Audit Assistant Manager- London

Overview

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Be part of an award nominated Audit team offering great experience, development opportunities and work-life balance in a top 50 Accountancy firm.

Background

An exciting opportunity to join a forward-thinking accountancy practice who look to continually develop their staff. Within this role, you will be an enthusiastic, recently qualified accountant looking for the next steps in your career. Our Assistant Manager role provides exactly that, as we assist you through your career development journey, giving you the necessary skills to progress to Manager level and beyond.

In this role you will perform Audit Senior work on our larger and more complex audits and will take a lead role in both the planning and completion stages and in the management of the audit teams. You will lead these jobs and be given feedback and development points from managers to work towards. You will see many jobs through from start to finish alongside managers and will be involved in closing meetings with client management and those charged with governance, giving you valuable exposure and experience.

You will be closely involved in the training and development of our Trainees and will play a key role in leading and managing them through the engagements they are working on for you.

After a period of time and development as an Assistant Manager, you will be given a small portfolio of your own which will give you the opportunity to develop management skills. Initially, this will run alongside your senior work but as you progress through your development journey, this will shift towards more managerial work with a larger portfolio. This will all be decided in line with your \’People Passport\’ where we talk through our development quadrants to help shape your career.

Responsibilities

Main duties at Senior level within the role

(Note: in addition to these functions employees are required to carry out such other duties as may reasonably be required.)

• Planning, supervising and carrying out audits with turnovers up to £250 million, including specialist audits e.g. FCA regulated entities, pensions. Jobs to be completed with minimal supervision, to deadlines and within budget.
• Supervision and assisting junior staff with technical accounting and auditing problems.
• Preparation of draft statutory accounts and consolidated accounts under both FRS102 and IFRS from clients\’ draft figures.
• Attending and participating in client audit close meetings.
• Drafting recommendations to management following audit fieldwork completion.
• Preparing responses for group reporting for clients where we are the component auditor.
• Larger accounts preparation jobs for audit exempt limited companies, partnerships, LLPs.
• Liaising with the Corporate Business Tax department in relation to the preparation and review of corporation tax computations.

As you progress, your role will develop and your duties will include:

• Operate a small portfolio of audit and accountancy clients, working closely with Audit and Business Advisory partners.
• Being a proactive member of the team and contributing to delivery, training, liaising with other departments.
• Reporting directly to Audit and Business Advisory Partners and liaising with other managers as required both in the Audit Team and across the firm.
• Planning, supervision and review of audit and accounts clients. This includes being the main point of contact for clients, working closely with partners and taking responsibility for each assignment from planning to completion.
• Assisting the Audit Team with technical accounting and auditing issues.
• Actively training staff and contributing to their development. In addition to general queries this may involve presenting to staff or being involved in the development of internal courses.

Tools/Software

• CCH Accounts Production
• CCH ProAudit
• MS Office
• Sage 50
• Quickbooks
• Xero

Any knowledge of other applications such as Alphatax and Inflo would be helpful but not required.

Qualifications

• ACA or ACCA

Experience

Trained within a Chartered Practice and used to dealing with individual and group entities of all sizes. Experience of pension schemes, LLPs and FCA regulated entities is highly desirable. Audit and preparation of accounts with a turnover up to £250 million, including group accounts.

Skills

• A passion to become part of a growing team and help to promote the technical expertise of the team and increase its profile both internally and externally.
• Strong technical knowledge of accounting and auditing standards (knowledge of FRS 105 and FRS 102 required, and knowledge of IFRS desirable).
• Able to communicate confidently and effectively with clients, staff and partners.
• Able to provide on the job training for staff as appropriate.
• Able to multi task.
• Self-starter.
• Hands on and able to get involved in work at all levels

Values and behaviours

Our Values and behaviours are based on

We really want to attract and retain individuals who share our Values:

Together

The firm with the family feel. Express gratitude. Smile. Be humble and confident. Have fun.

Resilient

Change is imminent, and business is imperfect. Be open minded & agile. Assume positive intent and exercise the power of positive thinking.

Understanding

Each individual matters and will be heard and respected. Honesty, integrity, empathy and kindness are fundamental.

Supportive

We support what is important to you and show kindness in our behaviour to each other. We encourage each other to realise our potential.

Thrive!

We strive to be the best, innovate and always do exceptional work. That\\\’s who we are and what our clients deserve.

Mercer & Hole is committed to cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

Our people are our most valuable asset. We bring our life experiences, knowledge, creativity, and talents together at Mercer & Hole making it a unique place to work where all can safely thrive.