Public Sector Assurance Assistant Manager in Edinburgh

At Grant Thornton we do things differently - looking to the future, driving ambitious growth and pioneering positive change in our industry. Providing audit, tax and advisory services, we empower clients through strategic insight, curiosity, and genuine partnership. And we empower our people with real opportunity, an inclusive culture and work life balance.

Every day our teams help people do what is right to achieve their goals. The Public Sector Assurance team is no exception. In Public Sector Assurance, we have worked on some of the UK’s largest and most high-profile public-sector clients, with services ranging from being the number 1 provider of external audit with NHS and Local Government, financial reporting assurance and a range of grant services including compliance and assurance. Our work has focused on creating value across the whole of the UK, supporting the achievement of value for money, good governance, risk management and financial reporting that service users can rely on.

As an Assistant Manager within Public Sector Assurance, you will:

• Help us to make a difference to our public sector clients supporting them to deliver modern public services that are sustainable, people-centred, data-driven and digitally enabled.
• Be part of an exciting client engagement team supporting across our sectors (Local government, Health, Central Government and arms-length bodies) and capabilities (financial reporting assurance services, grants administration, grants compliance, regaining assurance, audit readiness, financial management and delivery, financial planning, governance scrutiny and risk management, internal audit co-sourcing).
• Develop sector and technical knowledge and apply this in the context of real and complex client scenarios.
• Be pivotal in the delivery of engagements with unparalleled insight into our clients’ challenges, regularly liaising with senior stakeholders within our clients.
• Actively listen to others and ask searching questions that challenge thinking beyond immediate concerns and present innovative solutions.
• Identify, suggest and drive practice development initiatives to ensure you are a key part of our growing practice.
• Take personal responsibility and pride towards high quality of assigned deliverables, whilst demonstrating excellent time management and communication skills.
• Contribute to positive morale, enthusiasm and entrepreneurial culture within the team.
• Build a strong network of contacts, both within the firm, with partners and across the public sector.

Joining us as an Assistant Manager, the minimum criteria you'll need is:

• A professional qualification (ACA, ICAS, CA, ACCA or CIPFA). Other professional qualifications will be considered if appropriate.
• Extensive experience of using Microsoft Office applications, in particular PowerPoint and Excel.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, including in a variety of different media.

It would be great if you have some of the following skills:

• Ability to use a framework and methodology-driven approach to identify a root cause, propose an appropriate approach in response, and deliver a solution.
• Understanding of and interest in working in the public sector.
• Ability to carry out robust analysis and interpret the outcomes.
• Ability to provide commercial and strategic thinking to propose new solutions to clients.
• Ability to work with and influence senior stakeholders.
• Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities.

Embracing uniqueness, the culture at Grant Thornton thrives on the contributions of all our people. Building an inclusive culture, where we value difference and respect our colleagues helps our people to perform at the best of their ability and realise their potential. Our open and accessible culture means you’ll interact with leaders who are interested in you and everything you bring to our firm.

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.