team, you will be part of developing and maintaining a high‑priority service within our business, with a real opportunity to add value and shape the way our firm embeds quality within our culture and creates a high‑quality service for our clients.

To successfully deliver this role, team members will need to demonstrate an ability to lead and deliver quality audits, an ability to constructively challenge and integrity. On a day‑to‑day basis, you will be working closely with our audit partners, teams and engagement quality review partners to perform “hot reviews” of audits. This will involve applying excellent technical and practical skills, while developing strong relationships quickly, where you can deliver challenging messages in a positive and confident way. This will involve resolving challenging situations. You will challenge the execution of audit procedures and documentation of audit work performed, whilst supporting and coaching partners and teams to implement identified improvements in audit quality. You will identify issues and matters where firm‑wide action may be required, as well as other ad‑hoc projects related to improving audit quality. As the team grows it will also have the potential to deliver training alongside the audit standards team, providing support for the firm during FRC inspections and lend support to the legal team.

Qualifications:

• You’ll hold a professional accountancy qualification (ACA, CA or ACCA).
• Experience in listed audits, audit quality control and/or audit inspection.
• In‑depth knowledge of IFRS and/or UK GAAP.
• Excellent insight and analytical skills so that you can evaluate a significant amount of information, understand the bigger picture and identify what is important to ensure that high quality standards are achieved.
• Strong digital and IT capability, including use of MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint, and comfort leveraging AI‑enabled tools and platforms to drive efficiency and insight.
• Highly motivated and passionate about audit quality with a desire to seek new ways to drive improvement.
• A willingness to work flexibly both as part of a close‑knit team and as a self‑directed individual.

Skills to set you apart:

• Excellent practical and technical auditing experience, particularly on more complex audits.
• Experience of performing audit quality reviews (pre‑or post‑audit opinion).
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to quickly establish credibility, and influence at the most senior levels within the firm.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with the confidence and ability to challenge the judgements made by senior partners and engagement team.
• An ability and desire to work with a client base across a broad range of sectors.
• Ability to think innovatively and creatively to identify ways to improve audit quality.
• Teamwork/collaboration – Working closely alongside others with different skillsets and experience to develop the best solutions to complex questions.

Beyond the job:

Life is more than work. The things you do, and the people you’re with outside of work matter, that’s why we’re happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles, and we’ll always do our best to keep your work and life in balance. We’ll always encourage the impact you can make here beyond your day‑job. From secondments, to fundraising for local charities, or investing in entrepreneurs in the developing world, you’ll be giving back to society. It’s that drive to do the right thing that runs through our every move, grounded in our firm’s values – purposefully driven, actively curious and candid but kind. We’re looking for people who want to contribute, spark fresh ideas and go beyond expectations. People who want to be able to proudly do what’s right, for the firm, our clients, our people and themselves. It’s how it should be.

Celebrating our inclusive culture:

• Stonewall LGBTQ+ Inclusive Employer.
• Working Families Top 10 Employer.
• Employee Index Top 75 Employer.
• Top 10 Muslim Employee Networks.
• Disability Confident Leader.
• Inclusive Employers.
• The Prince’s Responsible Business Network.